Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

This brief announcement is to correct a mistake I made in BS 148. For several months I have been talking about my trip to Australia in 2019. I have posted this brief audio to clarify that October 1 was the first day to put down your deposit for the trip (not the deadline). The dates in Australia will be May 20-30, 2018 and I have included the PDF with details with this announcement. There is room...

In this month's Brain Science Live (recorded via Facebook Live) I talked about BS 145 with Dr. Maryanne Wolf who has spent her career studying what happens in the brain when we learn to read. I got a lot of feedback about this episode and I respond to it here. Please visit our sponsor http://thegreatcoursesplus.com/ginger and sign up for the free trial. Thanks so much for your support.

This is the premium-ad free version of BS 149, which is an interview with Dean Burnett, author of  Happy Brain: Where Happiness Comes From, and Why . Please scroll (up/down) for other versions including the Premium episode transcript.

Brain Science 149 is an episode for listeners of all backgrounds. It is an interview with Dr. Dean Burnett, author of  Happy Brain: Where Happiness Comes From, and Why . We look beyond the hype about dopamine and consider how our social nature impacts our happiness. Complete show notes and episode transcripts are available at http://brainsciencepodcast.com .   Please visit our sponsor: http://theg...

This month's Facebook Live session was a discussion of BS 144 , which was about Language in the Brain. This audio is provided for Premium and Patreon supporters to show my appreciation for your support. Please visit our sponsor: http://thegreatcoursesplus.com/ginger CORRECTION: during the episode I talk about releasing the 2nd Edition of Are You Sure? The Unconscious Origins of Certainty.  I annou...

BS 148 is the interview with pioneering neuroscientist Dr. Eve Marder, which I originally recorded back in 2009. I am reposting it now as a follow-up to last month's review of Charlotte Nassim's excellent biography  Lessons from the Lobster: Eve Marder's Work in Neuroscience . The topics discussed in this interview are just as relevant as they were back then. A highlight of this interview is Dr. M...

For this month's session on Facebook Live I did a brief recap of BS 143, which was an interview with Elkhonon Goldberg about his new book Creativity . There is some listener feedback but I hope to have more next month. Remember next month we will be talking about BS 144, which was about Language in the Brain. You have until September 1 to submit questions or comments and of course, you can join me...

This is the Premium ad-free version of BS 147, which is a discussion of   Lessons from the Lobster: Eve Marder's Work in Neuroscience by Charlotte Nassim. Learn more about my 2019 trip to Australia at  http://brainsciencepodcast.com/australia2019 . Send me feedback at gincampell@mac.com.

BS 147 is a discussion of the new biography  Lessons from the Lobster: Eve Marder's Work in Neuroscience by Charlotte Nassim. This is an intellectual biography of one of neuroscientists least know pioneers. Dr. Marder was interviewed on this podcast back in BSP 56 , which is also now free to download. In this episode I take you through some of Dr. Marder's key discoveries. Her work is unique becau...

This premium episode is the audio file taken from our Facebook Live session recorded on July 5, 2018. It is a brief recap of BS 142 , which was an interview with Michael Graziano about Peripersonal neurons. The next Live recording is scheduled for August 2 at 8PM Central Time. Please submit questions and comments about BS 143 (Elkhonon Goldberg on Creativity) by August 1, for inclusion in that ses...

This is the Premium ad-free version of BS 146 with Alan Jasanoff, author of  The Biological Mind: How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are . Please note that the transcript will be posted separately to avoid confusion. Learn more about Premium and Patreon options at  http://brainsciencepodcast.com/donations .    

This is an interview with MIT neuroscientist, Dr. Alan Jasanoff about his book  The Biological Mind: How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are . We talk about what he calls the "cerebral mystique" and why it is important to remember because the brain is embodied it is not autonomous. The Mind is the result of the interaction of the brain, body, and its environment. Please...

BS 145 celebrates the return of Dr. Maryanne Wolf who was featured back in BSP 29 when we talked about her bestseller Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain . In this episode we talk about her recent book  Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century . Our focus is two-fold. First we consider the implications of the fact that while language is acquired naturally, reading is a c...

This is an interview with Dr. Angela Friederici, author of  Language in Our Brain: The Origins of a Uniquely Human Capacity . Her book is an extensive review of decades of research, but this interview provides an accessible introduction to listeners of all backgrounds. Don't miss our new monthly Facebook live sessions where listeners can submit questions about past episodes. Learn more at our Face...

This is the audio of our first Facebook Live session recorded on April 5, 2018. It is a brief review of BS 141, which was a interview with Dr. Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, author of "The Forgetting Machine: Memory, Perception, and the "Jennifer Aniston Neuron." Next month's FB Live session will be recorded on May 3rd, 2018. Please submit questions or comments about BS 142 with Michael Graziano anytime b...

BS 143 is an interview with Elkhonon Goldberg, author of  Creativity: The Human Brain in the Age of Innovation. This is the final version of the transcript. Please download it again if you accessed it before March 27, 2018. Please scroll down for the audio file for this episode.

BS 143 is an interview with Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg, author of  Creativity: The Human Brain in the Age of Innovation . We explore the roles of both the pre-frontal lobes and the right cerebral hemisphere, and we consider how the rapid rate of change may actually be decreasing the incidence of dementia by forcing older people to learn new skills rather than getting stuck in the rut of years of "auto-...

BS 142 is an interview with neuroscientist Michael Graziano about his latest book  The Spaces Between Us: A Story of Neuroscience, Evolution, and Human Nature . We explore the discovery of peripersonal neurons and discover how deeply they are imbedded in our daily lives. For show notes and complete transcripts go to http://brainsciencepodcast.com Send email to brainsciencepodcast@gmail.com  or sub...

This is the transcript for BS 141 , which is an interview with Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, author of  The Forgetting Machine: Memory, Perception, and the "Jennifer Aniston Neuron."  For information about Premium subscriptions go to http://brainsciencepodcast.com/premium . Scroll down for the audio mp3. Please note: this transcript was updated on 1/30/18. Please download the new version if you want the...

BS 141 is an interview with Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, author of  The Forgetting Machine: Memory, Perception, and the "Jennifer Aniston Neuron."   We explore how our brains construct both perception and memory, with an emphasis on meaning over exact detail. We also explore why this is important and how it makes humans very different from artificial intelligence. For detailed show notes and episode tra...

BS 140 is our 11th Annual Review episode. We look back at the highlights from 2017. New listeners will get a good feel for the ideas and guests that appeared, while regular listeners will have a chance to review a few key ideas. This year I also include a few highlights from the 2017 annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Please visit http://brainsciencepodcast.com for detailed show notes...

Jeff Hawkins founded Numenta in 2005, shortly after publishing his best seller "On Intelligence." Numenta's goal is to create a computer model of how the human cortex functions and more importantly advance our theoretical understanding of why it has the structure that it does. In BS 139 Hawkins describes some of his team's latest research and some exciting new ideas. Complete show notes and transc...

In BS 138 Dr. John Medina returns to discuss his latest book  Brain Rules for Aging Well: 10 Principles for Staying Vital, Happy, and Sharp . This is a lively discussion full of useful information for listeners of all ages. If you listen via the free Brain Science mobile app you also listen to Dr. Medina's original interview ( BSP 37 ), which is included as Bonus content. Full show notes and episo...

In BS 137 neuroscientist Seth Grant describes his surprising new discovery that brain complexity is controlled by a "genetic lifespan calendar" that determines the timing of brain changes through out the lifespan. We also explore the exciting implications of this discovery. Please visit http://brainsciencepodcast.com  for detailed show notes and episode transcripts. Our new sponsor is The Great Co...