2024-12-04
1 小时 15 分钟How are memories made? Where are they stored? Where do they go? What was I just talking about? Neurobiologist, professor, researcher, and Director of UC Irvine’s Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Dr. Michael Yassa, joins us for a two-parter deep diving into our memories. Get to know the cells that run your life while he also busts flim-flam, and talks about movie myths, aging and memory loss, childbirth amnesia, what happens when you cram for a test, hormones and memory, that thing where you can’t remember a word, how to let go of the past, and more. Next week, we’ll follow up with your Patreon questions about Alzeihmer’s, remembering people’s names, neurodivergence, dementia, collective misremembering, and so much more. Commit it to memory.
Oh hey, it's the fountain at the mall that's never on alie ward.
And you're here for your brain.
So am I.
Let's get into it.
So this ologist was recommended years ago and has been on my list forever.
But I wanted to scoot on down an hour south of LA to his office on the UC Irvine campus where he does a lot of very cool and important work studying brains.
How does one become that?
Well, an undergrad in neuroscience and a master's in psychological and brain sciences from John Hopkins University, where he was later an assistant professor.
He got his PhD from UC Irvine and then he returned there to become the director of the center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory.
Dude knows memory.
Everyone at his office was so nice and I got there, we posted up at his desk and at one point I looked over to see some artwork of a seahorse and I was like, okay.
And then I realized, oh, okay, we're going to touch on that in a bit.
But first, thank you to all the patrons who submitted questions for this episode, which we're going to cover wall to wall in Part two next week.
And this because this is just a huge topic.
There's so many good questions.
Thank you to everyone getting ologies merch from ologiesmerch.com thanks to everyone leaving us reviews which boosts the show so much.
And each week I remember to read them all and I pick a just written one such as this one from Lucy Goose who wrote that they drove for seven days to Alaska from the lower 48 states and ologies ten hour days pass quickly.
Lucy Goose I hope we saw a moose.
And now onward.
Okay, mnemonology is not a word that this guest really likes because someone else wrote a book using it.