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BS 171 Matthew Cobb, author of "The Idea of the Brain"

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

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Candace Perk - A Woman's Story

Candace Perk made the discovery of opiate receptors, which there are very few. She protested and for at least one of the prizes that Solomon Snyder was awarded, they did say kind of half shame-facedly: "Well, yeah, we can see that maybe there was an issue here" The key thing is she was a woman. Male graduate students have gotten credit in similar situations. It's mysterious. I can't think what must be going on. And I thought that was an important story for people to remember and to remember how things have changed and still not changed enough.

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