Neuroscience Daily for 29 August: Psilocybin Vision, Alzheimer’s EEG, Brain Research Funding

Neuroscience Daily for 29 August follows 3 stories from r/neuro and r/neuroscience, moving through psilocybin vision, alzheimer’s eeg, brain research funding.

Chapters

• 00:00:00 — Intro
• 00:00:12 — Psilocybin Vision
• 00:01:21 — Alzheimer’s EEG
• 00:02:15 — Brain Research Funding
• 00:03:08 — Closing

1. Psilocybin Vision

This story is about how psilocybin may disrupt visual change detection, in a study posted to bioRxiv. Researchers gave mice psilocybin while they performed a task in which the same image was repeated until a new image appeared, recording activity across visual cortex and identifying cell types with optogenetics.

Source link

Reddit discussion

2. Alzheimer’s EEG

The second item looks at learning Alzheimer’s disease signatures by combining EEG with spiking neural networks and biophysical simulations, in a paper featured on ScienceDirect. The approach connects electrical brain recordings with models designed to mimic how neurons communicate.

Source link

Reddit discussion

3. Brain Research Funding

A third item takes up a YouTube discussion arguing that society is massively underinvesting in research on the human brain. The post points listeners to a video from the Juan Benet Podcast featuring that claim.

Source link

Reddit discussion

That's it for today.