Podcast Episodes featuring Suzana Herculano-Houzel
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657: Sizing Up Species’ Brains to Understand Nervous System Diversity and Development - Dr. Suzana Herculano-Houzel
People Behind the Science Podcast - Stories from Scientists about Science, Life, Research, and Science Careers - May 23, 2022 07:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 282 ratingsDr. Suzana Herculano-Houzel is a Professor of Psychology and Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University. In the lab, she compares brains to find out what they are made of and what difference that makes for the organism in terms of its abilities. She is interested in finding out how many neuron...
The Zeppos Report #12 with Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Vanderbilt University - October 09, 2017 14:08 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsNeuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel grew up in Rio De Janeiro with two academics as parents. She says that “informed criticism” was highly encouraged in her household, but her father—an economist—still sometimes wonders how he produced such a “rebel” scientist. In the latest episode of The Ze...
BS 133 Counting Neurons with Dr. Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone - April 26, 2017 22:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 703 ratingsHow many neurons does the typical human brain contain? The oft-quoted number of 100 billion turns out to have been a guess that was wrong! By a lot! Dr. Suzana Herculano-Houzel is the Brazilian neuroscientist who developed a revolutionary new technique for accurately counting the neurons in brai...
356: Sizing Up Species’ Brains to Understand Nervous System Diversity and Development - Dr. Suzana Herculano-Houzel
People Behind the Science Podcast - Stories from Scientists about Science, Life, Research, and Science Careers - August 01, 2016 07:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 282 ratingsDr. Suzana Herculano-Houzel is a Professor of Psychology and Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University. She received her B.S. in Biology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and completed her M.S. in Neuroscience at Case Western Reserve University. She was awarded her PhD i...