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Purpose, Value, Evolution, Consciousness, Sentience, Life & Emergence of Mind | Terrence Deacon
About the Guest: Dr. Terrence Deacon is a neuroscientist and a professor of biological anthropologist at UC-Berkeley and a leading...
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Nov 7, 20221 min read

Neuroscience of Pleasure, Reward, Liking, Wanting, Motivation & Addiction | Kent Berridge
About the Guest: Dr. Kent Berridge is a neuroscientist and professor of psychology & neuroscience at the University of Michigan. Episode...
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Oct 31, 20221 min read

Marijuana, Cognition, Psychosis, Addiction, Cannabinoids, THC, CBD, THCV | Amir Englund | #93
About the Guest: Dr. Amir Englund is a psychopharmacologist at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College,...
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Oct 17, 20221 min read

Diet, Protein, Amino Acids, Fasting, Metabolic Health & Aging | Dudley Lamming | #92
About the Guest: Dr. Dudley Lamming is a molecular physiologist and professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose...
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Oct 10, 20221 min read

Razib Khan: Population Genetics, Personal Genomics, History & Human Evolution | #91
About the Guest: Razib Khan did graduate work in genetics at the University of California-Davis and recently founded a genomics data...
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Oct 7, 20221 min read


Christian Lüscher: How Does Ketamine Work & Is It Addictive? | #90
About the Guest: Christian Lüscher, MD, PhD, a neuroscientist & neurologist at the University of Geneva whose lab studies the cellular...
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Oct 4, 20221 min read


David Anderson: Neuroscience of Aggression, Sex, Behavior, Hormones, Emotion & Consciousness | #89
About the Guest: Dr. David Anderson is a professor at Caltech whose lab studies the neurobiological basis of animal behavior and emotion....
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Sep 28, 20221 min read


Joanna Moncrieff: Depression, Serotonin, SSRIs, Psychiatry & Social Media | #88
About the Guest: Dr. Joanna Moncrieff is a British psychiatrist and academic. She has studied and published widely on the subjects of...
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Sep 20, 20221 min read


Leighton Woodhouse: Sociology, Social Psych, Homelessness, Addiction,Culture,Decline of Civilization
About the Guest: Leighton Woodhouse is a journalist & documentary filmmaker. He writes the Substack, "Social Studies." Episode Summary:...
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Sep 14, 20221 min read


Michael Winkelman: Shamanism, Psychedelics, Social Behavior, Religion & Evolution of Human Culture
About the Guest: Michael Winkelman, PhD is a professor at Arizona State University for many years, where he studied topics related to...
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Sep 14, 20221 min read


Dirk Hoffmeister: Biochemistry of Psilocybin Production, Psychedelic Tryptamines & Magic Mushrooms
About the Guest: Dirk Hoffmeister, PhD is a pharmaceutical microbiologist at the Hans Knoll Institute, in Germany. Professor Hoffmeister...
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Aug 23, 20221 min read


Judith Curry: Climatology, Climate Change, Computer Modeling, Green Energy, Greenhouse Gasses | #84
About the Guest: Judith Curry, PhD is a climatologist and former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia...
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Aug 17, 20221 min read


David Cohen: Prescription Drugs, Psychiatric Medicine, Big Pharma & the Medicalization of Everything
About the Guest: David Cohen, PhD is a professor at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. His research looks at psychoactive drugs...
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Aug 10, 20221 min read

Shruti Naik: Inflammation, Memory, Epigenetics, Skin Health, Stem Cells, Tissue Repair & Cancer
About the Guest: Shruti Naik, PhD is an assistant professor of pathology & medicine at the NYU Langone. Her lab studies the interactions...
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Aug 1, 20221 min read

Margaret McCarthy: Brain Sex Differences, Endocannabinoid Biology, Play Behavior, Cannabis/Pregnancy
About the Guest: Margaret McCarthy, PhD is a neuroscientist whose lab at the University of Maryland studies the origins and mechanisms of...
njikomes
Jul 28, 20221 min read


Matt Ridley: The Origins of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus | #80
About the Guest: Matt Ridley is a prolific science writer whose most recent book, "Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19" was...
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Jul 19, 20221 min read


Sam Banister: Psychedelic Startups, Biotech, Drug Discovery, Psilocybin, DMT, Psychedelics & Society
About the Guest: Sam Banister, PhD is a medicinal chemist and co-founder and Chief Science Officer at Psylo, a biotech startup focused on...
njikomes
Jul 13, 20221 min read


Kevin Mitchell: Nature/Nurture, Genetics, Personality, Autism, Schizophrenia, Synesthesia, Free Will
About the Guest: Kevin Mitchell, PhD is a geneticist & neuroscientist at Trinity College, Dublin. His research has focused on...
njikomes
Jul 7, 20221 min read

Michael Fox: Addiction, Nicotine, Deep Brain Stimulation, Neurotechnology & Parkinson’s Disease
About the Guest: Michael Fox, MD, PhD is a neurologist & neuroscience at Harvard Medical School. Episode Summary: Nick talks to...
njikomes
Jul 6, 20221 min read

Dominic D'Agostino: Metabolism, Fat, Carbs, Protein, Ketogenic Diet, Nutrition, Blood Sugar & Health
About the Guest: Dominic D'Agostino, PhD is a physiologist & neuroscientist. His lab the University of South Florida studies various...
njikomes
Jun 21, 20221 min read
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