Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2883: Dead Salmon and Good Statistics
Posted on · Episode: 2883 A dead salmon points the way to better brain imaging. Today, outrageous research.
Posted on · Episode: 2883 A dead salmon points the way to better brain imaging. Today, outrageous research.
Posted on · Episode: 2835 Reverse Engineering the Brain. Today, we look to the brain.
Posted on · Episode: 2821 Science gone wrong: the lobotomy. Today, science gone wrong.
Posted on · Episode: 2802 One Track Mind: the central processing unit of a computer. Today, a one track mind.
Posted on · On Wednesday's show: What STAAR Test results tell us about the pandemic's effect on education, the week in politics, and one way the pandemic might've been good for our brains.
Posted on · We learn about a gathering in Houston of researchers and educators to discuss Braille, the writing system that allows people who are blind to read by touch.
Posted on · A Valentine's music video from Skunk Bear explores the ways your brain and body change when you fall in love — and change again as love deepens and matures
Posted on · Researchers say it takes a lot of brainpower to stop an action, once it's underway. A study found that when people have to change a planned movement, 11 different brain areas have to get involved
Posted on · Dr. Andy Boyd attempts to make sense of that question in his book Beyond Comprehension: A Scientific Look at the Challenge of Knowing Everything.
Posted on · (Above: A researcher studies brain scans of a patient inside an MRI, in a video from Houston Methodist.)Houston Methodist recently conducted a study concerning music's effect on the brain. In the study, the subjects were placed in an MRI machine and exposed to various types of pre-selected music and plain speaking, and then a song […]
Posted on · (Above: Two people hug in an area blocked off by police crime scene tape in Alexandria, Va., after a shooting during a congressional baseball practice June 14, 2017. Photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images) We're learning more about this morning's shooting in Alexandria, Va., during a Republican Congressional baseball practice. Members of Congress and their […]
Posted on · The brain evolved over evolutionary time scales of millions of years. So what's the likelihood that modern experience could have had an impact? Alva Noë says a new study might give the topic light.
Posted on · The annual Neurocritical Care Research Conference takes place on May 13, 2016, at the Texas Medical Center. The conference is focused on research into subarachnoid hemorrhage, a disease that can impact younger adults. To tell us more about it, we talk with Dr. Jose Suarez who heads neurocritical care at Baylor College of Medicine, and […]
Posted on · We learn about research being conducted here in Houston designed to treat people suffering from depression for whom traditional antidepressants and therapy don't seem to work. We discuss what's known as "deep brain stimulation," and why some believe it can succeed where other treatments for depression sometimes fall short.
Posted on · The recent death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has once again raised the specter of addiction. It’s a topic often discussed, but not always well understood. More and more, medical professionals are recognizing addiction as a medical condition. They explain how drugs and alcohol can affect the chemistry in our brains, and how some of […]