From Our Neurons to Yours

From Our Neurons to Yours crisscrosses scientific disciplines to bring you to the frontiers of brain science. Coming to you from the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University, we ask leading scientists to help us understand the three pounds of matter within our skulls and how new discoveries, treatments, and technologies are transforming our relationship with the brain.

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What ChatGPT understands: Large language models and the neuroscience of meaning | Laura Gwilliams
Apr 17, 2025 – 42:31
What the other half of the brain does | Brad Zuchero
Apr 3, 2025 – 35:00
Stimulating the brain with sound | Kim Butts Pauly and Raag Airan
Mar 20, 2025 – 30:43
Does good sleep insulate the brain against Alzheimer's? | Erin Gibson
Mar 6, 2025 – 39:25
How to live in a world without free will | Robert Sapolsky
Dec 5, 2024 – 40:46
The power of psychedelics meets the power of placebo: ketamine, opioids, and hope in depression treatment | Boris Heifets & Theresa Lii
Nov 21, 2024 – 35:10
Seeing sounds, tasting colors: the science of synaesthesia with David Eagleman (re-release)
Nov 7, 2024 – 21:52
The BRAIN Initiative: the national vision for the future of neuroscience is now in doubt | Bill Newsome
Oct 24, 2024 – 39:23
The cannabinoids within: how marijuana hijacks an ancient signaling system in the brain | Ivan Soltesz
Oct 10, 2024 – 37:33
Memory Palaces: the science of mental time travel and the brain's GPS system | Lisa Giocomo (Re-release)
Sep 26, 2024 – 25:50
Why new Alzheimer's drugs don't work | Mike Greicius, Stanford University School of Medicine
Sep 12, 2024 – 25:48
Depression's distinctive fingerprints in the brain | Leanne Williams, Stanford University
Aug 29, 2024 – 28:11
How the brain helps cancers grow | Michelle Monje
Aug 15, 2024 – 21:27
Unraveling Timothy Syndrome: the new science of human brain development | Sergiu Pasca
Aug 1, 2024 – 30:31
How VR could help treat depression with "radical behaviorist" Dr. Kim Bullock
Jul 18, 2024 – 21:36
Electronic skin and the future of wearable technology | Zhenan Bao
Jul 4, 2024 – 23:35
How a new kind of brain plasticity could help make sense of addiction | Michelle Monje and Rob Malenka
Jun 20, 2024 – 22:54
Our plastic brains: learning, memory and aging with the one and only Carla Shatz (Rerelease)
Jun 6, 2024 – 21:56
Programming Announcement
May 30, 2024 – 00:25
Neuroscience and AI: What artificial intelligence teaches us about the brain (and vice versa) | Surya Ganguli
May 23, 2024 – 27:38
How we remember, why we forget | Anthony Wagner
May 16, 2024 – 29:00
Psychedelics Part 2: How do drugs alter our perceptions? | Boris Heifets
May 9, 2024 – 23:36
Psychedelics, placebo, and anesthetic dreams | Boris Heifets (part 1)
May 2, 2024 – 30:27
Why our brains are bad at climate change | Nik Sawe
Apr 25, 2024 – 23:42
Famous & Gravy: Mind Traveler | Oliver Sacks
Mar 14, 2024 – 59:43
The clocks in your body | Tony Wyss-Coray
Mar 7, 2024 – 22:07
Redefining Parkinson's Disease | Kathleen Poston
Feb 29, 2024 – 24:28
Space and Memory | Lisa Giocomo
Feb 22, 2024 – 25:12
OCD & Ketamine | Carolyn Rodriguez
Feb 15, 2024 – 22:41
Why we do what we do | Neir Eshel
Feb 8, 2024 – 22:38
Brain-Machine Interfaces | Jaimie Henderson
Feb 1, 2024 – 22:21
An electrical storm in the brain | Fiona Baumer
Nov 30, 2023 – 19:26
Seeing sound, tasting color | David Eagleman
Nov 16, 2023 – 21:03
Why sleep keeps us young | Luis de Lecea
Nov 9, 2023 – 20:35
Where ant colonies keep their brains | Deborah Gordon
Nov 2, 2023 – 17:48
Why we get dizzy | Kristen Steenerson
Oct 26, 2023 – 17:18
How we understand each other | Laura Gwilliams
Oct 19, 2023 – 22:06
Exercise and the brain | Jonathan Long
Jun 22, 2023 – 22:29
Aging and Brain Plasticity | Carla Shatz
Jun 8, 2023 – 21:22
Brain stimulation & "psychiatry 3.0" | Nolan Williams
May 25, 2023 – 24:52
Brain Fog | Michelle Monje
May 11, 2023 – 20:21
Assembling the brain | Sergiu Pasca
Apr 27, 2023 – 23:24
Parenting Lessons from Frogs and Spiders | Lauren O'Connell
Apr 13, 2023 – 19:20
Virtual Touch | Allison Okamura
Mar 30, 2023 – 19:57
Brain Rejuvenation | Tony Wyss-Coray
Mar 16, 2023 – 16:44
Building a bionic eye | EJ Chichilnisky
Mar 9, 2023 – 17:59
Respect your Biological Clock | Erin Gibson
Mar 2, 2023 – 15:40
Is Addiction a Disease? | Keith Humphreys
Feb 23, 2023 – 10:08
Your gut - the second brain? | Julia Kaltschmidt
Feb 16, 2023 – 14:22
The Octopus Brain | Ernie Hwaun & Matt McCoy
Feb 9, 2023 – 13:42

Recent Reviews

ChrissyFromTheChi

Life-changing

Thank you to the whole From Our Neurons to Yours team!!! So happy I accidentally stumbled upon this podcast searching for answers about brain fog for my Cognitive Psychology class!
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