638: Brain Talk with Dr. Jesse Rissman

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Lucas Rockwood

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🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Neuroscience might be the final frontier when it comes to the human body. There is still so much to be discovered and understood about memory, attention, and how we learn. My guest on this week’s podcast runs a research lab at UCLA that uses brain imaging and electrical stimulation to see if science can move the needle and unlock our potential.

Listen and learn:

What memory is and why it’s impossible to isolate in the brain
Why some primates have better short-term recall than humans
How theta wave stimulation might improve memory
The challenges with testing and tracking attention

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ABOUT OUR GUEST

Dr. Jesse Rissman is an Associate Professor at UCLA in both the Psychology and Psychiatry departments. He is also part of several research centers focused on studying the brain and memory. Dr. Rissman earned his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed postdoctoral work at Stanford University. His research looks at how the brain supports memory and how we control it, using methods like brain imaging and stimulation.

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone. It's Lucas here. Today's show is called about, today's show is
0:05.4	called brain talk and will talk about your brain and memory, attention and
0:09.2	more. I'm joined here with Dr. Jesse Risman. Jesse is an associate professor at UCLA in both the
0:14.8	psychology and psychiatry departments. He has several research centers and his
0:19.6	work is all around brain and memory and attention and you can find all of his work at
0:24.8	his academic site which is redirected from his name dot com which is Jesse
0:29.3	wristcom if you're listening on your phone, just scroll down.
0:32.6	We'll link up in the show notes as well.
0:34.3	Jesse, welcome to the show.
0:36.1	Thank you.
0:36.5	It's a pleasure to be here.
0:38.2	I always like to start with definitions.
0:40.1	I wonder from a neuroscience perspective, I wonder if we could just define memory.
0:46.5	Well, memory is a very broad construct.
0:50.9	It's sort of in a way, so much of what our brain does is allowing us to use our past experience,
0:58.0	a lifetime of things that we've seen and experienced and heard about and drawing on those to guide our present behavior.
1:08.4	So there are many different types of memory and those memory varieties have different brain mechanisms so in general
1:15.8	memory is just the impact of your past experience on your brain and the ability of
1:22.2	you to sort of utilize those. on your
1:25.0	on your brain and the ability of you to sort of utilize those encounters that you've had to
1:28.0	guide your decisions and
1:31.0	recall sort of what happened in different contexts
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