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This week on the On Your Mind Neuroscience Podcast: Kat has had a dramatic change in problems, and now has so much data she can’t stop working on it (literally), while Liam has realized that maybe it was a mistake to sign up for so many extracurricular activities. In what little spare time Kat has she's been searching for levity in the IgNobel Prizes - Personal favourites include the universal pee time and diagnosing appendicitis with speed bumps. Liam is interested in conflicts of interest this week, but insists he has nothing to disclose. Oh, and Kat accidently predicted the future last week now that Tom Insel has stepped down as director of the NIMH to take a job at the Google spinoff Life Sciences. This week’s paper is a plot study - or maybe a pilot of a pilot study - that takes an interesting approach to the search for Alzheimer's biomarkers by studying people with Down’s syndrome. A lot of the techniques are interesting, but we wish there was a little more data available before publication. In the title test we could see past the colon, but it turns out the length may reduce their citations. “The down syndrome biomarker initiative (DSBI) pilot: proof of concept for deep phenotyping of Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers in down syndrome” (OA) Thanks for listening! For links to our previous episodes head to www.onyourmind.ca