In this episode of the Research Digest Podcast, we discussed the article titled “Early adversitycauses sex-specific deficits in perforant pathway connectivity and contextual memory in adolescent mice”, published in Biology of Sex Differences Journal (Volume: 15, Article number: 39) in 2024 by BMC/Springer Nature. We talked with the leading author, Dr. Rafiad Islam, about the backgroundof the research work, major findings, and future perspectivesYOUTUBE LINK
GUEST INTRODUCTION
Rafiad Islam, PhD
Associate Research Scientist,
Yale School of Medicine
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 – Introduction
01:45 – Author’s career journey
06:35 – Early life adversity and related studies
19:49 – Starting of the project and initial experiments
28:10 – Other main findings of the study
44:40 – A challenging part of the study
47:23 – Why do men and women differ in terms of development?
51:20 – Future directions of the study
53:54 – Take home message