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The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 81: Creativity and Innovation in Medicine with Drs. Behrooz Akbarnia, Greg Mundis, and Bahar ShahidiThis episode features three medical innovators working at the intersection of orthopedic surgery, medical technology, and orthopedic research at the San Diego Spine Foundation (SDSF), Scripps Clinic, and the University of California San Diego (UCSD). Dr. Akbarnia is the Founder of the SDSF and former president of the Scoliosis Research Society, as well as a retired clinical professor and orthopedic surgeon. He developed an innovative, minimally invasive magnetic device for the treatment for pediatric scoliosis, eliminating the need for multiple surgeries. Dr. Mundis is the current president of the SDSF, as well as an orthopedic sp...2025-03-2044 min
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 77: Collaborate, Innovate, Advocate with Beth Sundstrom, PhDBeth Sundstrom, PhD, MPH, is a professor of health communication at the College of Charleston, where she is the Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URCA) and the Founding Director of the Women’s Health Research Team (WHRT). She is a Fulbright Research Grant recipient and leading expert on health communication and reproductive health. Beth conducts applied research that informs the development of community-based public health interventions and nationally recognized communication campaigns. She is the author or co-author of three books and more than 80 scholarly articles on women’s health and health communication. Our conversation focu...2025-02-2043 min
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 66: Finding Ease Through Body Awareness with Jennifer Roig-FrancoliAs creatives, and as humans more broadly, we can find ourselves holding habitual tension and pain in our bodies by virtue of our work, whether it be playing a musical instrument, performing physical labor, or simply sitting at a desk all day. Jennifer Roig-Francoli, a violinist and coach specializing in the Primal Alexander Technique, helps people rediscover ease and joy through body awareness. We discuss her personal and spiritual journey from professional concert violinist to coach and teacher, and she leads listeners through a guided body awareness practice using the Primal Alexander Technique developed by her partner, Mio Morales. 2024-12-0550 minThe Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 62: The Neuroscience of Creativity with Dr. Indre ViskontasDr. Indre Viskontas is a woman of many talents: an opera singer and director, a neuroscientist, a professor, host of the Inquiring Minds podcast (and several others), and the current president of the Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity. She bridges the worlds of music, performance, neuroscience, and education, sharing her academic insights with the wider world through public speaking, including a TED Talk, her book, titled How Music Can Make You Better, and her podcasts. Our conversation explores Indre’s current research, as well as her own creative process, how she’s teaching her own kids about creativity, and...2024-11-0743 min
502 Conversations - Science, Skepticism, Pseudoscience, Philosophy, and more.Brain Training Games, Apps, and Exercises - Do They Work? A Conversation with Dr. Indre ViskontasThis episode may be viewed as a video here https://youtu.be/YIkCs1XCPWo
Dr. Viskontas has a PhD in cognitive neuroscience and a masters of music in voice performance. She is currently an associate professor of psychology at the University of San Francisco where she directs the creative brain lab; and she has a cross appointment at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she applies neuroscience to musical training.
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Inquiring MindsThe history of structural racism in medicineWe talk to Robert Rosencrans, an MD/PhD student at the The University of Alabama at Birmingham about the history of structural racism in medicine and the problems with race-based medicine.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds
2020-06-1645 min
It's a Brain Thing!Episode 16: Music and Executive Functioning with Dr. Indre Viskontas Make sure to order “Beyond Behaviors” by Dr. Mona Delahooke, PhD. for our upcoming book club. Our next episode will feature Chapter 1!Dr. Indre Viskontas, PhD – https://www.indreviskontas.comCadence (Indre’s podcast about music and the brain) - https://www.indreviskontas.com/potowski-avInquiring Minds (I love this podcast!!!) - https://inquiring.showGreat Courses: Brain Myths Exploded by Dr. Indre Viskontas - https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/brain-myths-exploded-lessons-from-neuroscience.html Great Courses: 12 Essential Scientific Concepts - https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/12-essential-scientific-concepts.html Matt Walker “Why We Sle...2020-04-131h 02
Inquiring MindsThe Rise and Fall of the CephalopodsWe talk to Danna Staaf, a science writer with a PhD in invertebrate biology from Stanford University, about her new book Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds
2018-05-1533 min
The Prism PodcastThe Prism Podcast - Episode 80Dr. Indre Viskontas is an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the University of San Francisco and Professor of Sciences and Humanities at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she is pioneering the application of neuroscience to musical training. Professor Viskontas received her Bachelor of Science degree with a Specialist in Psychology and a minor in French Literature at Trinity College in the University of Toronto. She also holds a Masters of Music degree in vocal performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She completed her PhD in cognitive neuroscience at the University of California, Los Angeles, where...2017-04-0300 min
Inquiring Minds171 Siddhartha Roy - The Science Behind the Flint Water CrisisWe talk to Siddhartha Roy, a PhD student and graduate researcher in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. Roy is a founding member of the Virginia Tech Flint Water Study and has worked on the ground in Flint applying his research on corrosion and plumbing to the crisis.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds
2017-03-2044 min
Inquiring Minds27 Ethan Perlstein - Scenes from the PostdocalypseHow do you become a scientist? Ask anyone in the profession and you'll probably hear some version of the following: get a Bachelor's of Science degree, work in a lab, get into a PhD program, publish some papers, get a good post-doctoral position, publish some more papers and then apply for a tenure-track job at a large university. It's a long road—and you get to spend those 10 to 15 years as a poor graduate student or underpaid postdoc, while you watch your peers launch careers, start families, and contribute to their 401(k) plans.And then comes the academic jo...2014-03-2854 min
Point of InquiryCarol Tavris - The Science of Sex and GenderHost: Indre Viskontas
Back in February, Yahoo! President and CEO Marissa Mayer made a decision that pushed gender issues and the work/life balance back into the headlines: she mandated that her employees can no longer work from home. It's a decision that impacts families with children in a big way—and puts a focus on women in the workplace.
Are decisions like Mayer's related to a broader cultural bias against women? Do biological differences between men and women account for the gender disparity in leadership positions in many industries? What do we even know ab...2013-03-2645 minPoint of InquiryCarol Tavris - The Science of Sex and GenderHost: Indre Viskontas
Back in February, Yahoo! President and CEO Marissa Mayer made a decision that pushed gender issues and the work/life balance back into the headlines: she mandated that her employees can no longer work from home. It's a decision that impacts families with children in a big way—and puts a focus on women in the workplace.
Are decisions like Mayer's related to a broader cultural bias against women? Do biological differences between men and women account for the gender disparity in leadership positions in many industries? What do we even know ab...2013-03-2645 min
Point of InquirySamuel Arbesman - The Half-Life of FactsHost: Indre Viskontas
Because we live in an uncertain world, we arm ourselves with facts to gain a sense of control and therefore some modicum of comfort. We know that the sun will rise tomorrow even though it disappears tonight. But what happens when facts, those bits of information that we believed captured some fundamental truth about our world, are shown to be no longer true? With the exponential rise in our knowledge about our universe comes a tsunami of data overturning what we once thought we knew with complete certainty. Are there patterns that emerge from...2012-12-0440 minPoint of InquirySamuel Arbesman - The Half-Life of FactsHost: Indre Viskontas
Because we live in an uncertain world, we arm ourselves with facts to gain a sense of control and therefore some modicum of comfort. We know that the sun will rise tomorrow even though it disappears tonight. But what happens when facts, those bits of information that we believed captured some fundamental truth about our world, are shown to be no longer true? With the exponential rise in our knowledge about our universe comes a tsunami of data overturning what we once thought we knew with complete certainty. Are there patterns that emerge from...2012-12-0440 min
Point of InquiryDan Ariely - The Honest Truth about DishonestyHost: Indre Viskontas
There is no doubt that our world is populated with cheats and liars. Most of us, slaves to the availability heuristic, think of major cheaters like Bernie Madoff, Tiger Woods, and Barry Bonds as inflicting the most damage onto society. But just how honest are we, with others and with ourselves? The surprising finding from several studies conducted by Dan Ariely and his collaborators is that we all cheat. What's worse, the consequences of these little everyday deceptions can sometimes far outweigh the ill effects of even the biggest lies. Following up on his...2012-09-2532 minPoint of InquiryDan Ariely - The Honest Truth about DishonestyHost: Indre Viskontas
There is no doubt that our world is populated with cheats and liars. Most of us, slaves to the availability heuristic, think of major cheaters like Bernie Madoff, Tiger Woods, and Barry Bonds as inflicting the most damage onto society. But just how honest are we, with others and with ourselves? The surprising finding from several studies conducted by Dan Ariely and his collaborators is that we all cheat. What's worse, the consequences of these little everyday deceptions can sometimes far outweigh the ill effects of even the biggest lies. Following up on his...2012-09-2532 min
VoiceBoxSinging and the BrainConcetta Tomaino, executive director and co-founder of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function in New York and Indre Viskontas, a Bay Area-based opera singer with a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles in cognitive neuroscience, discuss the profound connection between our minds and voices.2012-08-1856 min