Sound Science Podcast with Dr. Yewande Pearse

Born and bred in North London, Dr Yewande Pearse completed her PhD in Neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry, London in 2016. She is now based in Los Angeles, where she works as a Research Fellow, developing a stem cell therapy treatment for a rare childhood brain disease. Outside of the lab, Yewande is a writer for Massive Science – an online science media platform, and a TEDMED Research Scholar for this year’s Stage Programme. Born of a mutual love of science and music, Yewande believes that science is for everyone. Sound Science is a monthly podcast about the science stories that affect our lives and in some way relate to music. With the help of guest experts in the field and a carefully selected sound track curated to the theme of the scientific topic, Yewande brings you stories that will make you hear science differently. Yasmin Shamir: A natural-born creative with a passion for communication, Yasmin expresses through many mediums. Thanks to a career in music, traveling became a big part of Yasmin’s story, leading her to co-found Trippin alongside Kesang Ball and Sam Blenkinsopp in 2017. Trippin has since become a leading travel and culture platform focused on amplifying local voices and creating powerful content that inspires its audience to travel more purposefully. Yasmin relocated to Mexico in 2018 and has been involved in various community projects from health and fitness, to music, art, and spirituality, pursuing her passion to connect people with things that make them feel good. As a person of dual heritage, Yasmin explores cultural practices with sincerity. Celebrating the diversity of human experience and seeking common threads that unite us all, she sees Roots & Ritual as an opportunity to take listeners on a journey, introducing them to people, places, and practices that have much to teach us, if we’re willing to listen. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sound-science-dr-yewande/support

This episode is all about plants, and the art practices that help us to connect with them. Millennials are obsessed with house plants, driven in large part by an interest in self-care and wellness. Plants are good for our mental health, and thanks to social media, they’ve become increasingly desirable for their aesthetic. However, what we tend to forget is that making us feel better, and livening up our urban dwellings is the least they do for us. Plants provide the core basis for life on Earth. Without them, we wouldn’t be able to breathe, and we’d have nothing to eat. Despite how essential they are to our survival, we take them for granted. In this episode, we explore how turning plants into art, can help us to develop a deeper understanding and empathy toward them. Bio: Alice Yuan Zhang is a mixed reality artist, designer, and program organizer. Her work bridges the sacredness of natural environments with the speculative power of human-made ones, inviting exploration into interspecies empathy, generative networks, and the illusion of agency. She is the co-organizer of virtual care lab, a current resident artist at CultureHub, and an involved member of NAVEL. Alice studied at the University of California, Berkeley. Alexander Kaye is an artist born near Detroit Michigan and currently residing in Los Angeles California. His practice began in writing and producing music and has since expanded into sound and visual art. He creates experimental music with modular synthesis, field recordings, audio manipulation, chance/aleatoric techniques, and traditional instrumentation. Often finding creative guidance through random operations, he embraces unknown variables as part of the process that influences all of his work. Adrienne Adar is a sound artist and photographer based in Los Angeles. She creates interactive work, often incorporating living plants and technology in site-specific installations. Adar animates plants with sound, seeking to activate unexpected connections to the natural environment. Adar received her MFA from NYU/International Center of Photography and studied at the Slade School of Art, London. Her work has been shown in Los Angeles, New York, Wyoming, London, and Seoul, Korea, as well as Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin, China. She is a participating organizer of High Desert Test Sites in Joshua Tree, CA and a member of the Southern California Succulent Society. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sound-science-dr-yewande/support

Born and bred in North London, Dr Yewande Pearse completed her PhD in Neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry, London in 2016. She is now based in Los Angeles, where she works as a Research Fellow, developing a stem cell therapy treatment for a rare childhood brain disease. Outside of the lab, Yewande is a writer for Massive Science – an online science media platform, and a TEDMED Research Scholar for this year’s Stage Programme. Born of a mutual love of science and music, Yewande believes that science is for everyone. Sound Science is a monthly podcast about the science stories that affect our lives and in some way relate to music. With the help of guest experts in the field and a carefully selected sound track curated to the theme of the scientific topic, Yewande brings you stories that will make you hear science differently. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sound-science-dr-yewande/support

Born and bred in North London, Dr Yewande Pearse completed her PhD in Neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry, London in 2016. She is now based in Los Angeles, where she works as a Research Fellow, developing a stem cell therapy treatment for a rare childhood brain disease. Outside of the lab, Yewande is a writer for Massive Science – an online science media platform, and a TEDMED Research Scholar for this year’s Stage Programme. Born of a mutual love of science and music, Yewande believes that science is for everyone. Sound Science is a monthly podcast about the science stories that affect our lives and in some way relate to music. With the help of guest experts in the field and a carefully selected sound track curated to the theme of the scientific topic, Yewande brings you stories that will make you hear science differently.

Born and bred in North London, Dr Yewande Pearse completed her PhD in Neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry, London in 2016. She is now based in Los Angeles, where she works as a Research Fellow, developing a stem cell therapy treatment for a rare childhood brain disease. Outside of the lab, Yewande is a writer for Massive Science – an online science media platform, and a TEDMED Research Scholar for this year’s Stage Programme. Born of a mutual love of science and music, Yewande believes that science is for everyone. Sound Science is a monthly podcast about the science stories that affect our lives and in some way relate to music. With the help of guest experts in the field and a carefully selected sound track curated to the theme of the scientific topic, Yewande brings you stories that will make you hear science differently.

Born and bred in North London, Dr Yewande Pearse completed her PhD in Neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry, London in 2016. She is now based in Los Angeles, where she works as a Research Fellow, developing a stem cell therapy treatment for a rare childhood brain disease. Outside of the lab, Yewande is a writer for Massive Science – an online science media platform, and a TEDMED Research Scholar for this year’s Stage Programme. Born of a mutual love of science and music, Yewande believes that science is for everyone. Sound Science is a monthly podcast about the science stories that affect our lives and in some way relate to music. With the help of guest experts in the field and a carefully selected sound track curated to the theme of the scientific topic, Yewande brings you stories that will make you hear science differently.

Born and bred in North London, Dr Yewande Pearse completed her PhD in Neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry, London in 2016. She is now based in Los Angeles, where she works as a Research Fellow, developing a stem cell therapy treatment for a rare childhood brain disease. Outside of the lab, Yewande is a writer for Massive Science – an online science media platform, and a TEDMED Research Scholar for this year’s Stage Programme. Born of a mutual love of science and music, Yewande believes that science is for everyone. Sound Science is a monthly podcast about the science stories that affect our lives and in some way relate to music. With the help of guest experts in the field and a carefully selected sound track curated to the theme of the scientific topic, Yewande brings you stories that will make you hear science differently.

Born and bred in North London, Dr Yewande Pearse completed her PhD in Neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry, London in 2016. She is now based in Los Angeles, where she works as a Research Fellow, developing a stem cell therapy treatment for a rare childhood brain disease. Outside of the lab, Yewande is a writer for Massive Science – an online science media platform, and a TEDMED Research Scholar for this year’s Stage Programme. Born of a mutual love of science and music, Yewande believes that science is for everyone. Sound Science is a monthly podcast about the science stories that affect our lives and in some way relate to music. With the help of guest experts in the field and a carefully selected sound track curated to the theme of the scientific topic, Yewande brings you stories that will make you hear science differently. On this episode of Sound Science, Dr Yewande was joined by Dr. David Bashwiner.

It is hard to escape the global uncertainty, fear and anxiety in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, while this is a sobering moment for humanity, it is a catalyst for bringing out the best of humanity also. Our capacity for problem solving is incredible, especially when it comes to science. However, the bottom line is that science doesn’t produce answers overnight. All we have at the moment are expert opinions and single studies that have not yet gone through the usual vigorous process of peer review. The CDC and the WHO have the most up to date reliable information, but some of the research that has not ended up on those websites, is still certainly worth thinking about critically.On this special bonus episode of Sound Science, Immunologist Dr. Azza Gadir explains the immunologic progression of disease after getting infected with COVID-19, the latest research into whether or not we can acquire immunity to COVID-19 and how to test for it, and what we need to keep in mind when reading about all the science. .Bio: Dr. Azza Gadir got her Masters in the Immunology of Infectious Disease and her PhD in Immunology from University College London and spent 8 years at Harvard University working on the immunology of food allergy and role of the gut microbiome in the pathogenesis of disease. She is now head of R&D at SEED, A microbial sciences company pioneering applications of bacteria to improve human and environmental health.Links:Clinical characteristics of the recovered COVID-19 patients with re-detectable positive RNA testAntibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 in COVID-19 patients: the perspective application of serological tests in clinical practiceCenters for Disease Control and preventionWorld Health OrganizationAbout Dr. Yewande Pearse: Born and bred in North London, Dr. Yewande Pearse completed her PhD in Neuroscience at King's College London in 2016. She is now based in Los Angeles, where she works as a Research Fellow, developing a stem cell therapy treatment for a rare childhood brain disease. Outside of the lab, Yewande is a collaborator of Science Gallery Detroit, sits on the Programming Committee Spring/Summer 2019 at Navel Los Angeles, and was a TEDMED  Research Scholar for the 2018 Stage Program. Yewande also writes for Massive, an online science media platform.Sound Science Podcast is produced by dublab. Please visit dublab.com to find out more!

On today's show, we delve into the hidden frequencies of the natural world with artist and ecologist Jana Winderen, and explore what capturing these secret sounds can tell us about the environment. Jana has an impressive body of work. You can find more of her audio-visual works on Touch Radio and her latest release, Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone, can be purchased on Bandcamp. Bio: Jana Winderen is an artist educated in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London with a background in mathematics, chemistry and fish ecology from the University of Oslo. Jana focuses her work around audio environments and ecosystems which are hard for humans to access, both physically and aurally. Amongst her activities are immersive multi-channel sound installations and concerts, which have been performed internationally in major institutions and public spaces in America, Europe, and Asia. Winderen lives and works in Oslo. About Dr. Yewande Pearse: Born and bred in North London, Dr. Yewande Pearse completed her PhD in Neuroscience at King's College London in 2016. She is now based in Los Angeles, where she works as a Research Fellow, developing a stem cell therapy treatment for a rare childhood brain disease. Outside of the lab, Yewande is a collaborator of Science Gallery Detroit, sits on the Programming Committee Spring/Summer 2019 at Navel Los Angeles, and was a TEDMED  Research Scholar for the 2018 Stage Program. Yewande also writes for Massive, an online science media platform. Sound Science Podcast is produced by dublab. Please visit dublab.com to find out more!

This month we take a microscopic look at Organoids, tiny self-organized, three-dimensional tissue cultures that are derived from stem cells. Specifically, we identify how they can be used to make a “mini inner-ear” as well as how they are assisting scientists to better understand inner ear disease.   For a closer look, please visit a study published by Karl R Khoehler et al., 2017 in Nature Biotechnology. About Dr. Yewande Pearse: Born and bred in North London, Dr. Yewande Pearse completed her PhD in Neuroscience at King's College London in 2016. She is now based in Los Angeles, where she works as a Research Fellow, developing a stem cell therapy treatment for a rare childhood brain disease. Outside of the lab, Yewande is a collaborator of Science Gallery Detroit, sits on the Programming Committee Spring/Summer 2019 at Navel Los Angeles, and was a TEDMED  Research Scholar for the 2018 Stage Program. Yewande also writes for Massive, an online science media platform. Sound Science Podcast is produced by dublab. Please visit dublab.com to find out more!

This episode is all about how we perceive sound. Join us as we explore what science has found out about the neurological, psychological, and physiological effects of sound on the body. Our guest this month producer and DJ, Slow Like Whoa, explains how a deeper understanding of the science of sound has helped her creative process as well as the way she connects with both her work and an audience.   About Slow Like Whoa: By way of the farthest nebula to the left, Slow Like Whoa is a DJ and emcee who’s landed in Los Angeles, but has traveled sonically around the globe. Her introduction to blending energies began with one on one instruction by universally renowned DJ and Scratch Academy Director, DJ Hapa. Although primarily influenced by the boom bap of hip hop, she emits frequencies that transcend any one genre; merging Dancehall, Psychedelic, Funk and R&B.   Whoa explores rhythm and energy between the digital and physical realms by building futuristic soundscapes with high energy vibrations, samples from her favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy movies and live mash-up’s.Known for her magnetic energy and infectious frequency, she has worked with a wide array of artists - from DaniLeigh to Kelis and companies in a variety of fields such as Champion, DollsKill, UTMOST, i3 Arts Festival, Complexcon, MTV, TheBasement and Lululemon. About Dr. Yewande Pearse: Born and bred in North London, Dr. Yewande Pearse completed her PhD in Neuroscience at King's College London in 2016. She is now based in Los Angeles, where she works as a Research Fellow, developing a stem cell therapy treatment for a rare childhood brain disease. Outside of the lab, Yewande is a collaborator of Science Gallery Detroit, sits on the Programming Committee Spring/Summer 2019 at Navel Los Angeles, and was a TEDMED  Research Scholar for the 2018 Stage Program. Yewande also writes for Massive, an online science media platform. Sound Science Podcast is produced by dublab. Please visit dublab.com to find out more!

Today, we look back over the last nine episodes, from the science of heartbreak and grief to neuroscience-inspired personalized soundscapes that help you focus and sleep. We’ve had some incredible neuroscientists, psychologists, dancers, musicians, DJ's and artists on the show, have a browse over the previous show notes to learn more about them. About Dr. Yewande Pearse: Born and bred in North London, Dr. Yewande Pearse completed her PhD in Neuroscience at King's College London in 2016. She is now based in Los Angeles, where she works as a Research Fellow, developing a stem cell therapy treatment for a rare childhood brain disease. Outside of the lab, Yewande is a collaborator of Science Gallery Detroit, sits on the Programming Committee Spring/Summer 2019 at Navel Los Angeles, and was a TEDMED  Research Scholar for the 2018 Stage Program. Yewande also writes for Massive, an online science media platform. Sound Science Podcast is produced by dublab. Please visit dublab.com to find out more!

This month, Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence collide, as we explore how better understanding the brain has advanced AI technology and vice versa. We are joined by Oleg Stavitsky, CEO and Founder of Endel, a new technology that generates reactive, personalized soundscapes to promote things like focus, relaxation and sleep. It takes in data like your location, time, and the weather to create unique ambient sounds on the spot. CEO and Co-Founder of Endel, Oleg Stavitsky, innovates at the intersection of technology, art, and nature. Endel generates personalized adaptive environments, designed to make you focus faster, stay in the zone for longer periods of time and relax better. About Dr. Yewande Pearse: Born and bred in North London, Dr. Yewande Pearse completed her PhD in Neuroscience at King's College London in 2016. She is now based in Los Angeles, where she works as a Research Fellow, developing a stem cell therapy treatment for a rare childhood brain disease. Outside of the lab, Yewande is a collaborator of Science Gallery Detroit, sits on the Programming Committee Spring/Summer 2019 at Navel Los Angeles, and was a TEDMED Research Scholar for the 2018 Stage Program. Yewande also writes for Massive, an online science media platform. Sound Science Podcast is produced by dublab. Please visit dublab.com to find out more!

There is a whole field of study called music psychology, which brings psychology and musicology together to answer questions about how we create, perceive and respond to music. In this month's episode, we try to get to the heart of why music elicits emotion. It’s a big topic that we'll keep coming back to but in this week's show, we focus on how the brain's ability to make predictions about what we hear might explain how musical sounds become rewarding. Dr. Sophie Mort AKA Dr Soph explains why listening to music that was played a lot during an important period in our life can trigger a deeply nostalgic emotional response and how our human capacity and inclination to synchronize our body movement to music makes us feel good. She also explains how music is a language of emotion that some people feel more comfortable using to express how they are feeling, and the idea of emotional contagion which describes the phenomenon where perceiving an emotion can sometimes induce the same emotion.  Dr Sophie Mort is a Clinical Psychologist, Life Coach and Yoga Teacher. She has a Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and a Masters in Neuroscience. She is on on a mission to get evidence-based psychology out of the therapy room and into people's lives. She offers private psychological therapy and life coaching online to people all over the world. She also shares her psychological understanding and advice on social media. Find out more about her on Drsoph.com. About Dr. Yewande Pearse: Born and bred in North London, Dr. Yewande Pearse completed her PhD in Neuroscience at King's College London in 2016. She is now based in Los Angeles, where she works as a Research Fellow, developing a stem cell therapy treatment for a rare childhood brain disease. Outside of the lab, Yewande is a collaborator of Science Gallery Detroit, sits on the Programming Committee Spring/Summer 2019 at Navel Los Angeles, and was a TEDMED Research Scholar for the 2018 Stage Program. Yewande also writes for Massive, an online science media platform. Sound Science Podcast is produced by dublab. Please visit dublab.com to find out more!

Inspired by Massive Science's Science Hero Series, this episode features some of our favorite women in science. Resources: Massive Science, Janaki Ammal, Annie Easley, Wang Zhenyi, Marie Curie About Dr. Yewande Pearse: Born and bred in North London, Dr. Yewande Pearse completed her PhD in Neuroscience at King's College London in 2016. She is now based in Los Angeles, where she works as a Research Fellow, developing a stem cell therapy treatment for a rare childhood brain disease. Outside of the lab, Yewande is a collaborator of Science Gallery Detroit, sits on the Programming Committee Spring/Summer 2019 at Navel Los Angeles, and was a TEDMED Research Scholar for the 2018 Stage Program. Yewande also writes for Massive, an online science media platform. Sound Science Podcast is produced by dublab. Please visit dublab.com to find out more!

This month’s episode is about the way the brain processes loss and why we experience the emotion of grief. We’ll be thinking about the evolutionary relevance of grief, how the brain modulates it’s own experience of grief, and what actually happens in the brain when it experiences what is considered “normal grief." We will also be looking at the healing power of music by exploring how one organization has used it to help countless youth during times of loss. The scientific interests of our first guest, Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor, lie in understanding emotions at the experiential and physiological level. Her work has primarily focused on a bereaved population due to the wide-ranging emotional responses to this specific event of loss. In particular, she studies the neurobiological, immune, and autonomic parameters that vary between individual grief responses. Her techniques have included functional and structural neuroimaging, immune and endocrine analysis of saliva and blood, and psychophysiological assessment of heart rate variability. Continually interested in novel ways to evoke emotion, especially grief, Dr. O' Connor uses personalized stimuli, reaction time paradigms, written emotional disclosure, and virtual worlds in her work. Our second guest, Dr. Peter Freed, is a psychiatrist in New York. He received his medical degree from University of California San Francisco School of Medicine and has been in practice for 20 years. Resources: Science of Grief and Aim4theHeart About Dr. Yewande Pearse: Born and bred in North London, Dr. Yewande Pearse completed her PhD in Neuroscience at King's College London, in 2016. She is now based in Los Angeles, where she works as a Research Fellow, developing a stem cell therapy treatment for a rare childhood brain disease. Outside of the lab, Yewande is a collaborator of Science Gallery Detroit, sits on the Programming Committee Spring/Summer 2019 at Navel Los Angeles, and was a TEDMED Research Scholar for the 2018 Stage Program. Yewande also writes for Massive, an online science media platform. Sound Science Podcast is produced by dublab. Please visit dublab.com to find out more!

At some point in your life, someone may have asked you whether you are left brained, or right brained. Or maybe you have heard someone proudly proclaim that they are right brained. This months show is all about ‘The Left Brain Vs. Right Brain’ and the long held belief that people tend to have a personality or style of thinking that is either “right-brained or left-brained." As a musician is your right-brain really doing all the work? Myth, half myth or truth? Press play to find out. Our first guest is Judith Sönnicken, a dimensional athlete and ancient cosmologist. She holds an MA in Fine Arts from the University of the Arts Berlin and certified in UX, Usui Reiki and Feng Shui. Her practice employs objects, installation, virtual reality, performance, geomancy, sound immersion and guided meditation. Her project Befriending Hyperobjects, a performative interaction with non-human entities in digital and analog geographies, connects art and technology to fund environmental action. Her work has been shown at Museu Geológico de Portugal, Green Art Gallery, Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, The Institute of Jamais Vu, Cirrus Gallery, Icebox Projects , NAVEL Los Angeles, documenta14, and The Eighth Climate /11th Gwangju Biennial. Our second guest, Rex Jung, is a clinical professor of neurosurgery at the University of New Mexico, a research scientist at the Mind Research Network, and a practicing clinical neuropsychologist. He studies both brain disease and what the brain does well—a field of research known as "positive neuroscience." His research is designed to relate behavioral measures, including intelligence, personality, and creativity, to brain function and structure in healthy, neurological, and psychiatric subjects. He has published research articles across a wide range of disciplines, including traumatic brain injury, lupus, schizophrenia, intelligence, and creativity. About Dr. Yewande Pearse: Born and bred in North London, Dr. Yewande Pearse completed her PhD in Neuroscience at King's College London, in 2016. She is now based in Los Angeles, where she works as a Research Fellow, developing a stem cell therapy treatment for a rare childhood brain disease. Outside of the lab, Yewande is a collaborator of Science Gallery Detroit, sits on the Programming Committee Spring/Summer 2019 at Navel Los Angeles, and was a TEDMED Research Scholar for the 2018 Stage Program. Yewande also writes for Massive, an online science media platform. Sound Science Podcast is produced by dublab. Please visit dublab.com to find out more!

This month on Sound Science Podcast, we ask what happens between our ears in response to incoming rhythmic sensory inputs - in other words, how do we find the beat? Moving to the music that we hear is an intuitive behavior bestowed upon us before we can even walk. As we develop into adults, we start doing it on purpose. Some of us are quite good at it, while some of us would swear we have no sense of rhythm, but can rhythm be taught? For a small percentage of the population with a condition called “beat deafness” - the answer may be no and we explore why. On the flip side, drummers provide the timing and rhythmic foundation in a musical ensemble, we ask what it means to create rhythm in this way and look into how drum music, can be therapeutic in treating a number of neurological disorders, regardless of how well we move. Our first guest this week is Heidi Prendergast, a dancer, choreographer and dance teacher. Heidi started her classical dance training at age 14 and received a BFA in dance and choreography from the University of Colorado. After graduating she moved to New York where she continued to perform, with various dance companies and her own work, at Dance New Amsterdam, Triskillieon Arts, The Kitchen, St. Marks and other venues. Since moving to Los Angeles Heidi has been teaching movement, dance, and yoga throughout southern California focusing on alignment and strength in all forms, and creates her own work using video and sound in collaboration with other artists.  Our following guest, Pegasus Warning, an alter ego of Guillermo E. Brown, can be described as a supernova of experimental R&B and soulful synths. Raised in New York by an American ethnomusicologist-healer and Panamanian priest-wizard, Brown always opted for the path unknown from a young age. The jazz percussionist’s idiosyncratic visions have prompted collaborations with Saul Williams, Twin Shadow, Jamie Lidell, Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear, Mocky, Nia Andrews and EL-P of Run the Jewels to name a few. Brown was also a professor of Afro-futurism and History of the Electronic Avant-Garde at NYU and Artist-In-Residence at Pacific Northwest College of Art. Most recently he has appeared as the drummer in the house band for The Late Late Show with James Corden, with music director Reggie Watts. Stay tuned for new music in 2019. We are also joined by drummer, recording artist and music director, Pauli "The PSM" Stanley-McKenzie. He got his big break working with Gorillaz and later African Express- projects fronted by Blur frontman Damon Albarn. He has also played drums for Damon Albarn on his solo tour, Kindness, and more recently, Sampha. Pauli has worked off stage, serving as a music director for FKA Twigs and Jamie xx. Pauli’s first single as a recording artist Give Me A Sign was released in 2014. Since then, he released his debut EP, The Idea of Tomorrow, and debuted his first solo show during Paris Fashion Week at Les Bains Paris in 2017. His latest EP, Secret Life of a Badman, is available on Apple Music. About Dr. Yewande Pearse: Born and bred in North London, Dr. Yewande Pearse completed her PhD in Neuroscience at King's College London, in 2016. She is now based in Los Angeles, where she works as a Research Fellow, developing a stem cell therapy treatment for a rare childhood brain disease. Outside of the lab, Yewande is a collaborator of Science Gallery Detroit, sits on the Programming Committee Spring/Summer 2019 at Navel Los Angeles, and was a TEDMED Research Scholar for the 2018 Stage Program. Yewande also writes for Massive, an online science media platform. Sound Science Podcast is produced by dublab. Please visit dublab.com to find out more!

We’re all familiar with the idea that we should be getting an average of 8 hours of sleep a night. But we are not all as familiar as to why. And for some of us, the value we place on a good night sleep is trumped by the value we place on the underground music scenes that have thrived on staying up all night, nourishing us in a different way. This month on Sound Science, we explore the science of sleep and pay tribute to rich underground night time music scenes past and new, asking whether we can enjoy dancing the night away, while maintaining good sleep health. Our first guest this week is Dr Russel Foster, Head of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology and the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute at Oxford University. His research interests span both visual and circadian neurobiology with a focus on the mechanisms whereby light regulates vertebrate circadian rhythms. We are also joined by Foreigner Aka Adam Cooper, a multi-disciplinary creative best known as a DJ, designer, and event producer. He has a monthly show on NTS Radio and is responsible for blessing LA with some of the best events it’s ever seen, including Junkyard Jouvert, Midnight (Made in L.A. afterparty) and RAIL UP. About Dr. Yewande Pearse: Born and bred in North London, Dr. Yewande Pearse completed her PhD in Neuroscience at King's College London, in 2016. She is now based in Los Angeles, where she works as a Research Fellow, developing a stem cell therapy treatment for a rare childhood brain disease. Outside of the lab, Yewande is a collaborator of Science Gallery Detroit, sits on the Programming Committee Spring/Summer 2019 at Navel Los Angeles, and was a TEDMED Research Scholar for the 2018 Stage Program. Yewande also writes for Massive, an online science media platform. Sound Science Podcast is produced by dublab. Please visit dublab.com to find out more!

The Psychedelic era of the mid-60s was a time of social, musical and artistic change influenced by psychedelic drugs, but behind the cultural curtain, a world of research was beginning to open up into the therapeutic potential of these drugs - one that was unfortunately short lived. In 1970, President Richard Nixon called Timothy Leary, the Harvard psychologist famously known for advocating the exploration of the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs as a cure-all for societies woes, "the most dangerous man in America." As a backlash to their role in the cultural upheaval of the 1960s, the majority of these drugs were declared illegal, driving hallucinogenic research and culture underground. Now, these drugs are in the midst of a revival, as new research indicates treatment options for a variety of mental illnesses and disorders, too valuable not to investigate. As psychedelic drug research bubbles back up to the surface in labs across the globe - we ask whether these drugs have a role beyond disease and if their use in creative practice will ever loose the stigma.  Our first guest, Rahel Debebe, front woman of folk-prog-jazz band Hejira, talks to us about seeing colors and shapes when she hears music and how that has influenced her creativity. Vocalist and song writer, Debebe has performed to sold-out audiences in venues such as the Royal Albert Hall and the Sydney Opera House. Hejira, will release their album Thread of Gold in February 2019. Later in the episode, we are joined by Dr. Charles Grob, Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the UCLA School of Medicine. He talks to us about the turbulent history of psychedelic drug research. Dr. Grob has conducted the first government approved psychobiological research study of MDMA, and was the principal investigator of an international research project in the Brazilian Amazon studying the visionary plant brew, Ayahuasca.  He has also published the first approved research investigation in decades on the safety and efficacy of psilocybin in the treatment of anxiety in patients with advanced-stage cancer. About Dr. Yewande Pearse: Born and bred in North London, Dr. Yewande Pearse completed her PhD in Neuroscience at King's College London, in 2016. She is now based in Los Angeles, where she works as a Research Fellow, developing a stem cell therapy treatment for a rare childhood brain disease. Outside of the lab, Yewande is a collaborator of Science Gallery Detroit, sits on the Programming Committee Spring/Summer 2019 at Navel Los Angeles, and was a TEDMED Research Scholar for the 2018 Stage Program. Yewande also writes for Massive, an online science media platform. Sound Science Podcast is produced by dublab. Please visit dublab.com to find out more!

Think about the last physical pain you experienced vs. how it felt when you broke up with an ex. On the surface, these two events are completely different. However, cultures around the world use the same language—words like “hurt” and “pain”—to describe both experiences. This month on Sound Science, we explore what is going on in your brain when you experience emotional pain and why social pain, is more than just a metaphor. We are joined by Professor Nathan DeWall, who explains why taking Tylenol can help soothe a broken heart not just a headache. Professor Nathan DeWall is a Professor of Psychology at the College of Arts & Sciences, University of Kentucky. His research interests include social exclusion and acceptance, aggression, social neuroscience and self-regulation. He is a contributor to the New York Times and has written a number of books and articles, including "Can marijuana reduce social pain?" for Social and Personality Psychological Science and "Can acetaminophen reduce the pain of decision-making?" for the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Our second guest is Dr Sophie Mort, AKA Dr Soph. She will be explaining to us the various stages of heart ache, why we feel what we feel and what we can do to deal with those feelings. Dr Sophie Mort is a Clinical Psychologist, Life Coach and Yoga Teacher. She has a Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and a Masters in Neuroscience. She is on on a mission to get evidence based psychology out of the therapy room and into people's lives. She offers private psychological therapy and life coaching online to people allover the world. Find out more about her on Drsoph.com. About Dr. Yewande Pearse: Born and bred in North London, Dr. Yewande Pearse completed her PhD in Neuroscience at King's College London, in 2016. She is now based in Los Angeles, where she works as a Research Fellow, developing a stem cell therapy treatment for a rare childhood brain disease. Outside of the lab, Yewande is a collaborator of Science Gallery Detroit, sits on the Programming Committee Spring/Summer 2019 at Navel Los Angeles, and was a TEDMED Research Scholar for the 2018 Stage Program. Yewande also writes for Massive, an online science media platform. Sound Science Podcast is produced by dublab. Please visit dublab.com to find out more!