Best Paul Middlebrooks Podcasts (2025)

Computational neuroscientists rely on simplification when they make their models. But what is the right level of simplification? When should we, for example, use a biophysically detailed model and when a simplified abstract model when modelling neural dynamics? What are the problems of simplifying too much, or too little? This was the topic of the …

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BI 214 Nicole Rust: How To Actually Fix Brains and Minds 1:33:26

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Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists…

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Colin Duffy - 03 - Pentecost 28:46

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BI 213 Representations in Minds and Brains 2:07:09

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Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists…

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Colin Duffy - 02 - Paul and Silas in prison 21:19

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Colin Duffy - 01 - Saint Patrick 32:18

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On whole-cell modeling of bacteria - with Markus Covert - #28 2:04:23

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A future computational neuroscience project could be to model not only the signal processing properties of neurons, but also all processes that keep a neuron alive for, say, a 100-year life span. In 2012 the group of the guest published the first such whole-cell model for a very simple bacterium (M. genitalia). In 2020 a model of the larger E. coli…

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BI 212 John Beggs: Why Brains Seek the Edge of Chaos 1:33:34

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Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists…

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Dr Thomas Middlebrook - 01 - The great imperative 38:11

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Charlie Hail - 02 - What moms need 1:31:08

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BI 211 COGITATE: Testing Theories of Consciousness 1:59:40

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Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists…

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Rev Mark Simmons - 01 - Freedom from your past 45:48

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Pastor Gavin - 01 - Dont forget what you know 26:05

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On construction and clinical use of multipurpose neuron models - with Etay Hay - #27 1:13:21

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Numerous neuron models have been made, but most of them are "single-purpose" in that they are made to address a single scientific question. In contrast, multipurpose neuron models are made to be used to address many scientific questions. In 2011, the guest published a multipurpose rodent pyramidal-cell model which has been actively used by the comm…

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BI 210 Dean Buonomano: Consciousness, Time, and Organotypic Dynamics 1:50:33

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Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Dean Buonomano runs the Buonomano lab at UCLA. Dean was a guest on Brain Inspired way back on episode 18, where we talked about his book Your Brain is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time, which details much of his thought and research about how cen…

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BI 209 Aran Nayebi: The NeuroAI Turing Test 1:43:59

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Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists…

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Lent 2025 - 05 - The way of suffering 33:59

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Lent 2025 - 04 - Facing failure 34:27

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On the population code in visual cortex - with Kenneth Harris - #26 1:24:49

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With modern electrical and optical measurement techniques, we can now measure neural activity in hundreds or thousands of neurons simultaneously. This allows for the investigation of population codes, that is, of how groups of neurons together encode information. In 2019 today’s guest published a seminal paper with collaborators at UCL in London wh…

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BI 208 Gabriele Scheler: From Verbal Thought to Neuron Computation 1:35:08

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Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Gabriele Scheler co-founded the Carl Correns Foundation for Mathematical Biology. Carl Correns was her great grandfather, one of the early pioneers in genetics. Gabriele is a computational neuroscientist, whose goal is to build models of cellular computation, and m…

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Lent 2025 - 03 - Prayer and obedience 29:02

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Lent 2025 - 02 - Preparation and sacrifice 14:06

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BI 207 Alison Preston: Schemas in our Brains and Minds 1:29:47

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Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists…

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Lent 2025 - 01 - Call to discipleship 33:44

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Quick Announcement: Complexity Group 6:47

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Here's the link to learn more and sign up: Complexity Group Email List.By Paul Middlebrooks

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Luke - 06 - Transfiguration 36:12

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On growing synthetic dendrites – with Hermann Cuntz - #25 1:34:34

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The observed variety of dendritic structures in the brains is striking. Why are they so different, and what determine the branching patterns? Following the dictum “if you understand it, you can build it”, the lab of the guest builds dendritic structures in a computer and explore the underlying principles. Two key principles seem to be to minimize (…

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BI 206 Ciara Greene: Memories Are Useful, Not Accurate 1:29:10

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Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Ciara Greene is Associate Professor in the University College Dublin School of Psychology. In this episode we discuss Ciara's book Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember, co-authored by her colleague Gillian Murphy. The book is all about how human ep…

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Luke - 05 - Love your enemies 33:20

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Luke - 04 - Blessings and woes 36:54

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BI 205 Dmitri Chklovskii: Neurons Are Smarter Than You Think 1:39:05

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Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists…

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Luke - 03 - The power of the call 33:51

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Luke - 02 - Jesus driven out of Nazareth 37:22

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On neuroscience foundation models - with Andreas Tolias - #24 1:31:43

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The term “foundation model” refers to machine learning models that are trained on vast datasets and can be applied to a wide range of situations. The large language model GPT-4 is an example. The group of the guest has recently presented a foundation model for optophysiological responses in mouse visual cortex trained on recordings from 135.000 neu…

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BI 204 David Robbe: Your Brain Doesn’t Measure Time 1:37:37

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Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists…

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Luke - 01 - Messiah revealed 28:47

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