“Fifty years ago, biologists were putting together metabolic pathways. That’s what we’re doing now basically with neural circuits. We’re putting together neural circuit pathways.” – Richard Palmiter, PhD Watch Richard talk about the neural circuits underlying the experience of pain, and how his research group is dissecting pain circuits in the brain.
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Recently, we asked a renowned professor in neurobiology, “Why do you feel neural circuits are important to study?” Quick with an answer, he said, “Because everyone else is!” His quip revealed some truth, in that it captured a major ongoing movement in neuroscience. So why are so many neuroscientists now pushing the boundaries to study
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The second video in our Neurovox series is an interview with Bill Martin, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer and Head of R&D at BlackThorn Therapeutics, a venture-backed company that focuses on creating novel therapies for treating neurobehavioral and psychiatric diseases, ranging from Alzheimer’s to schizophrenia. Dr. Martin heads research and development, and has a long history
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When I was a graduate student in the 1990’s, and brave enough to raise my hand after a seminar, I asked the founder of neurophilosophy Patricia Churchland, “If we could record from every synapse of the human brain, would that tell us how consciousness emerges?” At the time, this suggestion bordered on preposterous, but her
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