What to Gain For Your Brain is a series of podcasts dedicated to understanding vitamin D’s specific effect on the brain in the context of stroke risk and rehabilitation, how implementing small daily lifestyle changes such as maintaining adequate levels of vitamin D can produce beneficial long-term results, and the social and economic factors that may influence stroke risk or vitamin D status. In order to fully understand these relationships, I invite on doctors, research scientists, and community health experts to hear unique perspectives that cannot be easily gained from reading articles.
What to Gain For Your Brain
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What to Gain For Your Brain is a series of podcasts dedicated to understanding vitamin D’s specific effect on the brain in the context of stroke risk and rehabilitation, how implementing small daily lifestyle changes such as maintaining adequate levels of vitamin D can produce beneficial long-term results, and the social and economic factors that may influence stroke risk or vitamin D status. In order to fully understand these relationships, I invite on doctors, research scientists, and community health experts to hear unique perspectives that cannot be easily gained from reading articles.
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April 24, 2021
How to Implement Long-Term Healthy Changes in Communities feat. Elizabeth Velten
<p>Elizabeth is the Senior Director of Community Impact & Policy and the Government Relations Director for the American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association, as well as a Pomona College alumnus. In this episode we discuss where life took her after college, her many years working in various labs at Yale, staying true to herself while seeking opportunities after graduating, and what it’s like working with non-profits and corporate partners. We also talk about how she helped get In-N-Out to sell milk and why, how to get people to maintain long-term change, and the intersections between structural racism and health.</p>
April 24, 2021
Neurochemicals and Ecological Validity feat. Dr. Paul Zak
<p>Dr. Zak is the Chief Immersion Officer and Founder of Immersion, a neuroscience platform that turns signals from the peripheral nervous system and the brain into algorithms to accurately predict individual decisions and market outcomes. Additionally, he is the founding Director of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies and Professor of Economics, Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University. In this episode, we discuss his over 20 years of peer-reviewed research with funding from the CIA and The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to investigate the role that the neurochemical oxytocin has on human behavior and how the platform Immersion works. We also discuss taking neuroscience outside of the lab, the reliability of self-reporting, why studying neurochemicals is important, and the biological basis for the golden rule, “If you’re nice to me, I’m nice to you.”</p> <p>Immersion (<a href="http://getimmersion.com/">getimmersion.com</a>) </p>
April 23, 2021
Vitamin D and Individualized Stroke Rehabilitation feat. Dr. Amy Zheng
<p>Dr. Zheng is currently a research scientist at Casa Colina Hospital and Centers for Healthcare in Pomona, CA as well as the chief science officer for a precision medicine startup called Strain Genie which uses your DNA to inform you on health and wellness tips. Her current research focuses on using neuromodulatory interventions such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and neurofeedback to understand the recovery of language and cognitive function after stroke. In this episode, we discuss why the cerebellum should be getting more credit, her work in creating more individualized rehabilitation for stroke patients, how to tackle confounding factors as a researcher, what to be careful about with vitamin D supplementation, life advice you won’t hear anywhere else, and how Strain Genie uses your DNA to recommend strains of cannabis.</p> <p>Strain Genie (<a href="https://straingenie.com/">https://straingenie.com/</a>)</p> <p>Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (<a href="https://maps.org/">https://maps.org/</a>)</p> <p>Johns Hopkins Psychedelic Research (<a href="https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/psychiatry/research/psychedelics-research.html">https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/psychiatry/research/psychedelics-research.html</a>)</p> <p>Ly et al. (2018) Psychedelics Promote Structural and Functional Neuroplasticity (<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6082376/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6082376/</a>)</p>
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