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Nicole Rust on how understanding brains as complex dynamical systems will help us accelerate treatments for brain disorders.
Show notes: braininspired.co/podcast/214
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Elusive Cures: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders―and How We Can Change That. Nicole Rust runs the Visual Memory laboratory at UPenn, University of Pennsylvania. Her interests have expanded now to include mood and feelings, as you'll hear. And she wrote this book, which contains a plethora of ideas about how we can pave a way forward in neuroscience to help treat mental and brain disorders. We talk about a small plethora of those ideas from her book. which also contains the story partially which will hear of her own journey in thinking about these things from working early on in visual neuroscience to where she is now.
0:00 - Intro
6:12 - Nicole's path
19:25 - The grand plan
25:18 - Robustness and fragility
39:15 - Mood
49:25 - Model everything!
56:26 - Epistemic iteration
1:06:50 - Can we standardize mood?
1:10:36 - Perspective neuroscience
1:20:12 - William Wimsatt
1:25:40 - Consciousness
Nicole Rust on how understanding brains as complex dynamical systems will help us accelerate treatments for brain disorders.
Show notes: braininspired.co/podcast/214
Patreon (full episodes and Discord community): patreon.com/braininspired
Apple podcasts: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/brain-inspired/id1428880766?mt=2
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/2UZj8c8Ap5oc2gh2rJxLLe
The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists.
Read more about our partnership: thetransmitter.org/partners
Check out this story:
What, if anything, makes mood fundamentally different from memory? thetransmitter.org/the-big-picture/what-if-anything-makes-mood-fundamentally-different-from-memory
Sign up for the “Brain Inspired” email alerts to be notified every time a new “Brain Inspired” episode is released: thetransmitter.org/newsletters
To explore more neuroscience news and perspectives, visit thetransmitter.org.
Elusive Cures: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders―and How We Can Change That. Nicole Rust runs the Visual Memory laboratory at UPenn, University of Pennsylvania. Her interests have expanded now to include mood and feelings, as you'll hear. And she wrote this book, which contains a plethora of ideas about how we can pave a way forward in neuroscience to help treat mental and brain disorders. We talk about a small plethora of those ideas from her book. which also contains the story partially which will hear of her own journey in thinking about these things from working early on in visual neuroscience to where she is now.
0:00 - Intro
6:12 - Nicole's path
19:25 - The grand plan
25:18 - Robustness and fragility
39:15 - Mood
49:25 - Model everything!
56:26 - Epistemic iteration
1:06:50 - Can we standardize mood?
1:10:36 - Perspective neuroscience
1:20:12 - William Wimsatt
1:25:40 - Consciousness
