Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

Episodes

• 151 Premium Version (Ad Free); EmotionThis the Premium- Ad Free version of BS 151, which is a discussion of The Neuroscience of Emotion: A New Synthesis by Ralph Adolphs and David J. Anderson. Please visit our sponsors: The Great Courses Plus Babbel promo code ginger The complete show notes and episode transcript will be ready after Thanksgiving. Please scroll up/down for other versions. Send feedback to brainsciencepodcast@gmail.com.

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• Brain Science Live #6: Live from BostonThis Premium episode was recorded on Facebook Live on November 1, 2018. It includes a look back at BS 146, which was an interview with Alan Jasanoff, author of The Biological Mind: How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are. Our focus was on avoiding the "cerebral mystique," which includes the tendency to over emphasize neuroscience as a means of understanding the world. Ironically, I also included the presentation I gave at Sound Education the next day called Why Neuroscience Matters in which I argue that basic neuroscience literacy is essential in the 21st Century. As citizens we need an accurate understanding of how our brains really work, but we also need to appreciate that we are more than our brains, and solutions to our most difficult problems must include a recognition of the role of our environment and our interaction with the people around us.

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• BS 150 Premium Ad-free VersionThis is the Premium ad-free version of BS 150 with Seth Grant, the molecular biologist who has discovered surprising things about the evolution of the synapse, including the fact that vertebrates have much more complex synapses than invertebrates. In this interview we talk about his latest paper in Neuron in which his team has developed a method for mapping the synapses across the entire mouse brain. This is called a synaptome and reveals that there is surprising diversity depending on which part of the brain is examined. We discuss the implications of this discovery and how it suggests a new theory of how memory works. Even though this is a follow up to last year's interview (BS 137), Dr. Grant provides all the background that a new listener will need to appreciate his work. For complete show notes and episode transcripts please visit http://brainsciencepodcast.com. Please visit our sponsors Babbel and The Great Courses Plus. Please send feedback to brainsciencepodcast@gmail.com or leave voicemail via http://speakpipe.com/docartemis.

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• Brain Science Live #5In 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.

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• BS 149 Premium (Ad-Free) Version: Happy BrainThis 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.

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• Brain Science Live #4: Language in the BrainThis 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 announced September 15-30 as the time for this giveaway. Unfortunately, the book is not yet ready. I want to add a new chapter, so when its ready I will make a new announcement.

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• Brain Science Live 3: On CreativityFor 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 LIVE on September 6 at 8PM Central and submit comments then.

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• BS 147 Eve Marder's Life in Neuroscience- ad free versionThis 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.

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• Brain Science Live #2This 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 session. Your feedback is greatly appreciated.

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• BS 146 Premium Ad-free Version (Alan Jasanoff)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.

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