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About Melek Firat Altay

Melek Firat Altay is a neuroscientist, biologist and musician. Her research focuses on deciphering the molecular and cellular mechanisms of neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Melek Firat Altay is a neuroscientist, biologist and musician. Her research focuses on deciphering the molecular and cellular mechanisms of neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders.

NBN Episodes hosted by Melek Firat:

Neuroscience July 7, 2023

The Woman Who Couldn't Wake Up

Hypersomnia and the Science of Sleepiness

Quinn Eastman

Hosted by Melek Firat Altay
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Sleep was taking over Anna's life. Despite multiple alarm clocks and powerful stimulants, the young Atlanta lawyer could sleep for thirty or even fifty hours at a stretch. She stopped …
Science, Technology, and Society June 28, 2023

Science as a Cultural Human Right

Helle Porsdam

Hosted by Melek Firat Altay
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The human right to science, outlined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and repeated in the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, recognizes everyone's right …
Science June 24, 2023

The World Before Us

The New Science Behind Our Human Origins

Tom Higham

Hosted by Melek Firat Altay
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Fifty thousand years ago, Homo sapiens was not the only species of humans in the world. There were also Neanderthals in what is now Europe, the Near East, and parts …
Environmental Studies May 29, 2023

Less Heat, More Light

A Guided Tour of Weather, Climate, and Climate Change

John D. Aber

Hosted by Melek Firat Altay
Climate change is one of the most hotly contested environmental topics of our day. To answer criticisms and synthesize available information, scientists have been driven to devise increasingly complex models …
Film May 2, 2023

Madness at the Movies

Understanding Mental Illness through Film

James Charney

Hosted by Melek Firat Altay
The study of classic and contemporary films can provide a powerful avenue to understand the experience of mental illness. In Madness at the Movies: Understanding Mental Illness through Film (Johns …
Neuroscience April 3, 2023

Body Am I

The New Science of Self-Consciousness

Moheb Costandi

Hosted by Melek Firat Altay
How the way we perceive our bodies plays a critical role in the way we perceive ourselves: stories of phantom limbs, rubber hands, anorexia, and other phenomena. The body is …