BS 149 "Happy Brain" with Dr. Dean Burnett
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
Release Date: 09/27/2018
BS 174 Georg Northoff, author of "The Spontaneous Brain"
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
BS 174 is an interview with neuroscientist and philosopher Georg Northoff about his fascinating book "The Spontaneous Brain: From the Mind–Body to the World–Brain Problem." We explore the significance of the growing evidence that most of the brain's activity occurs independently of external stimuli with a focus on the implications of this finding for our understanding of how the brain generates consciousness.
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BS 173 Exploring the Unconscious Origins Of Certainty
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
In this special episode of Brain Science host Dr Ginger Campbell reads an excerpt from her bestseller "Are You Sure? The Unconscious Origin of Certainty." While it might seem ironic to talk about certainty during these extremely uncertain times, understanding how our brain generates the feeling of knowing or certainty is actually more relevant than ever.
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BS 172 "The Brain from the Inside Out" with György Buzsáki
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
In this episode I talk with neuroscientist György Buzsáki about his new book . We explore how abandoning what he calls the "Outside In" approach to understanding the brain can lead to surprising new insights. Links and References: by György Buzsáki MD PhD by György Buzsáki () Please visit for additional references and episode transcripts. Please Visit Our Sponsors: : Announcements: Please mark your calendar for June 16, 2020 to buy the second edition of Are You Sure? The Unconscious Origins of Certainty by Virginia "Ginger Campbell, MD. Everyone who buys the book in...
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BS 171 Matthew Cobb, author of "The Idea of the Brain"
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
This episode of Brain Science is an interview with neuroscientist Matthew Cobb author of "The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience."
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BS 170 Numbers in the Brain with Andreas Nieder
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
This is an interview with Andreas Nieder, author of "A Brain for Numbers: The Biology of the Number Instinct." We talk about the surprising discovery that a wide variety of animals have a number instinct, which is called the approximate number system. This appears to provide the basis for the more abstract mathematical abilities that are seen in humans. We also explore the relationship between mathematics and language.
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BS 169 Glial Cells with Doug Fields (Encore)
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
This episode is an exploration of glial cells with R Douglas Fields, author of "The Other Brain: The Scientific and Medical Breakthroughs That Will Heal Our Brains and Revolutionize Our Health." Glial Cells outnumber the neurons in our nervous system, but until the last few years they were thought to merely support cells. Dr. Fields takes us through the discovery that they have their own signaling methods and are much more important than we ever imagined.
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BS168 Cecilia Heyes author of "Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking"
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
BS 168 is an interview with psychologist Cecilia Heyes from Oxford University in the UK. We talk about her fascinating book Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking. Our focus is on exploring the evidence that several cognitive skills that appear to be unique to humans are learned from other people rather than being inherited genetically as is often assumed. The proposal that language is a cognitive gadget NOT a cognitive instinct is controversial and has very important implications.
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BS 167 Stanislas Dehaene explores "How We Learn"
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
This is an interview with Stanislas Dehaene about his new book How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now. According to neuroscientist Dehaene neuroscience has revealed that human babies are incredible "learning machines" whose abilities exceed those of the best current artificial intelligence. We explore why this is so and how this information could be used to help learners (and teachers) of all ages.
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BS 166: Stephen Macknik talks about Vision Research
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
Brain Science 166 features the return of neuroscientist Stephen Macknik. We talk about his recent work that is focused on developing a new visual prosthesis based on recent discoveries and techniques like optogenetics.
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BS 165: Magic as a Tool for Understanding the Brain
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
This episode is an encore presentation of an interview with neuroscientists Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde. We talk about their international bestseller "Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions." Macknik and Martinez-Conde are neuroscientists who study vision, but several years ago they had the innovative idea of collaborating with magicians to explore how their use of both visual and cognitive illusions reveals secrets about how our brains work.
info_outlineBrain 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.
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