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A scientific journal club podcast

09/12/2021

A review on the current evidence supporting therapeutic ketamine in treatment resistant depression - Ep.9

On today's episode, we discuss a paper entitled: "Synthesizing the Evidence for Ketamine and Esketamine in Treatment-Resistant Depression: An International Expert Opinion on the Available Evidence and Implementation". Check it out if you're interested to learn more about the efficacy of ketamine in treatment-resistant depression.
08/22/2021

Vegetarian diet and depression scores: A meta-analysis - Ep.8

On today's episode, we discuss a paper entitled: "Vegetarian diet and depression scores: A meta-analysis". Check it out if you're interested to learn more about how a vegetarian diet can impact a person's mood and likelihood of developing depression.
08/21/2021

Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from COVID-19 - Ep.7

On today's episode, we discuss a paper entitled: "Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from COVID-19". Check it out if you're interested to learn more about the potential effects of "long COVID".
08/19/2021

Short breathing workouts lower casual blood pressure - Ep.6

On today's episode, we discuss a paper entitled: "Time-Efficient Inspiratory Muscle Strength Training Lowers Blood Pressure and Improves Endothelial Function, NO Bioavailability, and Oxidative Stress in Midlife/Older Adults with Above-Normal Blood Pressure". Check it out if you are interested in how breath training can be used to help keep older hearts healthy!
08/11/2021

Rats can imagine a light is present when it is visually occluded, and this is driven by a model-based top-down process rather than a bottom-up model-free process - Ep.5

On today's episode, we discuss a paper entitled: "Imagine That! Cue-Evoked Representations Guide Rat Behavior During Ambiguous Situations". Check it out if you are interested in the neural underpinnings of how rodents imagine objects they can not immediately see!
08/11/2021

Methodology over metrics: Current scientific standards are a disservice to patients and society - Ep.4

On today's episode, we discuss a preprint entitled: "Methodology over metrics: Current scientific standards are a disservice to patients and society". Check it out if you are interested in metascience and how perverse incentives in academia hurt the global scientific community.
07/14/2021

Inducing limb regeneration in different animals, including mammals - Ep.3

On today's episode, we discuss a preprint entitled: "A conserved strategy for inducing appendage regeneration". Check it out if you are interested in regenerative medicine and the beginnings of artificially induced limb regeneration.
06/04/2021

Neurons in the mouse brain correlate with cryptocurrency price: a cautionary tale - Ep.2

In this episode of Replicons, we discuss a satirical pre-print heralding the association between neuron activation in mice and cryptocurrency prices. This paper was published to poke fun at a neuroscience methodology that has the potential to produce false-positive results.

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2021
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