Curiosity Daily Podcast: New Antibiotic Discovered by AI, How to Handle Traumatic Memories, and Why Extreme Temperatures Mess with Your Batteries
Learn about how to use focused attention to ease the memory of a traumatic event; why extreme temperatures mess with your batteries, and what you can do about it; and how researchers used machine learning to discover a powerful antibiotic for the first time.
March 16, 2020
Episode Show Notes:
Researchers ease the memory of traumatic events by having patients focus on neutral details by Kelsey Donk
- Focus on context diminishes memory of negative events, researchers report. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-02/uoia-foc020520.php
- Dolcos, F., Katsumi, Y., Bogdan, P. C., Shen, C., Jun, S., Buetti, S., Lleras, A., Bost, K. F., Weymar, M., & Dolcos, S. (2020). The impact of focused attention on subsequent emotional recollection: A functional MRI investigation. Neuropsychologia, 138, 107338. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107338
- Iordan, A. D., Dolcos, S., & Dolcos, F. (2018). Brain Activity and Network Interactions in the Impact of Internal Emotional Distraction. Cerebral Cortex, 29(6), 2607–2623. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhy129
Why Extreme Temperatures Mess With Your Batteries by Ashley Hamer: https://curiosity.com/topics/heres-why-extreme-temperatures-drain-your-batteries-curiosity
A powerful antibiotic was discovered using machine learning for the first time by Grant Currin
- E&T editorial staff. (2020, February 21). New antibiotic discovered using machine learning algorithm. Theiet.Org. https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2020/02/new-antibiotic-discovered-using-machine-learning-algorithm/
- Sample, I. (2020, February 20). Powerful antibiotic discovered using machine learning for first time. The Guardian; The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/feb/20/antibiotic-that-kills-drug-resistant-bacteria-discovered-through-ai
- Stokes, J. M., Yang, K., Swanson, K., Jin, W., Cubillos-Ruiz, A., Donghia, N. M., MacNair, C. R., French, S., Carfrae, L. A., Bloom-Ackerman, Z., Tran, V. M., Chiappino-Pepe, A., Badran, A. H., Andrews, I. W., Chory, E. J., Church, G. M., Brown, E. D., Jaakkola, T. S., Barzilay, R., & Collins, J. J. (2020). A Deep Learning Approach to Antibiotic Discovery. Cell, 180(4), 688-702.e13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.01.021
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