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 for 16 listeners. Please write to a brainsciencepodcast@gmail.com for more details. Also, I will be in Boston November 1-3 for the Sound Education event at Harvard. If you would like to get together just drop me an email.

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://thegreatcoursesplus.com/ginger Send feedback to brainsciencepodcast@gmail.com.

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 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.

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. Marder's insights into what it was like to be part of the first large cohort of women entering science back in the sixties and seventies. Send feedback about this episode to brainsciencepodcast@gmail.com. Feedback received before December 1, 2018 may be included in the December episode of Brain Science Live on Facebook. Brain Science Live is on Facebook Live the first Thursday of every month at 8PM Central Time, but the audio is recorded for Premium and Patreon supporters. Please visit this month's sponsors: http://thegreatcoursesplus.com/ginger http://babbel.com/ginger

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 LIVE on September 6 at 8PM Central and submit comments then.

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 because even as a graduate student she was challenging long held assumptions in her field. Although Nassim never mentions it, I strongly believe that Marder deserves a Nobel Prize and I explain why in this episode. This episode is more technical than usual and will be of special interest to students and working neuroscientists. For complete show notes and transcripts please visit http://brainsciencepodcast.com. Please visit our sponsors at http://thegreatcoursesplus.com/ginger and http://babbel.com. (An ad free version of this episode is available to Premium and Patreon supporters.)

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 session. Your feedback is greatly appreciated.