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Naked Neuroscience from Russia with Love!

From Russia with Love! Reporting from Lake Baikal in Siberia, in this special episode, Dr Hannah Critchlow reports from the Inaugural Siberian Neuroscience Conference, "From the Synapse to Networks and Disease", which was held from 5-9 June 2013.  Co-organised by the University of Dundee and Irkutsk Medical University, the conference highlighted cutting edge research in neuroscience, from basic molecular mechanisms to neural networks, behaviour and CNS disease. Hannah finds out how Russian neuroscience is getting a colossal injection of cash from the government, how nicotine switches off attention in the teenage brain, plus, a visit to a Russian sauna for a birch leaf whipping.....

Posted on 10/06/2013