Neuronal Networks: The Salience Network

Send us a textWhat is salience? Fundamentally it is a value judgment that determines where your brain will place its limited resources. There are a lot of things that could draw our attention. The world is full of sights, sounds, smells, pressures, temperatures, stretches. Our mind is full of thoughts. Without a salience network, we wouldn’t know what matters and what doesn’t. We would just randomly scan our thoughts and the environment and hope what we are...

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A resource for psychiatrists and other medical or behavioral health professionals interested in exploring the neuroscientific basis of psychiatric disorders, psychopharmacology, neuromodulation, and other psychiatric interventions, as well as discussions of pseudoscience, Bayesian reasoning, ethics, the history of psychiatry, and human psychology in general.This podcast is not medical advice.  It strives to be science communication.  Dr. O'Leary is a skeptical thinker who often questions what we think we know.  He hopes to open more conversations about what we don't know we don't know.Find transcripts with show-notes and references on each episodes dedicated page at psydactic.buzzsprout.com.You can leave feedback at https://www.psydactic.com.The visual companions, when available, can be found at https://youtube.com/@PsyDactic.