Science Weekly podcast: Sebastian Seung on the connectome

Alok Jha meets neuroscientist Sebastian Seung who is professor of computational neuroscience at MIT and the author of Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are . Sebastian discusses our growing understanding of the brain's connections – the connectome – and how they correlate with the human genome. He also shows us how we can all get involved as citizen scientists in the mapping of the connectome . Plus, we delve into our archive for another great interview on the subject of the brain. Professor Barry Smith , director of the Institute of Philosophy at the University of London, discusses what happens when neural connections in the brain malfunction and how this causes disorders such as an inability to recognise faces and phantom-limb syndrome. Subscribe for free via iTunes to ensure every episode gets delivered. (Here is the non-iTunes URL feed ). Follow the podcast on our Science Weekly Twitter feed and receive updates on all breaking science news stories from Guardian Science. Email [email protected] . Guardian Science is now on Facebook . You can also join our Science Weekly Facebook group . We're always here when you need us. Listen back through our archive .