345 | Clickbait for Mice and How to Change the Structure of your Brain

28/09/2021 29 min Episodio 578
345 | Clickbait for Mice and How to Change the Structure of your Brain

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Episode Synopsis

Ever see a link on your phone that you just HAVE to click? As it turns out, so do mice! Join hosts Amalie Hutchinson and Laura Muñoz Baena as they chat with aspiring neuroscientist Esmin Unaran and learn about how learning itself can change the structure of your brain. Esmin explains how she uses myelin concentration of mouse brains to study how much they learn using touch-screen operant chambers. Might want to grab yourself a strawberry milkshake before you click "play" on this episode!
To learn more about Erin's research, find her on her Twitter as @esminunaran

Recorded on September 21st, 2021.
Produced by Laura Munoz Baena.
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.

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