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Ginger Campbell

Brain Science is hosted by Virginia "Ginger" Campbell, MD (Podcast Hall of Fame 2022).  She is an experienced physician with a passion for exploring how recent discoveries in neuroscience are revealing how our brains make us who we are. This podcast is for non-scientists, scientists, and everyone in between. It features interviews and discusses the latest books about the brain.

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

This 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.
 
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The complete show notes and episode transcript will be ready after Thanksgiving.
 
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Send feedback to brainsciencepodcast@gmail.com.

151 Premium Version (Ad Free); Emotion

This 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.

Brain Science Live #6: Live from Boston

This 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.
 
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BS 150 Premium Ad-free Version

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.
 
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Brain Science Live #5

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

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.
 
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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.

Brain Science Live #4: Language in the Brain

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.

Brain Science Live 3: On Creativity

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 Eve Marder's Life in Neuroscience- ad free version

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.

Brain Science Live #2

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

How many neurons does the typical human brain contain? The oft-quoted number of 100 billion turns out to have been a guess that was wrong! By a lot! Dr. Suzana Herculano-Houzel is the Brazilian neuroscientist who developed a revolutionary new technique for accurately counting the neurons in brains of all sizes. She shocked the scientific community when she determined that the average human brain contains only 86 billion neurons, but we still have more neurons in our cerebral cortex than any other species. Learn what all this means in Brain Science 133.
 
Please visit http://brainsciencepodcast.com for detailed show notes and episode transcripts.
 
Send email to Dr. Campbell at brainsciencepodcast@gmail.com or leave voice feedback at http://speakpipe.com/docartemis.

BS 133 Counting Neurons with Dr. Suzana Herculano-Houzel

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