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Episode 97: February 2025

In this episode we hear about opioid overdoses, a new technique for studying teamwork in animals, making the most of fMRI data, how childhood adversity blunts the fear response in later life, and the neuroscientists looking to link patterns of brain activity to specific thought processes - by performing brain scans on people as they watch movies.
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Episode 97: February 2025
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Chapters

  1. 0:34
    Movies on the mind
    Scanning the brain of someone as they watch a film can help to visualise thought patterns
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  2. 9:41
    Beating drug overdoses
    A drug that does not enter the brain reverses the effect of opioid overdoses in rats
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    • Insight by Jill R Turner, Jocelyn Martin
  3. 17:56
    Better together
    An automated apparatus that rewards marmosets for working together can be used to investigate cooperation
    This chapter is based on the following content
  4. 25:56
    Predicting individual traits
    A new model seeks to determine individual traits from patterns of brain activity
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  5. 33:11
    Facing adversity
    Childhood trauma blunts fear learning later in life
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    • Research Article by Maren Klingelhöfer-Jens, Katharina Hutterer ... Tina B Lonsdorf

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