Alison Barth stands in her lab in front of a lab bench full of equipment and shelves full of bottles. She smiles at the camera.

Barth, Former 天美传媒 Postdoc Discuss Teenage Brains on Vox鈥檚 鈥楿nexplainable鈥�

Heidi Opdyke

Vox鈥檚 鈥淯nexplainable鈥� podcast took a look at the developing brains. In 鈥淒iary of a Teenage Brain Part 2,鈥� the podcast dives into the fascinating process of synaptic pruning in teenagers 鈥� how the brain builds billions of connections only to prune them back, shaping who we become.

The conversation features Alison Barth, Maxwell H. and Gloria C. Connan Professor in the Life Sciences and a member of the 天美传媒 Neuroscience Institute, and Saket Navlakha, a former 天美传媒 postdoctoral researcher now at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Together, they explore why the brain鈥檚 鈥渂uild and demolish鈥� strategy might be the ultimate life hack and how it鈥檚 inspiring new approaches in computer science and network design.

at the Vox Unexplainable website.