The Abstract
By: Shahin Zagros
Language: en
Categories: Science, Society, Culture, Philosophy
The Abstract: Neuroscience UnlockedWhat makes us human? It all comes back to the three-pound universe between your ears.Join neuroscientist and science writer Dr. Shahin Zagros as he sits down with the world’s sharpest minds in brain research to unpack the research that’s rewriting what we know about the mind.Every episode takes a brand-new, high-impact paper and distills it into four crystal-clear parts:Objective: what were they actually trying to find out?Methods: how did they look inside the black box?Results: what did they discover?Significance: why does this change everything?From memory and consciousness to epil...
Episodes
Beyond the seizure epicentre: a network approach to temporal lobe epilepsy
Dec 15, 2025In this episode, I speak with Dr. Sara Larivière, Assistant Professor at the Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiobiology at Université de Sherbrooke. She is at the head of the SLIC (Sherbrooke Laboratory for Integrative Connectomics), holding a Canada Research Chair in Neuroimaging of Epilepsy. Dr. Larivière and I are friends and colleagues, having received our doctorate training at the same lab under the supervision of Dr. Boris Bernhardt, my first guest on the show.
Her lab integrates neuroimaging, computational statistics, machine learning, and pipeline engineering to advance knowledge of the human brain. By developing and...
Duration: 00:44:51You don't need to be a neuroscientist to have common sense.
Nov 30, 2025I'm Shahin Zagros, cognitive neuroscientist and founder of ZAGROSCIENCE. I take brain research very seriously, which is why I find a lot of what passes for neuroscience online lacking in substance.
With my podcast, The Abstract, I bring you the latest and most compelling work in the field by interviewing the women and men who are driving it forward.
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Duration: 00:01:48Brain function: the interplay between local specialization and global integration
Nov 24, 2025In this inaugural episode, I speak with one of the world’s foremost experts in neuroimaging and brain connectomics, Dr Boris Bernhard, Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University and Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroinformatics. Dr Bernhardt is the Principal Investigator at the Multimodal Imaging and Connectome Analysis (MICA) Lab situated at the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre of the Montreal Neurological Institute (aka, The Neuro). He is also my friend and professional colleague, having served as my thesis supervisor during my PhD studies at McGill University.
His lab investigates how the organization of structural and fu...
Duration: 00:42:18