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Verge of Discovery

Verge of Discovery is a podcast created for everyone who loves to learn and wants to know more about the most recent developments in the field of science and technology. We interview today's brightest scholars, intellectuals and visionaries in the field of science and technology and bring their knowledge, passion and wisdom to you. Our goal is bring the latest scientific developments to you directly from the minds of people who are propelling us into the future. We want to learn from them and be inspired by them. Just imagine Christopher Columbus telling you personally what it was like to explore the Americas or the Wright brothers describing to you what it was like to fly for the first time. What would that feel like? This is what the Verge of Discovery is about, that moment of personal discovery from the hearts and minds of today's brightest stars.
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Jan 25, 2016

Dr. Jyutika Mehta is an associate professor at Texas Woman’s University and directs Neurophysiology lab in the department of Communication Science & Disorders.  Her primary research interests are to study speech and language representation in normal and disordered brains.

Jan 18, 2016

Monica Rosenberg is a graduate student in the Department of Psychology at Yale University.  Monica discusses how applying cognitive neuroscience research can help identify and treat disorders like ADHD.  She expands on how ability to sustain attention varies widely across individuals and researchers lack a standardized way to measure it. Monica dives deeper into her groups recent work introducing a new fMRI measure of sustained attention based on patterns of functional connectivity, or correlated activity across the brain.

Jan 11, 2016

Dr. Nicole Starosielski is the author of "The Undersea Network," a book on the undersea cable systems that carry almost all transoceanic internet traffic today.  She discusses the history of the network and how it was started and how it developed into what it is today.  Dr. Starosielski discusses the technology behind the network and why it is being used today.  She also dives deeper into other factors such as security, longevity and reliability of the network and its future.

Jan 4, 2016

Dr. Brian McKay is an associate professor at the Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science at the University of Arizona.  Dr. McKay joins the show to discuss age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and its potential causes.  He dives deeper into the relationship between certain pigments and persons susceptibility to AMD or glaucoma and how they are related.  Dr. McKay also shares with us his most recent results in which Alzheimer’s drug can potentially help us treat and even prevent future cases of AMD.

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