Lobes and Robes

About Lobes and Robes

Welcome to Lobes and Robes. Neuroscience for Everyone! Advances in neuroscience have important implications for the development of policies designed to meet looming challenges in health care, aging, education, bioethics, child welfare, environmental, and national security. Furthermore, addiction, violent crime, dementia, and obesity pose threats to our well-being that are unlikely to be addressed effectively without the translation of sound behavioral and neuroscience into effective public policy and law. Lobes and Robes, a new podcast developed by the Department of Neuroscience in cooperation with the School of Public Affairs and the Washington College of Law, brings scientists and policymakers together to address some of the most pressing problems of our time. Lobes and Robes is produced by the American University’s Center for Neuroscience and Behavior in conjunction with the School of Public Affairs and the Washington College of Law. Conversations are led by Colin Saldanha, Director of the Center for Neuroscience & Behavior, and Gustavo Ribeiro, Professor at Washington College of Law.

Publisher

Center for Neuroscience and Behavior

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Feb 2022

Latest episode

28 May 2026

Latest episodes

33 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   28 May 2026

   Anti-Reductionism in Neurolaw (feat. Dr. Dennis M. Patterson)

   In this new episode of Lobes and Robes, we are joined by Dr. Dennis M. Patterson, Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers Law School, to explore the concept of anti-reductionism in neurolaw, the human mind and brain, and the important distinction between conceptual and empirical questions. #LobesAndRobes #Neurolaw #LawAndScience #Podcast

2. 

   14 May 2026

   Gender, Science, and Justice (feat. Dr. Troy Reopke)

   In this new episode of Lobes and Robes, we are joined by Dr. Troy Roepke, Professor at the Department of Animal Sciences at Rutgers University, to explore the harms and legal effects of defining sex as a binary, gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT), sex as a biological variable (SABV), and how gender biases affect scientific research and health outcomes, especially for trans persons and cis-gender women. #LobesAndRobes #Neurolaw #LawAndNeuroscience #LawAndScience

3. 

   30 Apr 2026

   The Neuroscience of Lying (feat. Dr. Christopher Sundby)

   In this new episode of Lobes and Robes, we are joined by Dr. Christopher Sundby, Assistant PRofessor of LAw at the University of Tennessee College of Law, to discuss how neuroscience should be involved in reforming the rules of evidence, the present sense impression rule as a case study for testing psychological assumptions about lying, the possibility that some neurointerventions may reduce the need for imprisonment, and Professor Sundby’s proposed framework for the right to personality regarding neurointerventions in the criminal justice system. #LobesAndRobes #Neurolaw #LawAndNeuroscience #LawAndScience

Who has been a guest on Lobes and Robes

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Gustavo Ribeiro
• Dr Jonathan Tubman
• Dr Adriana Galvan
• Dr. Colin Saldana
• Dr. Deborah Denno

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 26 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

33

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51