Explore every episode of the podcast Physiology and Behavior
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| Reproducible science, social media, and responding to reviewer comments | 15 Nov 2021 | 00:57:18 | |
In this episode I chat with Izelle Labuschagne, who is the founder of the Complete Thesis support group, about reproducible science [3:42], social media for academics [21:20], and responding to reviewer comments [39:25]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Audio paper: How podcasts can benefit scientific communities | 27 Jan 2021 | 00:12:41 | |
This is the audio version of a paper I recently co-authored in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, titled "How podcasts can benefit scientific communities". I'm reading the preprint version of the article, which is very similar to the published version. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| A pre-registered study on the causal link between intranasal oxytocin and spiritual experiences | Study summary | 22 Apr 2019 | 00:02:10 | |
A 2018 study that provides mixed support for a causal link between single dose intranasal oxytocin and spiritual experiences ----- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Oxytocin-like receptor distributions in birds | Study summary | 19 Apr 2019 | 00:01:34 | |
A new study provides oxytocin-like receptor distribution maps for the brains of three birds species ----- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Oxytocin blocks enhanced motivation for alcohol in alcohol dependent rats | Study summary | 18 Apr 2019 | 00:01:38 | |
A new study suggests that oxytocin blocks enhanced motivation for alcohol in alcohol dependent rats ----- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Oxytocin does not influence social decision making in Capuchin monkeys | Study summary | 17 Apr 2019 | 00:01:49 | |
A new study suggests that oxytocin does not influence social decision making in Capuchin monkeys ----- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Systemic oxytocin administration alters mesolimbic dopamine release in mice | Study summary | 16 Apr 2019 | 00:01:36 | |
A new study suggests that systemic oxytocin administration alters mesolimbic dopamine release in mice ----- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Intranasal oxytocin decreases task-related aggressive responses in young males | Study summary | 15 Apr 2019 | 00:02:00 | |
A new study suggests that intranasal oxytocin decreases task-related aggressive responses in young males ----- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Oxytocin increases male-directed threats and vocalizations in female macaques | Study summary | 12 Apr 2019 | 00:01:57 | |
A new study suggests that oxytocin increases male-directed threats and vocalizations in female macaques ----- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| The impact of oxytocin on pupil dilation in response to novel social and non-social stimuli | Study summary | 11 Apr 2019 | 00:01:52 | |
A new study investigates the impact of oxytocin on pupil dilation in response to novel social and non-social stimuli ----- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| The role of oxytocin in dealing with the idea of one’s mortality | Study summary | 10 Apr 2019 | 00:01:49 | |
A new study investigates the role of oxytocin in dealing with the idea of one’s mortality ----- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| The role of oxytocin in the modulation of paternal behavior in mandarin voles | Study summary | 09 Apr 2019 | 00:01:33 | |
A new study demonstrates the role of oxytocin in the modulation of paternal behavior in mandarin voles ----- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Social media for academics: why and how | 21 Jan 2021 | 00:14:49 | |
This was a talk I recently did on social media for academics. I cover both why and how academics can use social media to boost their academic careers. The slides are available here. Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Oxytocin administration modulates helping behaviour in rats depending on social context | Study summary | 08 Apr 2019 | 00:02:16 | |
A new study demonstrates that oxytocin administration modulates helping behaviour in rats depending on social context ----- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Oxytocin-dependent reopening of a social reward learning critical period with MDMA | Study summary | 05 Apr 2019 | 00:01:54 | |
A new study in the journal Nature demonstrates oxytocin-dependent reopening of a social reward learning critical period with MDMA ----- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Oxytocin attenuates stress-induced reinstatement of alcohol seeking behavior in mice | Study summary | 04 Apr 2019 | 00:01:51 | |
A new study suggests that oxytocin attenuates stress-induced reinstatement of alcohol seeking behavior in mice ----- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Associations between oxytocin and cortisol activity in response to psychological stress and sexual arousal | Study summary | 03 Apr 2019 | 00:01:30 | |
A new study investigates associations between oxytocin and cortisol activity in response to psychological stress and sexual arousal ----- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Neurochemical effects of oxytocin in people at clinical high risk for psychosis | Study summary | 02 Apr 2019 | 00:01:48 | |
A new study investigates the neurochemical effects of oxytocin in people at clinical high risk for psychosis ----- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Oxytocin modulates social value representations in the amygdala | Study summary | 01 Apr 2019 | 00:02:01 | |
A new Nature Neuroscience study suggests that oxytocin modulates social value representations in the amygdala ----- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| The role of the oxytocin system in amygdala–hippocampal connectivity in autism | Study summary | 29 Mar 2019 | 00:01:50 | |
A new study suggests that oxytocin signalling plays a role in amygdala–hippocampal connectivity in autism ----- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Oxytocin treatment reduces food intake and body fat in an animal post-menopause model | Study summary | 28 Mar 2019 | 00:01:48 | |
A new study suggests that oxytocin treatment reduces food intake and body fat in an animal model of post-menopause ----- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Assessing the social salience hypothesis of oxytocin in a fish species | Study summary | 27 Mar 2019 | 00:01:38 | |
A new study assesses the social salience hypothesis of oxytocin in a fish species ----- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| The oxytocin receptor gene predicts brain activity during an emotion recognition task in autism | Study summary | 26 Mar 2019 | 00:01:59 | |
A new study in Molecular Autism reports that the oxytocin receptor gene predicts brain activity during an emotion recognition task in autism ----- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Audio paper: An Allostatic Theory of Oxytocin | 08 May 2020 | 00:35:48 | |
This episode is the audio version of our paper, titled "An Allostatic Theory of Oxytocin", that was recently published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Here is the abstract: Oxytocin has garnered considerable interest for its role in social behavior, as well as for the potential of intranasal administration to treat social difficulties. How- ever, current theoretical models for the role of oxytocin in social behavior pay little consideration to its evolutionary and developmental history. This article aims to broaden our understanding of the role of oxytocin in social behavior by adopting an ethological approach through the lens of Nikolaas Tinbergen’s 'four questions' – how does oxytocin work; how does the role of oxytocin change during development; how does oxytocin enhance survival; and how did the oxytocin system evolve? We argue that oxytocin is most accurately described as an allostatic hormone that modulates both social and non-social behavior by maintaining stability through changing environments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| The effect of age and autism spectrum disorder on oxytocin receptor density in the brain | Study summary | 25 Mar 2019 | 00:02:01 | |
A new study in Translational Psychiatry examines the Effect of age and autism spectrum disorder on oxytocin receptor density in the brain ----- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Oxytocin selectively improves empathic accuracy | Study summary | 22 Mar 2019 | 00:01:47 | |
A new study demonstrates that oxytocin selectively improves empathic accuracy ----- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Intranasal oxytocin modulates higher order social cognition in body dysmorphic disorder | Study summary | 21 Mar 2019 | 00:02:27 | |
A new study demonstrates that intranasal oxytocin modulates higher order social cognition in body dysmorphic disorder ----- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Prefrontal cortical neurons that express the oxytocin receptor modulate social recognition | Study summary | 20 Mar 2019 | 00:01:58 | |
A new study demonstrates that prefrontal cortical neurons that express the oxytocin receptor modulate social recognition ----- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Cortisol and oxytocin show independent activity during chimpanzee intergroup conflict | Study summary | 19 Mar 2019 | 00:01:48 | |
A new study demonstrates that cortisol and oxytocin show independent activity during chimpanzee intergroup conflict ----- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| The role of hormones and relationship status on women's preferences for facial masculinity | Study summary | 18 Mar 2019 | 00:01:57 | |
A new replication study confirms that women’s facial masculinity preferences are predicted by the interaction between their relationship status and average progesterone levels. ----- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Oxytocin promotes coordinated out-group attack during intergroup conflict | Study summary | 15 Mar 2019 | 00:01:50 | |
A new study in eLife suggests that oxytocin promotes coordinated out-group attack during intergroup conflict ----- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| An oxytocin-like peptide regulates behavior in ants | Study summary | 14 Mar 2019 | 00:01:22 | |
A new study suggests that an oxytocin-like peptide regulates behavior in ants. ----- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Oxytocin receptor density variations are associated with social status in mouse social hierarchies | Study summary | 13 Mar 2019 | 00:01:34 | |
A new preprint suggests that social status in mouse social hierarchies is associated with variation in oxytocin receptor densities ----- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Oxytocin improves learning in rats | Study summary | 12 Mar 2019 | 00:01:46 | |
A new study suggests that oxytocin improves learning in rats ----- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| From the lab to your living room | 09 Apr 2020 | 00:44:01 | |
This is a virtual talk I recently gave to PhD students at Linköping University on how to better adjust to working from home The video and the slides from this talk can be found here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Oxytocin levels are associated with impaired social cognition in schizophrenia | Study summary | 11 Mar 2019 | 00:01:58 | |
A new study suggests that oxytocin levels are associated with impaired social cognition in schizophrenia. -------- Follow Dan on Twitter and Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| RAGE-mediated transport of oxytocin into the brain | Study summary | 08 Mar 2019 | 00:01:54 | |
A new study identifies how oxytocin might be transported into the brain to elicit social behaviour. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Study summary - How does intranasal oxytocin enter the brain? | 06 Mar 2019 | 00:02:00 | |
Dan summarises a new preprint that describes a study investigating whether direct nose-to-brain pathways underlie intranasal oxytocin-induced changes in regional cerebral blood flow in humans Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Oxytocin pathway gene networks in the human brain | Audio paper | 24 Feb 2019 | 00:36:02 | |
This an audio paper on oxytocin pathway gene networks in the human brain, published in Nature Communications. Read the full paper here. Links Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Remedies for three common issues in meta-analysis | Audio paper | 09 Jan 2019 | 00:12:44 | |
This an audio paper on remedies for three common issues in meta-analysis: lack of pre-registration, misinterpretation of funnel plots, and effect size dependencies. Read the paper preprint here. Links Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| An overview of heart rate variability and its functional significance | 13 Dec 2018 | 00:52:23 | |
Here's a talk I recently gave at Leiden University on December 12th 2018. I provide an overview of HRV and its role in mental illness, which is generally characterised by reduced HRV. I will also cover how reduced HRV has important functional significance for social behaviours and psychological flexibility in response to stressors. Easy access to measuring HRV is both one of its strengths and weaknesses, so I also discuss its responsible application in biobehavioral research. Links Here's the slidedeck I used Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Finding mistakes in your meta-analysis | Q&A episode | 26 Nov 2018 | 00:24:16 | |
I had a chat with Belinda Poole, a graduate student from the University of Sydney (my alma mater!), about her first meta-analysis. We discuss the publication of meta-analysis protocols, how to best find mistakes in your data extraction, and using the JAMOVI software package as a stepping stone to R for meta-analysis. Links Tutorial paper on meta-analysis Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Bayesian alternatives for null hypothesis significance tests | Audio paper | 12 Nov 2018 | 00:28:56 | |
In this episode, I share an audio version of a recent paper on Bayesian alternatives for null hypothesis significance tests. Read the open access paper here. Full reference to the paper: Quintana, D.S. & Williams, D.R. Bayesian alternatives for common null- hypothesis significance tests in psychiatry: a non-technical guide using JASP BMC Psychiatry (2018) 18: 178. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-018-1761-4 Links Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Performing your first meta-analysis | Q&A episode | 10 Nov 2018 | 00:27:04 | |
I recently had a chat with Thea, a PhD student from New York University, about her first meta-analysis. We discuss the value of learning meta-analysis, the difference between publication bias and small study bias, leave-one-out analyses, using the R meta-analysis mailing list for solving problems, comparing correlations, and the benefits of Twitter when you're learning a new skill. ------- Links Tutorial paper on meta-analysis Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Evidence for intranasal oxytocin delivery to the brain | Audio paper episode | 17 Oct 2018 | 00:24:19 | |
In this episode, I share an audio version of a recent paper on evidence for intranasal oxytocin delivery to the brain. Read the open access paper here. Full reference to the paper: Quintana, D. S., Smerud, K. T., Andreassen, O. A., & Djupesland, P. G. (2018). Evidence for intranasal oxytocin delivery to the brain: recent advances and future perspectives. Therapeutic Delivery, 9(7), 515-525. Links Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| How to make ten pieces of content to share across social platforms from just one idea | 28 Feb 2020 | 00:02:10 | |
The main hesitation I hear from researchers when it comes to social media is that they've got nothing to share. In this short clip, I show you can you can share ten different bits of information, across different platforms, using just one idea. Here's the video version of this clip. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Literature reviews | Q&A episode | 05 Sep 2018 | 00:08:29 | |
In this Q&A episode, I answer a question from the #PhDchat hashtag on twitter about how many paper you should read while writing up your lit review. ------- Links Original tweet with the question Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| How oxytocin influences your attention to internal cues | Interview with Sophie Betka | 23 Aug 2018 | 00:04:09 | |
I chat with Sophie Betka (Brighton and Sussex Medical School, UK) about her new study on how oxytocin influences attention to internal cues in social drinkers. You can watch the video version of this interview on Instagram TV or YouTube. Links Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| How oxytocin influences your attention to social cues | Interview with Clarissa Zwarg and Anne Rimpel | 16 Aug 2018 | 00:03:53 | |
I chat with Anne Rimpel & Clarissa Zwarg (LMU Munich, Germany) about their new study on how oxytocin promotes attention to social cues. You can watch the video version of this interview on Instagram TV or YouTube. Links Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| A quick and dirty heuristic to identify good meta-analyses | Q&A episode | 08 Aug 2018 | 00:03:47 | |
I answer a listener question from Joey on how to identify good meta-analyses when reading the literature. Links Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||