Headshake

Who are you?! Oh, right. Hi, Jeff! Sorry about that. Our forgetting neurons were working particularly hard last night. Yes, you have neurons that make you forget. Turns out they're...

IN CASE OF EMERGENCY BREAK GLASS. Libby and Ruka are busy or dead. Either way, you get to listen to this episode recorded as a backup for times like these. Hear their joy, and reme...

Headshake's personal chef (a.k.a. Ruka's spouse) is also an electrical and electronic engineer. Steven A. Gago helps Libby and Ruka tackle the mysteries of newly-developed microcir...

In this elephant-themed episode, Headshake's male and female hosts talk about whether or not there are differences in the brain between the sexes. If there are, how do they get the...

Does listening to Headshake activate your fight or flight response? Or maybe it leaves you comfortably in your rest and digest state. Ruka and Libby talk about the differences betw...

Want to lose 1.5 pounds fast? Get a hemispherectomy! Libby and Ruka discuss research on highly-functioning adults who, for medical reasons, had half their brains removed as kids. K...

Libby and Ruka learn about the strange but harmless experience of being awake and not being able to move. This episode is brought to you by the letter P and delicious chocolate fro...

In an attempt to recover from the last episode's derailment by boy bands, Ruka speeds through an overview of the hypothalamus and the anterior pituitary. In the process, she discov...

A discussion of the hypothalamus and posterior pituitary gets derailed when Libby uncovers Ruka's painfully comprehensive reserve of 2000's boy band knowledge. Key Words anterior p...

Libby and Ruka use their artificial artificial intelligence to discuss how actual artificial intelligence helps researchers understand the ways the human brain values art. Celebrat...

It's Headshake's first guest ever! Theanne Griffith, Ph.D. joins as a third host to discuss her neuroscience research on specialized ion channels in cold sensation, as well as her ...

Can you feel it? Your pointer finger can. After a visit to the land of Complicatia, Libby and Ruka return to Gap Junction to discuss somatosensation and ask important personal ques...