From Our Neurons to Yours

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University, Nicholas Weiler 86 - Sugar on the Brain | Carolyn Bertozzi

This award-winning show from Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute is a field manual for anyone who wants to understand their own brain and the new science reshaping how we learn, age, heal, and make sense of ourselves.

Each episode, host Nicholas Weiler sits down with leading scientists to unpack big ideas from the frontiers of the field—brain-computer interfaces and AI language models; new therapies for depression, dementia, and stroke; the mysteries of perception and memory; even the debate over free will. You’ll hear how basic research becomes clinical insight and how emerging tech might expand what it means to be human. If you’ve got a brain, take a listen.

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From Our Neurons to Yours

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Stimulating the brain with sound | Kim Butts Pauly and Raag Airan

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How to live in a world without free will | Robert Sapolsky

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Seeing sounds, tasting colors: the science of synaesthesia with David Eagleman (re-release)

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