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Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

Ginger Campbell, MD

Brain Science is hosted by Ginger Campbell, MD. It explores how recent discoveries in neuroscience are unraveling the mystery of how our brains make us human. Full show notes and episode tra...

Episodes

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Announcement:

At the end of last month's episode I announced that it was the last regular episode of Brain Science . It has been 17 years since episode 1...

Jan 6, 2024
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BS 214 Seventeenth Annual Review Episode

This is the 17th Annual Review episode of Brain Science , celebrating the first episode which aired on December 15, 2006. We review the high...

52:27Dec 15, 2023

BS 213 Kevin Mitchell explores Free Will

In the this episode of Brain Science we talk with neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell about his new book Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free W...

01:26:15Oct 27, 2023

BS 212 Thomas Metzinger on "The Ego Tunnel" (Encore)

This month's episode of Brain Science features Thomas Metzinger, author of "The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self...

01:06:36Sep 22, 2023

BS 211 Molecular Biologist Seth Grant

This episode of Brain Science features the return of molecular biologist Seth Grant . We briefly review his decades of research into the com...

01:10:15Aug 25, 2023

BS 210 Introduction to Neurotransmitters

This episode is our first review of neurotransmitters since episode 8 way back in 2007. We start with some basics of neuron function and bra...

01:06:48Jul 28, 2023

BS 209 Luiz Pessoa "The Entangled Brain"

This month's episode of Brain Science is an interview with Luiz Pessoa, author of The Entangled Brain: How Perception, Cognition, and Emotio...

01:07:22Jun 23, 2023

BS 208 "Foolproof" with Sander van der Linden

This month's episode is an interview with Cambridge Psychology professor Sander van der Linden , author of " Foolproof: Why Misinformation I...

01:09:21May 26, 2023

BS 207 Luiz Pessoa "The Cognitive-Emotional Brain"

This month's episode is an encore presentation of an interview with neuroscientist Luiz Pessoa discussing his fascinating book " The Cogniti...

01:05:38Apr 28, 2023

BS 206: Paco Calvo explores Plant Intelligence

This month we have an intriguing interview with Dr. Paco Calvo from the Minimal Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Mercia in Spain...

01:16:04Mar 24, 2023

BS 205 Molecular Biologist Guy Caldwell (Part 2)

In this follow-up interview with molecular biologist Dr. Guy Caldwell we learn more about how the tools of molecular biology are used to unr...

01:03:35Feb 24, 2023

BS 204 Guy Caldwell: The Role of Molecular Biology in Neuroscience

This month's episode is an encore presentation of an interview with Dr. Guy Caldwell from the University of Alabama. Dr. Caldwell explains h...

01:15:59Jan 27, 2023

BS 203 Sixteenth Anniversary of Brain Science

This month's episode (BS 203) celebrates the 16th Anniversary of Brain Science with the annual review episode. This is a listener favorite p...

01:18:29Dec 23, 2022

BS 202 Is Meditation Mind Science? with Evan Thompson

The idea that meditation is a "mind science" is popular, but in this interview Canadian philosopher Evan Thompson argues that this claim doe...

53:08Nov 25, 2022

BS 201 Brain Development with Bill Harris

This month's episode of Brain Science is an interview with WA (Bill) Harris, author of Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built . We expl...

01:08:49Oct 28, 2022

BS 200 Embodied Cognition in Education with Sheila Macrine and Jennifer Fugate

This month's episode is a discussion with the editors of a fascinating new book Movement Matters: How Embodied Cognition Informs Teaching an...

01:18:55Sep 23, 2022

BS 199: Batja Mesquita on Cultural Origins of Emotion

This month's episode is an interview with Batja Mesquita, author of " Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions ." This is an important book...

01:02:41Aug 26, 2022

BS 198 Embodied Cognition with Evan Thompson

This month's episode of Brain Science is a free encore playing of my interview with Evan Thompson about his book Mind in Life: Biology, Phen...

56:12Jul 22, 2022

BS 197 Free Transcript: Frank Amthor "Neuroscience for Dummies"

This is the free transcript for Episode 197 with Frank Amthor, author of Neuroscience for Dummies . For unlimited access to all transcripts...

Jul 12, 2022

BS 197 (Encore) Neuroscience for Dummies with Frank Amthor

This month's episode of Brain Science features an encore playing of my interview with Dr. Frank Amthor, author of Neuroscience for Dummies a...

01:03:54Jun 20, 2022