BS 179 14th Annual Review Episode
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
Release Date: 12/25/2020
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
At the end of last month's episode I announced that it was the last regular episode of . It has been 17 years since episode 1 was released on December 15, 2023 and I am extremely grateful to everyone who has listened and supported the show over all these years. I am also grateful that others have taken up the challenge of sharing neuroscience via podcasting. The main reason I have chosen to bring the show to an end is that I want to have the time and energy to immerse myself into my new life in New Zealand. I moved here from the US in August 2023. The main purpose of this post is to emphasize...
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This is the 17th Annual Review episode of , celebrating the first episode which aired on December 15, 2006. We review the highlights of 2023, which included both new guests and the return of several favorites. Episodes Released in 2023: and featured molecular biologist Guy Caldwell, PhD from the University of Alabama. Caldwell uses the tiny roundworm C. Elegans to search for potential treatments of Parkinson's Disease. , PhD, author of Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Intelligence. , author of The Cognitive-Emotional Brain: From Interactions to Integration. , author of Foolproof: Why...
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info_outlineIt's time for our 14th Annual Review Episode! Despite the challenges of 2020, it has been an outstanding year for Brain Science: the show passed 11 million downloads and Dr. Campbell released of second edition of Are You Sure? The Unconscious Origins of Certainty.
This episode is also a great introduction for new listeners. It can be enjoyed even if you haven’t listened to the episodes being discussed. A free transcript is also available for this episode.
Here is a list of this year's episodes:
- BS 165 (encore) Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, authors of Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions
- BS 166 Stephen Macknik describes new a visual prosthesis
- BS 167 Stanislas Dehaene, author of How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
- BS 168 Cecelia Heyes, author of Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking
- BS 169 (encore) R. Douglas Fields The Other Brain
- BS 170 Andreas Nieder, author of The Number Instinct
- BS 171 Matthew Cobb, author of The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience
- BS 172 György Buzsáki, author of The Brain from Inside Out
- BS 173 Excerpt from Are You Sure? The Unconscious Origins of Certainty by Virginia "Ginger" Campbell
- BS 174 Georg Northoff, author of The Spontaneous Brain: From the Mind–Body to the World–Brain Problem
- BS 175 Carol Tavris, co-author of Mistakes Were Made (but not by me)- an exploration of cognitive dissonance
- BS 176 Seth Grant explains synapse complexity
- BS 177 Bernard Baars and David Edelman talk about consciousness
- BS 178 Peter Sterling, author of What Is Health?: Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design
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