Exploring Brain And Spinal Injury Recovery With Neuroscientist Joshua Burda Ph.D.
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Joshua Burda Ph.D. joins the podcast to discuss how cells in the brain regulate response to injury and disease. As an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Joshua applies his knowledge as a biomedical neuroscientist to uncover new treatment paths for patients with neurological disabilities.
Joshua is interested in the functional recovery of neurological injuries, and his research reflects this. Over the course of his professional career, he has been published in multiple peer-reviewed scientific journals – including Nature, Neuron, and in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
Jump into the conversation to hear Joshua talk about:
- How spinal cord injury inhibits people's ability to live independent lives.
- The primary methods by which spinal cord injuries occur.
- How inflammation impacts brain and spinal cord injuries, and the importance of immune system response to traumatic events.
- The importance of maintaining a healthy cellular waste removal system.
Neurological diseases and injuries are among the hardest for scientists to understand and treat. Fortunately, professionals like Joshua are leading the charge toward a future of neuroscientific innovation!
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| 0:42.3 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius podcast, now part of the Finding Genius Foundation. I have a Joshua Bertha, PhD. |
| 0:45.3 | He's an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and the Department of Neurology |
| 0:50.3 | at Peter Cyanai. |
| 0:51.3 | And we're going to talk about his research and his work on how shells in the brain regulate the response to injury and disease. So Josh, thank you for coming. Yeah, thanks for having me. It's my pleasure to be here. Well, tell me a bit about your background and then I want to ask you about your current work. Yeah, sure, sure. Well, I guess I did some undergraduate training over at Michigan State. I actually grew up in Michigan. |
| 1:19.6 | And after that, pursued a PhD from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where most of my training was in the range of molecular neuroscience. |
| 1:28.9 | A lot of my interest has always been in how the brain and the spinal cord, which is your central nervous system, responds to injury and what these responses mean for things like repair and remodeling of this tissue to allow for people to get better after they |
| 1:34.1 | have things like traumatic injuries or even in the context of neurological disorders. What kind of |
| 1:39.7 | injuries, like concussions or? Yeah, yeah. So certainly things like concussions, traumatic brain injury has been a focus. |
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