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Stay ConnectedThe Think Neuro podcast from Pacific Neuroscience Institute takes you into the clinic, operating room and laboratory with doctors and surgeons who are tackling the most challenging brain diseases and disorders. You’ll go deep into the brain and beyond, exploring the neurological processes and structures that control our health, hormones, behaviors, movements, moods, and emotions. You’ll learn about new therapies that are giving hope for sufferers of the most challenging diseases, and you’ll hear about some habits you can develop to keep your brain in good working order for years to come. We’ll show you why patients from around the world are coming to Pacific Neuroscience Institute for novel treatments that are in many instances, available at few other institutions.
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The Think Neuro Podcast has two co-hosts, Anthony Effinger and Dan Fost.
Think Neuro host Anthony Effinger is an award-winning journalist fascinated by neuroscience and the workings of the brain.
Anthony spent 24 years at Bloomberg News, where he covered finance and made deep forays into science and health. In 2006, the Association of Health Care Journalists awarded him first prize for “Playing the Odds,” an in-depth look at changing strategies for treating prostate cancer.
After a stint at the World Bank, Anthony joined Willamette Week, the Pulitzer Prize-winning newsweekly in Portland, Oregon. He won the 2022 award for health care journalism from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for his piece on the disproven Covid remedy ivermectin and the anti-vaxx Portland biologist who was its biggest booster.
His 2023 examination of Oregon’s black-market psilocybin economy, “The Mushroom Underground,” won first prize in AAN Publishers’ exploratory reporting category. The Society of Professional Journalists Northwest gave him and colleague Lucas Manfield its top business award for “Junk Ambulances,” a 2023 exposé of private equity’s mismanagement of Multnomah County’s ambulance contractor.
In 2026, AAN awarded him first place for health care reporting for “Operation: Merger,” his examination of Oregon Health & Science University’s failed bid to merge with rival Legacy Health.
Raised in Copper Mountain, Colorado, Anthony lives in Portland with his wife, Diana Bianco. They raised two children there: one is a journalist, the other a fluids engineer.
Dan Fost is a veteran journalist who has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post. A former staff writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, he covers health, science, and technology, making complex subjects accessible to a broad audience. Dan has written extensively for the University of California, San Francisco, one of the nation’s leading health science universities, where he’s reported on leading scientists (including Nobel Prize winners), global health, and biotechnology innovations that have led to the launch of new companies. Dan is the author of “Giants Past and Present,” a book about the San Francisco baseball team. A native of New Jersey and a graduate of Boston University, Dan lives in Marin County, Calif., with his wife. They have one adult son.
