028: Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain Scans and ADHD with Monica Rosenberg

01/18/16 • 25 min

Monica Rosenberg is a graduate student in the Department of Psychology at Yale University. Monica discusses how applying cognitive neuroscience research can help identify and treat disorders like ADHD. She expands on how ability to sustain attention varies widely across individuals and researchers lack a standardized way to measure it. Monica dives deeper into her groups recent work introducing a new fMRI measure of sustained attention based on patterns of functional connectivity, or correlated activity across the brain.

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027: The Undersea Internet Network with Dr. Starosielski

Dr. Nicole Starosielski is the author of "The Undersea Network," a book on the undersea cable systems that carry almost all transoceanic internet traffic today. She discusses the history of the network and how it was started and how it developed into what it is today. Dr. Starosielski discusses the technology behind the network and why it is being used today. She also dives deeper into other factors such as security, longevity and reliability of the network and its future.

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029: Brain 'Zaps' to Improve Language, Cognition & Motor Abilities with Dr. Mehta

Dr. Jyutika Mehta is an associate professor at Texas Woman’s University and directs Neurophysiology lab in the department of Communication Science & Disorders. Her primary research interests are to study speech and language representation in normal and disordered brains.