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"Remembering" with Donald Mackay (BS 157)
Donald Mackay (click to play interview)This month ’s episode of Brain Sciencefeatures Dr. Donald Mackay, author of Remembering: What 50 Years of Research with Famous Amnesia Patient H.M. Can Teach Us about Memory and How It Works. H.M. may have been the most studied patient in history, but Mackay's work uncovers some surprising discoveries about the role of the hippocampus in language, as well as important implications for the aging brain.How to get this episode:FREE: audio mp3 (click to stream, right click to download)Coming Soon: Episode Transcript — delayed by illnessPremium Subscribers have unlimited acce...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - May 24, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Books Cognitive Science Interviews Language Memory Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Source Type: podcasts

Can fMRI Read Your Mind? (BS 156 with Russ Poldrack)
Russell Poldrack (click to play audio) This month’s episode of Brain Science is an interview with Stanford psychologist Russell A Poldrack, author of The New Mind Readers: What Neuroimaging Can and Cannot Reveal about Our Thoughts. We talk about the principles of how fMRI works and how new methods are overcoming some of the problems from the early days in the field. Because Dr. Poldrack has been in the field since its infancy, he is uniquely placed to give us both an overview of the history and an analysis of its progress. We emphasize several important principles that must be honored in...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - April 26, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Books brain imaging Interviews Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Psychology Source Type: podcasts

Neuroscience and AI with Paul Middlebrooks (BS 155)
Paul Middlebrooks host of Brain-Inspired podcast BS 155 is an interview with neuroscientist Paul Middlebrooks, host of the Brain-Inspired podcast. We explore the main theme of his show, which is the intersection between neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI).We explore topics such as Deep Learning and the challenges of interdisciplinary science. Neural nets and other forms of AI may be inspired by real neurons, but they are actually very different. On the other hand the scientists working AI have developed techniques for dealing with large amounts of data. These techniques...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - March 22, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Artificial Intelligence Interviews Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Source Type: podcasts

Successful Aging with psychologist Alan Castel (BS 154)
Alan Castel (Click to Play interview) BS 154 is an interview with Dr. Alan Castel, author of Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging. In the past we have discussed how our brain changes as we age, but it turns out successful aging requires more than "good genes." Our attitudes and our behaviors have a huge impact. More importantly, it is never too early to begin preparing for successful aging. How to get this episode:FREE: audio mp3 (click to stream, right click to download)Buy Episode Transcript for $3. [Free for Premium subscribers]Premium Subscribers have unlimi...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - February 22, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Books Interviews Memory Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Source Type: podcasts

Understanding the Brain with John Dowling (BS 153)
John E Dowling (click to play, right click to download mp3) Episode 153 of Brain Science is an interview with Harvard neuroscientist John Dowling. We talk about his latest book Understanding the Brain: From Cells to Behavior to Cognition with a special focus on vision. I first featured Dr. Dowling’s work back in BSP 4 and I am making this episode available as free extra content for users of the free Brain Science mobile app.Understanding the Brain is a book intended for students in other disciplines who want to get an overview of neuroscience. Meanwhile, those who are interested in ...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - January 25, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Brain Research Interviews Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Source Type: podcasts

12th Annual Review Episode (BSP 152)
Discussion of The Neuroscience of Emotion: A New Synthesis by Ralph Adolphs and David J. Anderson.AnnouncementsBrain Science is now available in Pandora.Unfortunately I have decided to cancel the trip to Australia that I had planned for May 2019 because too few listeners signed up.There will be some changes in Premium and Patreon subscriptions in January 2019:Premium subscribers have unlimited access to the entire back catalog of Brain Science podcasts, as well as transcripts, and Facebook Live audio.The new Premium rates will be $8.49 per month, $48 for six months, and $92 for a year. Current sub...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - December 28, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Brain Research Emotion Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Source Type: podcasts

Neuroscience of Emotion (BS 151)
Click image to play audio BS 151 is a discussion of The Neuroscience of Emotion: A New Synthesis by Ralph Adolphs and David J. Anderson. We talk about key ideas from the book and relate them to several previous episodes about emotion including interviews with Jaak Panksepp, Lisa Feldman Barrett and Luis Pessoa. How to get this episode:FREE: audio mp3 (click to stream, right click to download)Episode Transcript [Buy for $2] [Free for Premium and Patreon supporters]Premium Subscribers have unlimited access to ALL old episodes and transcripts, as well as extra...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - November 26, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Books Emotion Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Source Type: podcasts

Explore the Synaptome with Seth Grant (BS 150)
Seth Grant (click image to play interview) Dr. Seth Grant, director of the Genes To Cognition project in the UK, has been studying the molecular biology of the synapse for decades. This month marks his fourth appearance on Brain Science (BS 150). In his latest interview we discuss the findings of his latest paper in Neuron, and he also provides an overview of how this paper fits into his larger body of work. Longtime listeners will appreciate this update, but the material is also accessible to new listeners of all backgrounds.In earlier work Grant and his team discovered that vertebrate sy...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - October 26, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Brain Evolution Brain Research Interviews learning Memory Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Source Type: podcasts