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Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

BS 214 Seventeenth Annual Review Episode

Dec 15, 2023 · 52 min · Season 17 · Episode 214 · 50.6 MB
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This is the 17th Annual Review episode of Brain Science, 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:

  • BS 204 (Encore) and BS 205 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.
  • BS 206: Paco Calvo, PhD, author of Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Intelligence.
  • BS 207 (Encore): Luiz Pessoa, author of The Cognitive-Emotional Brain: From Interactions to Integration.
  • BS 208 Sander Van der Linden, author of Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity.
  • BS 209 Luiz Pessoa returned to talk about his new The Entangled Brain: How Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Are Woven Together.
  • BS 210 Basics of Neurotransmitters: a detailed introduction to neurotransmitters and the importance of receptor proteins.
  • BS 211 Seth Grant returned for a record 6th time. We reviewed his career and discussed recent discoveries about how synaptic proteins change as we age. Grant is my favorite guest because he makes complex ideas accessible to listeners of all backgrounds.
  • BS 212 (Encore) Thomas Metzinger, PhD, author of The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self.
  • BS 213 Kevin J Mitchell, PhD returned to talk about his new book Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will.
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