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• January 2008 to current broadcast

  • • October 2009:

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      How sleep deprivation affects your memory, teaching mice to play video games in the name of neuroscience, the evolution of the human cerebral cortex, and how different two brains can be, and still perform the same task.

    • September 2009:

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      The plus-sides and pitfalls of genome-wide association studies, mitigating stroke by knocking out a key protein, gene therapy for colour blindness, and a test of awareness in minimally conscious patients.

    • August 2009:

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      A class of genes that jump around the genomes of brain cells, a challenge to the 'use it or lose it' theory of neuronal connections, how the brain processes faces and a brain mapping anniversary.

    • July 2009:

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      How immune cells get through the blood-brain barrier, the brains of elite athletes, the structure of a curious set of receptors, and the genes behind an aggressive brain cancer.

    • June 2009:

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      How what you look for biases what you see, using magnetic stimulation for research and treatment, mouse 'assault courses', and how the brain replays memories any chance it gets.

    • May 2009:

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      How the brain responds to stress, cultured birds, how Flores man ended up with a tiny brain, and learning about speech from nonhuman primates.

    • April 2009:

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      Light-activated neurons make waves, new genetic candidates for autism, the first Nobellist to turn one hundred, and emotions in man and machines.

    • March 2009:

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      Forming first impressions, how to make dopamine neurons, the function of brain waves and how fruitflies know which way is up.

    • February 2009:

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      AI for the office, decoding visual memory, a rough guide to glia, Darwin and the birth of child psychology.

    • January 2009:

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      Fifty years of pheromones, neuronal networking, a misleading impression from brain imaging, and how light sleep could be making you forgetful.

    • December 2008:

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      In this month's show, Kerri finds out why researchers are studying slumbering flies, looks back on the life of famous amnesiac patient HM, finds a load of brain proteins whose function is changed by adding fat, and takes a tour of a brain bank in London.

    • November 2008:

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      This month's show is packed full of highlights of the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington, DC. Discover why neuroscientists are interested in carbon nanotubes, how to do neuroscience for under $100, and how a patient with locked-in syndrome has been able to produce speech.

    • October 2008:

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      Kerri Smith discovers how monkeys have regained movement in paralysed limbs, finds out how the brain is affected by steroids, hunts out two new Alzheimer's disease targets and reports back from a meeting on autism.

    • September 2008:

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      The psychology of the credit crunch, drugs versus cognitive therapy for depression, how deaf people can retain speech and an unusual play with a neuroscience theme.

    • August 2008:

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      Magic and neuroscience, fairness and egalitarianism in children, low-fat mice, and the ultimate selfish genes.

    • July 2008:

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      Sleep deprivation and false memories, virtual reality drug dens, electrical harmony in the brain, and more highlights of the FENS meeting in Geneva.

    • June 2008:

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      New genetic mutations and schizophrenia, language and human nature, the cortex in Tourette syndrome, the genes that maketh man.

    • May 2008:

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      Our musical minds, a monkey model of Huntington's disease, how we speak and listen at the same time, and the challenge of free will.

    • April 2008:

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      Risky decision-making, high-res working memory, the genetics of stress and anxiety, and the teenage brain.

    • December 2007:

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      This month, Kerri Smith reports from a brain imaging conference in London, discovers a protein that triggers aggression in male mice, bisexual flies reveal how the brain controls behaviour, and we learn why exercise is good for the brain as well as the body

    • SFN Special:

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      In this special issue of NeuroPod, Kerri Smith brings you the best of the Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego, California. Find out what computers can do for brains, find two ways to zoom in on pain, hear some of the most quickfire conference presentations ever, and discover what the Rolling Stones were doing at the meeting. [48kbps mp3]

    • November 2007:

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      This month, we see the brain in glorious Technicolor, discover how the brain controls optimism, hear about an on-off switch for mice, and debate the 'hash realities' of cannabis. [48kbps mp3]

    • October 2007:

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      We investigate how brain research is changing the face of warfare, what brain imaging really tells us, anaesthetics that don't cause paralysis, and learning under stress. [48kbps mp3]

    • October 2006:

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      Kerri Smith explores the latest neuroscience research from Nature: untangling autism, slimming down obesity, getting emotional about memories, multipurpose ion channels, and neuroeconomics. [48kbps mp3]