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BrainPod is the podcast from the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, produced in association with Nature Publishing Group. Join us as we delve into the latest basic and clinical research that advance our understanding of the brain and behavior, featuring highlighted content from a top journal in fields of neuroscience, psychiatry, and pharmacology. For complete access to the original papers and reviews featured in this podcast, subscribe to Neuropsychopharmacology.


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Recent Episodes
  • Endocannabinoid contributions to the perception of socially relevant, affective touch in humans
    Mar 4, 2025 – 9:13
  • Sex differences in sensitivity to dopamine receptor manipulations of risk-based decision making in rats
    Jan 15, 2025 – 9:46
  • Biomarker development for menstrual Cycle affective change: the need for greater temporal, mechanistic, and phenotypic specificity.
    Dec 2, 2024 – 9:39
  • Genome-wide association studies of coffee intake in UK/US participants of European ancestry uncover cohort-specific genetic associations
    Aug 21, 2024 – 9:39
  • C-reactive protein moderates associations between racial discrimination and ventromedial prefrontal cortex activation during attention to threat in Black American women
    Jun 21, 2024 – 9:56
  • Ghrelin decreases sensitivity to negative feedback and increases prediction-error related caudate activity in humans, a randomized controlled trial
    May 6, 2024 – 9:06
  • Spotlighting SHAPERS: Sex hormones associated with psychological and endocrine roles
    Mar 5, 2024 – 9:08
  • Comparable roles for serotonin in rats and humans for computations underlying flexible decision-making
    Jan 4, 2024 – 9:33
  • Integrating public health and translational basic science to address challenges of xylazine adulteration of fentanyl
    Oct 16, 2023 – 9:58
  • The why, when, where, how, and so what of so-called rapidly acting antidepressants
    Sep 6, 2023 – 8:29
  • AI-based analysis of social media language predicts addiction treatment dropout at 90 days
    Jun 23, 2023 – 9:09
  • Oxytocin effects on amygdala reactivity to angry faces in males and females with ASPD
    Apr 21, 2023 – 9:27
  • To dismantle structural racism in science, scientists need to learn how it works
    Feb 22, 2023 – 9:54
  • Low doses of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) increase reward-related brain activity
    Dec 22, 2022 – 9:59
  • Sex-dependent risk factors for PTSD: a prospective structural MRI study
    Nov 1, 2022 – 9:29
  • Sex differences in appetitive and reactive aggression
    Sep 6, 2022 – 9:47
  • What’s wrong with my experiment?: The impact of hidden variables on neuropsychopharmacology research
    Jun 16, 2022 – 9:34
  • A scientific approach to navigating the academic job market
    May 9, 2022 – 7:04
  • Identification of THC impairment using functional brain imaging
    Feb 23, 2022 – 9:17
  • Evolution of prefrontal cortex
    Jan 31, 2022 – 9:22
  • Astrocyte-neuron signaling in the mesolimbic dopamine system: the hidden stars of dopamine signaling
    Nov 1, 2021 – 9:43
  • Neurobiology of loneliness: a systematic review
    Sep 13, 2021 – 8:11
  • Medial orbitofrontal cortex dopamine D1/D2 receptors differentially modulate distinct forms of probabilistic decision-making
    Jul 20, 2021 – 8:58
  • Addiction as a brain disease revised: why it still matters, and the need for consilience
    May 21, 2021 – 9:54
  • Big data in psychiatry: multiomics, neuroimaging, computational modeling, and digital phenotyping
    Mar 19, 2021 – 9:51
  • Acute dose-dependent effects of lysergic acid diethylamide in a double-blind placebo-controlled study in healthy subjects
    Jan 19, 2021 – 9:44
  • Big behavior: challenges and opportunities in a new era of deep behavior profiling
    Nov 4, 2020 – 9:31
  • Leveraging large genomic datasets to illuminate the pathobiology of autism spectrum disorders
    Sep 23, 2020 – 9:49
  • Pubertal adversity alters chromatin dynamics and stress circuitry in the pregnant brain
    Jul 10, 2020 – 9:28
  • Social networking and mental health: looking beyond frequency of use and towards mechanisms of action
    May 15, 2020 – 9:32
  • Distinct acute effects of LSD, MDMA, and D-amphetamine in healthy subjects
    Mar 6, 2020 – 9:07
  • Chronic opioid pretreatment potentiates the sensitization of fear learning by trauma
    Jan 17, 2020 – 9:18
  • Effects of MDMA on attention to positive social cues and pleasantness of affective touch.
    Sep 19, 2019 – 9:34
  • Superolateral medial forebrain bundle deep brain stimulation in major depression: a gateway trial.
    Jul 16, 2019 – 9:34
  • Cues play a critical role in estrous cycle-dependent enhancement of cocaine reinforcement
    May 17, 2019 – 9:34
  • Food Addiction: A Valid Concept?
    Mar 8, 2019 – 9:34
  • Sex Matters
    Jan 15, 2019 – 9:34
  • Recent advances in the study of aggression
    Nov 16, 2018 – 9:34
  • Neurocognitive effects of umami: association with eating behavior and food choice
    Sep 14, 2018 – 9:34
  • Burst activation of dopamine neurons produces prolonged post-burst availability of actively released dopamine.
    Jul 13, 2018 – 9:34
  • Debating the Persistence of Neurogenesis in Humans
    May 24, 2018 – 9:34
  • Considerations for the Use of DREADDs in Behavioral Neuroscience
    Mar 16, 2018 – 9:18
  • Neuropsychopharmacology Reviews: Cannabis and Cannabinoids: From Synapse to Society
    Jan 12, 2018 – 9:39
  • Opioid Release after High-Intensity Interval Training in Healthy Human Subjects
    Nov 10, 2017 – 6:15
  • Opioid Self-Administration is Attenuated by Early-Life Experience and Gene Therapy for Anti-Inflammatory IL-10 in the Nucleus Accumbens of Male Rats
    Sep 13, 2017 – 8:18
  • Beta-Adrenoceptor Blockade in the Basolateral Amygdala, But Not the Medial Prefrontal Cortex, Rescues the Immediate Extinction Deficit
    Jul 13, 2017 – 8:47
  • Arbaclofen in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder
    May 12, 2017 – 9:36
  • The Gateway Hypothesis of Addiction
    Mar 15, 2017 – 8:47
  • Sex as a Biological Variable: Who, What, When, Why, and How
    Jan 12, 2017 – 9:41
  • Neuropsychopharmacology Reviews: The Immunology of Behavior - Exploring the Role of the Immune System in Brain Health and Illness
    Dec 2, 2016 – 9:47
Recent Reviews
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    Robot vs Valley Girl
    What’s with the host’s robotic voice? She cannot be a real person. The I am to take seriously an interviewee who has all the gravitas of a cheerleader. Dull is putting it too kindly.
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