Neuroscience and Beyond

The episode treats Alzheimer’s as the result of several pressures acting together: genetic background, risk variants, lifestyle, environment, and the ways they overlap.

Professor Nikolai Kokushkin steers the conversation from sea slugs to human kidney cells and into the question of whether memory-like processes reach beyond neurons.

Noise is treated here as more than a nuisance. It is presented as something that shapes sleep, attention, hearing, and even how cities and other places work.

This microscopy discussion stays steady on the core problem: blur at the diffraction limit, and how Markus Sauer gets around it. He lays out D-STORM and the wider super-resolution idea without dressing it up, showing how fluorophores blink on and off, how each signal gets…

The episode treats friendship as a matter of prediction: how the brain tracks what someone else knows, then guesses what they will do next. Dr.

This episode treats connectomics like a real frontier, not a buzzword. It moves from the Human Genome Project comparison into expansion microscopy, molecular barcodes, AAV delivery, and antibody based readout, which gives the piece both stakes and method.

This episode tracks microglia, the brain's immune cells, from cleanup work into development and disease. Dr. Verena Hage handles the basics plainly, then adds the harder point: researchers still do not know when some states help or harm, or how much that turns on the state…