Welcome to a special mini-episode of Neurotransmissions. After our interview with Dr. Ferster, we had and unexpectedly...
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Neurotransmissions: Visual Computation with Dr. David Ferster
The mammalian visual cortex performs important transformations of the information that is transmitted from the eye to the...
Neurotransmissions: Dendrites and Data Sharing with Dr. Karel...
Neurons share information via synapses, but how do scientists? We talk to the distinguished Dr. Karel Svoboda from Janelia...
Neurotransmissions: Get to know your president! –...
Looking inside the brains of translucent amphibians, Dr. Hollis Cline studies the development and plasticity of the visual...
Neurotransmissions: Biology and Sexism – Equality for...
Women are awarded over half of all doctorate degrees in the life sciences, but account for a small fraction of...
Neurotransmissions: The Hedgehog and the Fox –...
What can we learn from studying the vast complexity of wiring in the brain? In this week’s episode, Professor...
Neurotransmissions: Neurons, Astronomy and Superman –...
How do neuroscientists see through layers of grey matter to produce images of cells that are deeply embedded in living...
Neurotransmissions: A Life in Focus: The Journey of Dr. Eric...
From Cornell to Bell Labs and beyond, Eric Betzig spent an entire career trying to see the unseeable. The optics of...
Neurotransmissions: Connectomics – Unraveling a Society of...
Humans have 10 times more neurons in our brain than there are people on the earth, so how do these billions of cells...
Neurotransmissions – Basic Science, the Brain, and Going...
What is basic science, and how is it significant in the realm of brain research and the future progress of our society...