Brain Science Podcasts

November 3, 2009 by colleen
Filed under Brain Science Podcasts, Brain Training to Improve Learning

Brain Science Podcast

BSP Summer Announcements
June 23, 2010, 2:35 pm
- The Brain Science Podcast is on summer break. The next new episode will come out in September 2010. This brief podcast contains suggestions for new listeners as well as information about upcoming live appearances by the show's creator and host Ginger Campbell, MD. It concludes with some details about the updated version of our iPhone application.

Details show notes and episode transcripts are available at http://brainsciencepodcast.com.
BSP 69: Glial Cells with R. Douglas Fields
May 12, 2010, 7:00 am
- Brain Science Podcast 69 is an interview with R Douglas Fields, PhD, author of "The Other Brain: From Dementia to Schizophrenia, How New Discoveries about the Brain Are Revolutionizing Medicine and Science." Glial cells are the non-neuronal cells of the nervous system. This interview explores the recent discovery that glial cells are able to monitor and influence signaling between neurons.

For detailed show notes and episode transcripts go to http://brainsciencepodcast.com.

Send email to Dr. Campbell at gincampbell at mac dot com.

Correction: The correct spelling for author of "The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle-Aged Mind" is Barbara Strauch. (My apologies to Ms. Strauch for misspelling her name on the podcast.)
BSP 68: Alzheimer's Disease with Dr. Peter Whitehouse
April 14, 2010, 3:00 am
- Episode 68 of the Brain Science Podcast (BSP 68) is an interview with Dr. Peter Whitehouse, author of "The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis." For detailed show notes and episode transcripts go to http://brainsciencepodcast.com.

Send feedback to Dr. Campbell at gincampbell at mac dot com.
BSP 67: Thomas Metzinger explores Consciousness
March 9, 2010, 7:00 pm
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Brain Science Podcast 67 is an interview with German philosopher Thomas Metzinger, author of The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self and Being No One. Dr. Metzinger argues that any credible model for how the brain generates the mind must incorporate unusual human experiences, such as so-called out of body experiences (OBE), and psychiatric conditions. In this interview we explore how OBE and virtual reality experiments shed light on how the brain generates the sense of self that characterizes normal human experience.

Detailed show notes and episode transcripts are available at http://brainsciencepodcast.com/.

Send feedback to Dr. Campbell at gincampbell at mac dot com.
Announcements for March 2010
March 2, 2010, 8:59 pm
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The next free episode of the Brain Science Podcast will appear on March 10, 2010.

Today's short podcast includes some advice for new listeners and information about the new premium versions of the Brain Science Podcast, which are available at http://brainsciencepodcast.com.

Episode 67 is now available both as a CD and as MP3 download. From now on new episodes will appear as premium content at the beginning of the month, while the free podcast will continue to come out the second week of the month.
BSP 66: Randy Gallistel on Memory and Computation
February 10, 2010, 12:00 pm
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Episode 66 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Randy Gallistel, PhD, co-author (with Adam Philip King) of "Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science will Transform Neuroscience." We discuss why read/write memory is an essential element of computation with an emphasis on the animal experiments that support the claim that brains must possess read/write memory. This is significant because current models, such as neural nets, DO NOT incorporate read/write memory in their assumptions about how brains work. It is not necessary to have any background in information theory or computation to appreciate the experiments that are discussed in this episode.

Go to http://brainsciencepodcast.com for detailed show notes and transcripts. A premium version of this episode contains additional content.

Send feedback to Dr. Campbell at gincampbell at mac dot com.
Extra: Books and Ideas #34: Bruce Hood
January 29, 2010, 9:00 am
- Extra Content: Episode 34 of Books and Ideas is an interview with Bruce Hood, author of "SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable." Dr. Hood is a developmental psychologist with a long-standing interest in why people believe weird things. In "Supersense" he argues that innate cognitive structures (how we think without being taught) give people a natural tendency toward belief in the supernatural. Our intuitive sense of how the world works is often at odds with the findings of modern science. In this interview we discuss the evidence for these conclusions and their implications. For shownotes and transcripts go to http://booksandideas.com/. Send Dr. Campbell feedback at gincampbell at mac dot com.
BSP 65: Affective Neuroscience with Jaak Panksepp
January 13, 2010, 5:12 am
- Episode 65 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Jaak Panksepp, PhD, author of "Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions."

For links, complete show notes and episode transcripts go to http://brainsciencepodcast.com.

Send Dr. Campbell feedback at gincampbell at mac dot com.
BSP 64: Year 3 Annual Review
December 9, 2009, 6:00 am
- Episode 64 of the Brain Science Podcast is our 3rd annual review episode. We take a look back at some of the main ideas from the episodes released in 2009 and also a look forward to 2010.

Show notes and episode transcripts are available at http://brainsciencepodcast.com. This month's show notes include a list of all the guests interview and all the books discussed in 2009.

Send feedback to gincampbell at mac dot com. You can also join our Discussion Forum at http://brainscienceforum.com or join our new Brain Science Podcast Fan Page.

If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch don't forget to check out the new Brain Science Podcast application in the iTunes Store.
BSP-63: David Bainbridge on the Teenage Brain
November 11, 2009, 6:00 am
- Episode 63 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with David Bainbridge, author of "Teenagers: A Natural History." We focus on how the brain changes during the teenage years and why this is so important on both the personal and the species level.

Show notes and episode transcripts are available at the main Brain Science Podcast website at http://brainsciencepodcast.com.

Send email to Dr. Campbell at gincampbell at mac dot com or leave voice mail at 206-984-0358.

Be sure to visit the iTunes Store to learn about the new BSP application, which is available for the iPhone and iPod Touch.