listen to the episode here;

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This podcast tries to break down the anatomy and biological processes going on inside our brain, and to create a link with real life behaviours, trying to make it understandable to persons with various backgrounds. The host (Ginger Campbell) is a medical doctor not specialized in neuroscience, which makes her question more affordable even for someone with a little knowledge in medicine.

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I choose this podcast because I’m a hard believer that every behavioural dynamic we experience is trackable to a physic change in our brain and knowing in detail what happens biologically can help us solve behavioural problems or enhance our everyday life with certainty.

The episode I listened to is a really interesting one as it talks about the research program of an Edinburgh lab that is studying closely synapses, which are the links that connect our neurons.

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The professor who is leading the research found out that synapses can be of various type, in opposite of what we always taken as granted, and by mapping them into our brain with some brain imaging, we have a better understanding of certain aspect of our life (for example, based on the architecture of the synapsis we can have a good guess on the age, and from here we can study which kind of synapsis resist more to the aging process, and how to develop more of them).

The research is still quite new, so there aren’t been much application of this, an example they refer to is the development of artificial consciousness and neural networks, which have always worked on the old hypothesis that neuron where all connected in the same way.

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In conclusion, it’s a really revolutionary discovery, and personally I’m looking forward to seeing where this could lead us. Maybe in the future we will be able to address and control any kind of “bad behaviours” with medicines that work on this principles or have drugs that permits the development of stronger neurons that resist aging.