Best Autism Science Foundation Podcasts (2025)

With an eye toward realism, the neuroscientist creates microcosms of the natural world to understand animal behavior, including in a bat study published today.

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Essentials: How Your Brain Functions & Interprets the World | Dr. David Berson 40:39

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In this Huberman Lab Essentials episode, my guest is Dr. David Berson, PhD, a professor of neuroscience at Brown University and an expert on the visual system and circadian biology. We explore how the brain processes visual information, from photons entering the eye to conscious perception in the cortex. We discuss color vision, the discovery of me…

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Gene-activity map of developing brain reveals new clues about autism's sex bias 6:01

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Boys and girls may be vulnerable to different genetic changes, which could help explain why the condition is more common in boys despite linked variants appearing more often in girls.

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Engrams in amygdala lean on astrocytes to solidify memories 6:21

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Disrupting the astrocyte-neuronal dynamic in mice destabilizes their memory of fear conditioning.

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Food for thought: eating our way to a sustainable future 43:58

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Food production drives nearly a third of global greenhouse gas emissions. So how do we help people choose meals that are good for their health, and the planet? Alisha sits down with Professor Pete Scarborough, who’s co-leading research to help decision-makers and the public make better informed choices. We also meet Jo, who’s testing a digital tool…

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Ultra-processed data: the hidden risk AI can’t solve 30:26

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In this episode of the Data Malarkey Podcast, Master Data Storyteller, Sam Knowles, welcomes Kelly Beaver, Chief Executive of Ipsos UK & Ireland, to explore why the data industry is at a crossroads. Kelly shares insights from the Market Research Society’s "Campaign for Better Data" - tackling synthetic data, the risks and benefits of AI to the mark…

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Ant olfactory neurons reveal new 'transcriptional shield' mechanism of gene regulation 5:49

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A protective screen of spurious transcriptional activity enables each olfactory neuron to express exactly one out of hundreds of olfactory receptors.

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548: Dangers Of The Vegan Diet, Glyphosate, And Vaccines With Zen Honeycutt 46:11

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Shots, nutrient-deficient diets, and pesticides are negatively impacting our children's health...and have been for some time. Today, Zen Honeycutt, founder and president of Moms Across America, offers startling insights on the serious damage and repercussions of all of the above. She discusses studies that points to the fact that our children are g…

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Protect & Improve Your Hearing & Brain Health | Dr. Konstantina Stankovic 2:27:57

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My guest is Konstantina Stankovic, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair of Otolaryngology at Stanford School of Medicine. She explains how hearing works and why hearing loss—affecting over 1.5 billion people—impacts people of all ages. We discuss how hearing loss impairs focus and increases the risk of cognitive decline, as well as the role of menopause an…

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New questions around motor neurons and plasticity 10:37

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A researcher's theory hangs muscle degeneration on a broken neural circuit.

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Essentials: Time Perception, Memory & Focus 33:55

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In this Huberman Lab Essentials episode, I explore how biological rhythms and neurochemicals impact our perception of time. I describe how the body aligns with daily and seasonal light cycles to regulate hormones that influence energy, mood and motivation throughout the year. I share science-based tools to enhance focus and productivity, including …

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Problem solving therapy: the answer to youth depression? 33:47

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One year of FlyWire: How the resource is redefining Drosophila research 18:58

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547: Beauty And Heartache On The Homestead With Tara Couture 41:12

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Life is complicated and challenging. There is beauty and heartache...and somehow also beauty IN the heartache. In a timely message, Tara Couture, the author of "Radiance of the Ordinary", communicates how she processes and manages to embrace it all. On Tara's Slowdown Farmstead in Canada, she has dealt with the mundane -- from an ornery cow to issu…

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How to Make Yourself Unbreakable | DJ Shipley 3:42:50

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My guest is DJ Shipley, a retired Tier 1 operator Navy SEAL and now a top public educator on how to build mental and physical health and reach top-level performance in any endeavor. DJ’s life is one marked by extraordinary strivings, wins, setbacks and comebacks that together have shaped his approach to overcoming challenges of all kinds and to dai…

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Neurons fuel lung tumors that have spread to brain 7:07

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Essentials: How Humans Select & Keep Romantic Partners in the Short & Long Term | Dr. David Buss 36:00

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In this Huberman Lab Essentials episode, my guest is Dr. David Buss, PhD, a professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and a pioneer in the field of evolutionary psychology. We explore the science behind human mate selection in both short- and long-term relationships. We discuss universal traits valued in long-term partners along …

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Why we need basic science to better understand the neurobiology of psychedelics 7:13

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Despite the many psychedelics clinical trials underway, there is still much we don't know about how these drugs work. Preclinical studies represent our best viable avenue to answer these lingering questions.

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Zooming in: particle physics and the future of medical imaging 34:09

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Vaccine breakthroughs dominated the news during the Covid-19 pandemic. But they weren’t the only scientific innovations changing how we understood the virus. Across Europe, a team of pathologists, technologists and imaging researchers saw a gap: we needed better technology to see what was really happening inside the lungs of individuals who died af…

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546: Resist Big Tech, Big Pharma, And Government Overreach With Leslie Manookian 42:42

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In April 2025, the Idaho Medical Freedom Act was passed. Leslie Manookian of the Health Freedom Defense Fund crafted the legislation and lobbied for it to become law, in order to protect residents of Idaho from being fired, excluded, or discriminated against for not taking or using a medical intervention. What if you could pass similar legislation …

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Enhance Your Learning Speed & Health Using Neuroscience Based Protocols | Dr. Poppy Crum 2:36:05

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My guest is Dr. Poppy Crum, PhD, adjunct professor at Stanford, former Chief Scientist at Dolby Laboratories and expert in neuroplasticity—our brain’s ability to change in response to experience. She explains how you can learn faster and ways to leverage your smartphone, AI and even video games to do so. We also discuss “digital twins” and the futu…

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Reproducibility is a team sport: Lessons from a large-scale collaboration 7:55

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Building reproducible systems across labs is possible, even in large-scale neuroscience projects. You just need rigor, collaboration and the willingness to look your own practices dead in the eye.

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DAVID SENRA: Daniel Ek, Spotify 2:10:23

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I’m excited to share episode one of a new podcast that I’ve helped create and produce. This new podcast is called David Senra, and it’s hosted by David Senra. For those of you not familiar with David Senra, he is an expert in all things related to greatness. He studies greatness and understands it, mostly in the domain of business but also among cr…

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Essentials: Using Your Nervous System to Enhance Your Immune System 39:16

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In this Huberman Lab Essentials episode, I explain how the immune system defends against infection and describe the relationship between the immune and nervous systems. I discuss the immune system's three primary layers of defense, emphasizing how each contributes to protection from infection. I share practical tools to enhance immune function and …

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Local circuit loops within body control fly behavior, new 'embodied' connectome reveals 5:15

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The mapping, which traces how the central nervous system interacts with the rest of the body, challenges the idea that behavior control is centralized.

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Early warning systems: using tech to predict disease outbreaks 37:36

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By the time we realise an outbreak is underway, the disease is already spreading, and the window to act is closing fast. But what if we could get ahead of it? Over the past decade, scientists and technologists have been developing powerful modelling tools that combine health and climate data to forecast where and when outbreaks might occur. Alisha …

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Startups, philanthropy, billionaires, academia, neuromodulation, psychedelics, AI and new therapies in bipolar, autism, and Parkinson’s with Rob Malenka 1:32:43

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Matias interviews Rob Malenka. In this episode, we discuss: Why progress in psychiatry is slow because the brain is the most complex organ and many disorders are highly heterogeneous The bottlenecks including weak replicability in research, academic politics, perverse incentives, and pharma’s avoidance of neuropsychiatry How breakthroughs require e…

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545: The Nutrient Gap: Why Traditional Diets Nourish Us More With Sally Fallon Morell 35:22

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Traditional diets maximized nutrients. Modern diets minimize them. Our current health crisis stems from our departure from traditional food and health ways – both how we raise our livestock and grow our produce, to what we do to it before it reaches our plate. Sally Fallon Morell, the President and founder of the Weston A. Price Foundation, explain…

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Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras 3:04:11

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My guest is Dr. Bret Contreras, PhD, CSCS, a world-renowned expert on muscle and strength building for women and for men. Bret is known as “the glute guy” for his expertise in helping people build their ideal physique, including how to grow and/or strengthen their gluteus muscles. He explains how to resistance train to improve strength, hypertrophy…

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Beyond Newtonian causation in neuroscience: Embracing complex causality 24:55

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The traditional mechanistic framework must give way to a richer understanding of how brains actually generate behavior over time.

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Autism experts question HHS statements on Tylenol, leucovorin 9:28

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Concerns include the administration's reliance on weak, correlational evidence rather than established research.

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Happy Birthday Simons Searchlight! 44:09

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Essentials: How to Exercise for Strength Gains & Hormone Optimization | Dr. Duncan French 40:02

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In this Huberman Lab Essentials episode, my guest is Dr. Duncan French, PhD, the vice president of performance at the UFC Performance Institute and a world-class performance specialist. We explain how resistance training and acute stress impact hormones and outline specific weight training protocols to increase testosterone to support strength and …

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This paper changed my life: Dan Goodman on a paper that reignited the field of spiking neural networks 4:43

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Friedemann Zenke’s 2019 paper, and its related coding tutorial SpyTorch, made it possible to apply modern machine learning to spiking neural networks. The innovation reinvigorated the field.

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Inclusive research: autism from menstruation to menopause 42:35

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Navigating healthcare can be particularly challenging for autistic people. Reasons for this are complex, but for women and people assigned female at birth, the problem is compounded by a lack of representation in autism research, leaving healthcare services ill-equipped to meet their specific needs. Alisha speaks with Dr Aimee Grant about a groundb…

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First nerve-net connectome shows how evolutionarily ancient nervous system coordinates movement 5:27

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The map of a comb jelly’s aboral nerve net, which helps the animal orient and position itself within the water column, reveals a unique system for sensing the world and coordinating movement.