Coffee Break with practiCal fMRI

 A new podcast on YouTube

We all know the best science at a conference happens either during the coffee breaks or in the pub afterwards. This being the case, practiCal fMRI and a guest sit down for coffee (or something stronger) to discuss some aspect of functional neuroimaging in what we hope is an illuminating, honest fashion. It's not a formal presentation. It's not even vaguely polished. It’s simply a frank, open discussion like you might overhear during a conference coffee break.

In the inaugural Coffee Break, I sit down with Ravi Menon to discuss two recent papers refuting the existence of a fast neuronal response named DIANA that was proposed in 2022. Ravi was a co-author on one of the two refutations. (The other comes from the lab of Alan Jasanoff at MIT.) We then digress into a brief discussion about the glymphatic system and sleep, and finally some other bits and pieces of shared interest. I've known Ravi for three decades and it's been a couple of years since we had a good natter, so we actually chatted on for another hour after I stopped recording. Sorry you don't get to eavesdrop on that conversation. It was all science, zero gossip and the subject of expensive Japanese whisky versus Scotch and bourbon did not feature, honest guv.

 

All the links to the papers and some items mentioned in our discussion can be found in the description under the video on YouTube. 

What's next for Coffee Break? I have a fairly long list of subject matter and potential guests. I'm hoping to follow some sort of slightly meandering theme, but no promises. I'm also hoping to get new episodes out about once every couple of weeks. But again, no promises.

(PS The series of posts on the core fMRI syllabus will resume shortly with a new branch on biology, starting with basic cell biology.)

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