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an insight into the wonderful people, conversations, and topics that are present in my life. In any given week I end up talking about neuroscience, motherhood, education, feminist and a vari...

In this educational monologue Mandy talks about what is actually going on with the dopamine hits everyone talks about these days and then en...

an insight into the wonderful people, conversations, and topics that are present in my life. In any given week I end up talking about neuros...

an insight into the wonderful people, conversations, and topics that are present in my life. In any given week I end up talking about neuros...

Reflecting on what part of this experience we want to take forward...

This is a recording of my 4-year-old back in the summer when he was extra obsessed with poop and with porcupines, warthogs, and raccoons. He...

Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-psychology-of-conspiracy-thinking/id1316684637?i=1000467017701 Soundcloud: https://...

It’s December. Christmas season is well among us. It’s a crazy time of year for many people. Not me. But for many others. Here in this rant...

Me… ranting about gender, gender issues, gender reveal parties, gendered clothing, gender segregation, gender neutral, gender expansion, gen...

Me ranting about accessibility issues and the university system. No, I’m not actually lacking compassion for people’s needs. What I’m annoye...

EPISODE 2: Today, I share parts of my conversation with Lindsay about what compelled into this world. I love how she starts with it’s not li...

I am talking with my very dear friend, Lindsay. About 8 years ago, Lindsay got involved in the now famous cult, NXIVM, lead by Keith Raniere...

Alia and I speak for the first time during this conversation. We were introduced through email by a mutual friend, Paul, who we both know fr...

If you want to sit in on a class presentation on the research related to bisexuality please listen to this podcast! Vanessa is a MicroMaster...

I reflect on two examples of people asking for money, one good, one not-so good.

Dawn has spoken before about her sever mental health issues (e.g., Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, and Major Depressi...

Truth be told, Mandyland is not my main gig. I actually run a company on the side. ;) The Centre for Applied Neuroscience is where I do most...

Just a little recap of my experience with season two and forecasting what to expect for season 3. In case it interests you, look into the Mi...

A year ago Mike was diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma, a cancer of the kidneys. He had surgery 6 months later. His experience was, on pape...

Vanessa, who recently came out as Polyamorous , is questioning whether identifying a sexual orientation is enough to really capture all the...

Pets: We love them dearly, oftentimes more than the humans in our life. When they leave us it is one of the hardest things to experience. It...

Sarah just got news that one of her tumours (a liver tumour) shrunk! Yay! It appears to be from the radiation she had back in March, which i...

Tackling the science of [heterosexual] love is an interesting endeavour indeed. Lauren starts us off with the idea of three phases of love (...

My friend and colleague, Vanessa, recently came out as polyamorous. She’s been living this philosophy for a long time but I was not privy to...

The morning sounds of Costa Rica is such a great example of the diversity of their ecosystem. It makes me laugh thinking back to when I post...

In a (school) year when marijuana became legal, how could we resist the temptation to discuss the neuroscience side of this popular drug. Wi...

Sarah provides a spring update on where she's at with cancer. It’s been a year since her metastatic cancer diagnosis. More scans, treatment...

Join me for a sitting meditation. Find your comfortable sitting position, close your eyes, focus on your breath, listen to me talk about imp...

In this week’s episode, we explore one of the most crucial aspects of the human experience; memory. We start off with a phenomenon Lauren fi...

Summary: Humans experience and observe some of the most extravagant wonders and marvelous sights the world has to offer using the sense many...

For the second week of our Conversations with Neuroscience Students series, we discuss Nutrition and the Brain, which is a nice extension fr...

This is a guided meditation practice with a focus on breath awareness. It's one of several basic introductory meditations to help build conc...

In this episode, we dive into the world of health and wellness and how exercise affects the brain. We explore concepts such as CBR (cerebral...

I’m going to invite people into the process of my next project related to human intelligence and the need to rethink the way we see intellig...

After a few years of students from the second-year neuroscience class I teach at the University of Guelph-Humber asking for how they can lea...

Sarah Johnson Sat, Jan 19, 1:18 PM (2 days ago)to me In this episode, originally sent as a voice memo to Mandy and Mike, Sarah recounts the...

I’m with Sarah in San Diego, at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, a place we have been together many times. We had many slow(er t...

Mike and I got into a conversation about The Interoceptive Mind , a way of feeling our inner body provoked partially by a book that I picked...

Clearly, I have more important things to do with my time than creating episodes. Here’s a little snapshot into that. Note, this was recorded...

An introduction to focusing on the breath, a basic concentration practice that sets a foundation for meditating and for deepening your pract...

I reconnected with one of my favorite students from Ryerson. He was that super engaged student who asked good critical-thinking questions an...

I’m taking a Facebook Sabbatical… and this is why. Resources CBC episode with Jeron Lanier (the internet guy who talks about getting off soc...

An introduction to meditation with some pretty basic instructions with a bit of commentary.

In this monologue, Sarah recounts her feelings over the past 3 years of dealing with cancer both how it looked from the outside and how it f...

Today... I felt my existential depression... and am so glad I happened upon that term recently. For reference, I was reading from the book A...

Ok so Mike learned a whole bunch about the blockchain a while ago when we bought some bitcoin and ethereum and all that fun cryptocurrency s...

Sarah and I have been talking for a long time about her cancer but this conversation was planned as a way of starting her series of episodes...

At the end of Season One, I put out a call to listeners to send in voice-memo reactions to anything from Season One. Sarah replied and is no...

I love Paul’s curiosity about mental health, psychology, and neuroscience. We sat down at the Centre for Social Innovation, which is where w...

August 2018 might just be the last of me breastfeeding! This is a big one for me. I’ve been breastfeeding for 3 years and 2 months and I thi...

So we’re starting off with a doozy… me and Mike talk about his recent diagnosis of Renal Cell Carcinoma. Yup, that’s what’s been happening o...