Aug 17, 2024
The most prominent visual characteristic of neurons is their dendrites.
Even more than 100 years after their first observation by Cajal, their function is not fully understood. Biophysical modeling based on cable theory is a key research tool for exploring putative functions, and today’s guest is one the leading...
Aug 3, 2024
The greatest mystery of all is why a group of atoms, like the ones constituting me, can feel anything. The mind-brain problem has puzzled philosophers for millennia.
Thanks to pioneers like Christof Koch, consciousness studies have recently become a legitimate field of scientific inquiry.
In this vintage episode,...
Jul 20, 2024
Computational neuroscientists use many software tools, and NEURON has become the leading tool for biophysical modeling of neurons and neural network.
Today’s guest has been the leading developer of NEURON since the infancy almost 50 years ago.
We talk about how the tool got started and the development up until
Jun 22, 2024
The idea that memories are stored in molecules was popular in the middle of the 20th century. However, since the discovery of long-term potentiation (LTP) in the 1970s, the dominant view has been that our memories are stored in synapses, that is, in the connections between neurons.
Today, there are signs that the...
Jun 8, 2024
Is quantum physics important in determining how living systems, including brains, work?
Today's guest is a professor of molecular genetics at the University of Surrey in England and explores this question in the book “Life at the edge: The coming of age of quantum biology”.
In this “vintage” episode, recorded...