Neuroscience: Amateur Hour - Episode 17: Journal Club #1

Episode 17: Journal Club #1

04/21/22 • 36 min

So today's episode is a journal club! Come and listen to get a little taste of what it's like to be in an academic lab!

I will be presenting a paper: Joint coding of visual input and eye/head position in V1 of freely moving mice. It's linked here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.01.478733v1

This episode is structured so that I chat through the paper, citing specific figures and discussing them in detail. Come and listen if you're interested in learning a little bit more about how positional information (where your head and eyes are) is integrated with visual processing in V1 in a freely moving animal.

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Episode 16: The Neuroscience of Mad Cow Disease

When I was a kid, I thought two things were going to be much bigger problems in my life than they actually are - quicksand and mad cow disease.
Turns out that they aren't but mad cow disease is still the stuff of science-fiction nightmares. Mad cow disease is caused by the spread of prions, proteins that weaponize our own cells against us and cause proteins to misfold and aggregate, slowly killing neurons throughout the brain. The disease is characterized by rapid and fatal neurodegeneration.
Want to get the shit scared out of you by learning about the truth behind mad cow disease? Come and listen!
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Citations below:
About BSE BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Published 2019. https://www.cdc.gov/prions/bse/about.html

Legname G. Elucidating the function of the prion protein. True HL, ed. PLOS Pathogens . 2017;13(8):e1006458. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1006458

Jung MJ, Pistolesi D, Panà A. Prions, prion diseases and decontamination. Igiene E Sanita Pubblica . 2003;59(5):331-344. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14981553/

Lanska DJ. The mad cow problem in the UK: risk perceptions, risk management, and health policy development. Journal of Public Health Policy . 1998;19(2):160-183. Accessed April 11, 2022. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9670700/

MRI used to detect vCJD. CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal . 2000;163(3):324. Accessed April 11, 2022. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC80326/

Macfarlane RG, Wroe SJ, Collinge J, Yousry TA, Jäger HR. Neuroimaging findings in human prion disease. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry . 2007;78(7):664-670. doi:10.1136/jnnp.2006.094821

NHS Choices. Overview - Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. NHS. Published 2019. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/creutzfeldt-jakob-disease-cjd/

‌Mead S, Khalili-Shirazi A, Potter C, et al. Prion protein monoclonal antibody (PRN100) therapy for Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease: evaluation of a first-in-human treatment programme. The Lancet Neurology . 2022;21(4):342-354. doi:10.1016/s1474-4422(22)00082-5

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Episode 18: The Neuroscience of Too Much Social Media

Social media is omnipresent. Mindless scrolling through TikTok and Instagram reels is just a part of our daily lives now. Whether it's cat videos, funny dances, or cool outfits, online content fills our excess time, entertains us, and keeps us connected with our friends and the people we look up to. As my housemate says, sometimes, we’re living in the REEL world, not the REAL world.

But it's also no secret that too much social media is not very good for our psyche and our brains. Curious why? Come and listen to learn a little bit more about the neuroscience of spending tooooooo much time on InstaSnapTok.
Please rate, review, and subscribe and if you have any questions, comments, concerns, queries, or complaints, please email me at [email protected] or DM me at NeuroscienceAmateurHour on Instagram.
Citations below:
Börchers S. Your Brain on Instagram, TikTok, & Co – The Neuroscience of Social Media. Published June 29, 2020. https://biologista.org/2020/06/29/your-brain-on-instagram-tiktok-co-the-neuroscience-of-social-media/

Montag C, Markowetz A, Blaszkiewicz K, et al. Facebook usage on smartphones and gray matter volume of the nucleus accumbens. Behavioral Brain Research . 2017;329:221-228. doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2017.04.035

Arias-Carrión O, Stamelou M, Murillo-Rodríguez E, Menéndez-González M, Pöppel E. Dopaminergic reward system: a short integrative review. International Archives of Medicine . 2010;3(1):24. doi:10.1186/1755-7682-3-24

Jan M, Soomro S, Ahmad N. Impact of social media on self-esteem. Ssrn.com. Published August 31, 2017. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3030048

Pittman M, Reich B. Social media and loneliness: Why an Instagram picture may be worth more than a thousand Twitter words. Computers in Human Behavior . 2016;62:155-167. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2016.03.084

Will GJ, Rutledge RB, Moutoussis M, Dolan RJ. Neural and computational processes underlying dynamic changes in self-esteem. FeldmanHall O, ed. eLife . 2017;6:e28098. doi:10.7554/eLife.28098

Cacioppo JT, Cacioppo S. The growing problem of loneliness. The Lancet . 2018;391(10119):426. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(18)30142-9

Chunliang Feng, Li Wang, Ting Li, Pengfei Xu, Connectome-based individualized prediction of loneliness, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience , Volume 14, Issue 4, April 2019, Pages 353–365, https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsz020

Alkozei A, Smith R, Pisner DA, et al. Exposure to Blue Light Increases Subsequent Functional Activation of the Prefrontal Cortex During Performance of a Working Memory Task. Sleep . 2016;39(9):1671-1680. doi:10.5665/sleep.6090

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