Molecular Biologist Guy Caldwell (BS 204)
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This month's episode is an encore presentation of an interview with Dr. Guy Caldwell from the University of Alabama. Dr. Caldwell explains how tools from molecular biology make it possible to use the famous C. Elegans roundworm to improve our understanding of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's disease.Dr. Caldwell will return to Brain Science next month to give us an update on his work.
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Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - January 27, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Brain Research dopamine Encore Episode Interviews Neuroscience Source Type: podcasts
Highlights from Brain Science in 2022 (BS 203)
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This month's episode (BS 203) celebrates the 16th Anniversary of Brain Science with the annual review episode. This is a listener favorite providing highlights and key ideas from the episodes of Brain Science that were posted in 2022. Topics included hearing, grief, emotion, embodied cognition, consciousness and more. Another highlight of 2022 was Dr. Campbell’s induction into the Podcast Hall of Fame.Note: This month's episode transcript is FREE
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Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - December 23, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Cognitive Science Consciousness Embodiment For Newbies Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Review Episode Source Type: podcasts
Is Meditation a "Mind Science?" with Evan Thompson (BS 202)
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The idea that meditation is a "mind science" is popular, but in this interview Canadian philosopher Evan Thompson argues that this claim does not stand up to either scientific or philosophical scrutiny. As one of the pioneers of the Embodied Cognition movement Thompson reminds us that the Mind is not restricted to the Brain and we must also consider how ot...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - November 25, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Embodiment Interviews Meditation and the Brain Neuroscience Source Type: podcasts
How a Human Brain is Built (BS 201 with Bill Harris)
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This month's episode of Brain Science is an interview with WA (Bill) Harris, author of Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built. We explore how the human brain develops from the fertilized egg up until birth. There are some surprises along the way, including the fact that we actually have more neurons before we are born than we will ever have agai...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - October 28, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Books Brain Research Development Interviews Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Source Type: podcasts
BS 200 Embodied Cognition in Education and Learning
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This month's episode of Brain Science (BS 200) is a discussion with the editors of a fascinating new book Movement Matters: How Embodied Cognition Informs Teaching and Learning. We explore how embodied cognition challenges long standing dualist approaches to both cognition and learning. Sheila Macrine and Jennifer Fugate also share some of the innovative approaches that improve both how we teach and how we learn.Recent episodes about Embodied Cognition:BS 193 What does it mean to say the Mind is Embodied?...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - September 23, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Books Embodiment Interviews Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Source Type: podcasts
Emotion and Culture with Batja Mesquita (BS 199)
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This month's episode of Brain Science is an interview with Batja Mesquita, author of Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions. This is an important book because it describes the evidence that Emotions are not just something people experience "from the inside out," but they also occur between people, which means that culture plays a critical role. We also explore why it is important to appreciate why people from from different cultures may experience emotions in surprisingly different ways.
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Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - August 26, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Books Emotion Interviews For Newbies Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Source Type: podcasts
Embodied Cognition with Evan Thompson (BS 198)
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This month's episode of Brain Science is a free encore playing of my interview with Evan Thompson about his book Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind. We discuss how the enactive approach to embodied cognition offers potential clues to the mystery of how the brain can generate Consciousness. A free episode transcript is also available.The embodied cognition movement is an approach within cognitive neuroscience that includes philosophers, neuroscientists, psychologists and computer scientists. The key idea is that...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - July 22, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Encore Episode Books Embodiment Interviews Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Source Type: podcasts
"Neuroscience for Dummies" with Frank Amthor (BS 197)
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This month's episode of Brain Science features an encore playing of my interview with Dr. Frank Amthor, author of Neuroscience for Dummies and Neurobiology for Dummies. It is a great episode for newbies and will be a good review for longtime listeners.This is a FREE sample of my Premium content and the episode transcript is also FREE.
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Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - June 22, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Books Interviews Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes For Newbies Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 907: When the cats and mice are away, the viruses play
TWiV discusses the situation with monkeypox, risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 infections of cats and dogs, and a lineage-tracing mouse model for studying papillomavirus infections. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Monkeypox update (CDC) SARS-CoV-2 infection of cats and dogs (Emerg Inf Dis) Mouse papillomavirus identification (Vet Patrol) Mouse model for papillomavirus infection (eLife) Vincent interviews Harald zur Hausen (virology blog) Letters read on TWiV 907 Timestamps by Jolene. Th...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - June 12, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
Consciousness with Hakwan Lau (BS 196
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This month's episode of Brain Science is an interview with Hakwan Lau, author of In Consciousness we Trust: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Subjective Experience. Lau talks about shortcomings in current theories about how the brain generates consciousness, but he also introduces something he calls perceptual reality monitoring. Although this is a somewhat technical discussion it is accessible to listeners who are new to the neuroscience of consciousness.
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Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - May 27, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Books Consciousness Interviews Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Source Type: podcasts
Consciousness with Hakwan Lau (BS 196)
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This month's episode of Brain Science is an interview with Hakwan Lau, author of In Consciousness we Trust: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Subjective Experience. Lau talks about shortcomings in current theories about how the brain generates consciousness, but he also introduces something he calls perceptual reality monitoring. Although this is a somewhat technical discussion it is accessible to listeners who are new to the neuroscience of consciousness.
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Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - May 27, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Books Consciousness Interviews Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Source Type: podcasts
Creativity and wellbeing
Paula Redmond, clinical psychologist who supports healthcare workers experiencing burnout and other difficulties related to their job. Before this, she worked for the NHS until she experienced bullying, and a lack of support from her organisation, which made her strike out on her own.
In this wellbeing podcast, she describes the way in which her experience of bullying affected her, and how she used the creative process to help her move on.
She and Cat Chatfield discuss what creativity actually is, and why small projects can be just as useful as big complex ones - depending up on what you need at the time.
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Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 22, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Creativity and wellbeing
Paula Redmond, clinical psychologist who supports healthcare workers experiencing burnout and other difficulties related to their job. Before this, she worked for the NHS until she experienced bullying, and a lack of support from her organisation, which made her strike out on her own.
In this wellbeing podcast, she describes the way in which her experience of bullying affected her, and how she used the creative process to help her move on.
She and Cat Chatfield discuss what creativity actually is, and why small projects can be just as useful as big complex ones - depending upon what you need at the time.
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Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 22, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Neuroscience of Emotion with David J Anderson (BS 195)
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This month's episode of Brain Science (BS 195) is an interview with David J Anderson from Cal Tech. We talk about his new book The Nature of the Beast: How Emotions Guide US. We talk about how emotion CAN be studied in animals by using methods that focus on brain states rather than verbal descriptions. Dr. Anderson also explains why this experimental work is essential to developing more effective treatment of mental illnesses.This episode is a follow up to my discussion of The Neuroscience of Emotion: A New Synthe...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - April 22, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Brain Evolution Emotion Interviews Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Source Type: podcasts
BS 194 "The Grieving Brain" with Mary-France O'Connor
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The neuroscience of grief and grieving is a relatively new field, but one that offers practical discoveries for people of all backgrounds. This month we talk with Mary-Frances O’Connor, author of The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How we Learn from Love and Loss.We talk about what has been learned from a variety of approaches, including both brain imaging and, surprisingly even from animal studies. We learn why it is so hard for our brains to accept the loss of a loved one and this work of...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - March 25, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: For Newbies Interviews Podcast Show Notes Books Source Type: podcasts
