What Makes Up Your Mind

by the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine

The Stanford University School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences has a great tradition of fundamental science, translational and clinical research, subspecialty expertise, multidisciplinary education, and influential leadership. We invite you to follow our podcast: "WHAT MAKES UP YOUR MIND: Updates from the frontiers of neuroscience, wellbeing, and mental health" hosted by Jane McMillan, broadcas ... 

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  • Season 4

  • Neuro Gene Mapping – Charting a Course For Cures, with Dr. Tamar Green

    Neuro Gene Mapping – Charting a Course For Cures, with Dr. Tamar Green

    S04 E01
    28:32

    For neuro disorders like Autism, Attention Deficit, and Hyperactivity, causes and cures have largely remained a mystery. Yet, promising work in Stanford Psychiatry’s BRIDGE Lab is going after answers in the very nucleus of our cells, our genes, the infinitesimal carriers of information that determine the traits of all living things. Dr. Tamar Green, with help from participating families, is scanning the brains of kids with neuro conditions, mapping their genetic pathways to recognize, understand, and eventually intervene in disease-causing mutations. This intricate and microscopic research, sometimes involving more than 30-thousand genes in a single brain cell, is hoped to yield big and wide-raging benefits for treatments and, someday, cures. More Information About Dr. Tamar Green: https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/tamar-green The Brain Imaging, Development, and Genetics (BRIDGE) Lab: https://med.stanford.edu/bridge-lab.html Research Participation: https://med.stanford.edu/bridge-lab/for-families-and-participants.html Research Support: https://my.supportlpch.org/give/489426/#!/donation/checkout

  • Season 3

  • CNI-X Mini-Series: The Staff Mentor Experience, with Nicola Manalili and Abhi Anand

    CNI-X Mini-Series: The Staff Mentor Experience, with Nicola Manalili and Abhi Anand

    S03 E06
    21:53

    In this episode in our CNI-X Mini-Series on WHAT MAKES UP YOUR MIND we meet two of the Staff Mentors who add a unique dimension to Stanford Psychiatry’s Clinical Neuroscience Immersion Experience for high school students. Throughout the two week program, these college-age mentors - usually CNI-X alums themselves - share their knowledge and experience in neuroscience, facilitate discussion, and support participants as they gain confidence in exploring new subjects. Just by their presence, they offer the students an example of where they may choose to be in just a year or two in the future as college students, perhaps on their way to a career in mental healthcare. In this mini-pod, meet Nicola Manalili, who combined her love of science and the desire to make the world a better place and is now in her third year of college studying Public Health. Joining Nicola is Abhi Anand who fell in love with psychology in high school and caught the business bug watching Shark Tank with friends. He put the two together in a recent degree in Business Psychology and Marketing. Learn more about CNI-X, the role of mentors, and how to apply at https://med.stanford.edu/psychiatry/special-initiatives/CNIX.html

  • CNI-X Mini-Series: Circadian Rhythms, with Dr. Jamie Zeitzer

    CNI-X Mini-Series: Circadian Rhythms, with Dr. Jamie Zeitzer

    S03 E05
    20:07

    The subject is Circadian Rhythms, and you’re going to be surprised at the influence this intricate interaction of body clocks exerts over our lives! The high school participants in Stanford Psychiatry’s two-week Clinical Neuroscience Immersion Experience (CNI-X) always are when they meet Dr. Jamie Zeitzer, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the Division of Sleep Medicine. Dr. Zeitzer researches the mysteries of the system that drives almost every living thing on earth, and in humans impacts not just sleep, but everything from our temperature to the quality of our decision-making. As with all of the CNI-X presenters, Dr. Zeitzer’s research and discoveries make for an invaluable lesson in life and self-awareness, as well as science. For more on CNI-X, Dr. Zeitzer, and all the program presenters: https://med.stanford.edu/psychiatry/special-initiatives/CNIX

  • CNI-X Mini-Series: Traumatic Brain Injury, Neurosurgery, and more, with Dr. Odette Harris

    CNI-X Mini-Series: Traumatic Brain Injury, Neurosurgery, and more, with Dr. Odette Harris

    S03 E04
    18:28

    Bringing high school students into the fascinating world of Brain-Mind science is what the Stanford Psychiatry Clinical Neuroscience Immersion Experience (CNI-X) is all about. Along with the science itself, better understanding the human brain – the miraculous power of it as well as the conditions that can challenge its functioning – is information that will serve participants for a lifetime. This is the gift Stanford’s world-class researchers and clinicians offer CNI-X participants, including Dr. Odette Harris, Stanford Professor and neurosurgeon. Dr. Harris treats traumatic brain injury at all stages, from surgery through recovery. Her CNI-X presentation fosters the critical thinking needed to address the ethics of the life and death decisions that come with her work. Program participants get rare access to Dr. Harris’ unique perspective which is sure to leave a lasting impression. For more on CNI-X, Dr. Odette Harris, and all of Stanford’s expert presenters: https://med.stanford.edu/psychiatry/special-initiatives/CNIX

  • CNI-X Mini-Series: Healthy Sleep, with Dr. Rafael Pelayo

    CNI-X Mini-Series: Healthy Sleep, with Dr. Rafael Pelayo

    S03 E03
    18:43

    Teens have no greater ally in their life challenges than Dr. Rafael Pelayo, Stanford Psychiatry Clinical Professor and Sleep Medicine Specialist at the Stanford Sleep Medicine Center. An advocate of healthy sleep for all, Dr. Pelayo is especially passionate about how we - as a society - make it nearly impossible, through school schedules and achievement pressures, for kids to get the sleep they need. In his CNI-X presentation, Dr. Pelayo helps participants see the connection between healthy sleep and the very quality of their lives and relationships. In this mini-pod in our series on the Clinical Neuroscience Immersion Experience for high schoolers through the Stanford Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences you’ll hear why Dr. Pelayo is one of the unforgettable presenters in the two-week program. Go to https://med.stanford.edu/psychiatry/special-initiatives/CNIX for information on CNI-X, Dr. Rafael Pelayo, and all the program presenters. To get involved in changing school start times for better sleep for kids: www.startschoollater.org