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.
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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 highlights of 2023, which included
Dec 15 2023 52 min
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 Will. While many neuroscientist
Oct 27 2023 1 h 26 min
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." Metzinger is a philosopher
Sep 22 2023 1 h 06 min
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 complexity of the protein structur
Aug 25 2023 1 h 10 min
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 brain anatomy, but the meat of th
Jul 28 2023 1 h 06 min
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 Emotion Are Woven Together.
This i
Jun 23 2023 1 h 07 min
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 Infects Our Minds and How to Buil
May 26 2023 1 h 09 min
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 Cognitive-Emotional Brain: From Intera
Apr 28 2023 1 h 05 min
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. We talk with him about his n
Mar 24 2023 1 h 16 min
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 unravel questions in neurobiology
Feb 24 2023 1 h 03 min
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 how tools from molecular biolog
Jan 27 2023 1 h 15 min
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 providing highlights and key id
Dec 23 2022 1 h 18 min
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 does not stand up to either scien
Nov 25 2022 53 min
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 explore how the human brain develop
Oct 28 2022 1 h 08 min
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 and Learning. We explore how emb
Sep 23 2022 1 h 18 min
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 because it describes the evidenc
Aug 26 2022 1 h 02 min
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, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of
Jul 22 2022 56 min
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 and the entire back catalogue
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 and Neurobiology for Dummies. I
Jun 20 2022 1 h 03 min
BS 196 Consciousness with Hakwan Lau
This month's episode of Brain Science is an interview with Hakwan Lau, author of In Consciousness we Trust: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Subjective Experience. Lau talks
May 27 2022 56 min
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I’ve been listening for a few years now and have found every show to be full of great information. My son has brain damage from cranial radiation as a child and I have gleaned nuggets of helpful ideas. I love her curiosity and eagerness to always know more.
MrsMarci · Nov 2023
As a public school teacher, I am repeatedly told that some new technique is worthwhile because it’s consistent with how the brain works. Representatives of companies come at us with amygdala and hippocampus, prefrontal decision making and brain stem automaticity, serotonin and dopamine, EKGs and fMRI evidence. But mostly it’s hogwash. Their claims amount to saying that students will improve their time running the mile if they strengthen their quads and they have just the product.
This show is a wonderfully rounded guide to brain science, appropriate for anyone who can pay attention. Dr. Campbell makes many different strands of brain science accessible, using technical vocabulary comprehensibly, which allows me to investigate fields that are relevant to me.
This has helped me build immunity to the commercial phrenology that so often tries to pass itself off as indisputable. Thank you, Ginger!
Peepsy Plum · Jan 2023
Dr. Campbell interviews authors of authoritative volumes which provide cogent overviews of specific areas of neurological research, rich with details. Fascinating stuff!
H. Wastrel · Jan 2023
Dr. Campbell has interviews some of the greatest minds trying to understand our brains and our humanity! She builds her interviews in a carefully organized crescendo so scientists and authors bring out illuminating answers.
Throughout the years, she has shared findings, trends , and challenges of neuroscience that bring insight to our thinking, doing,, and feeling. It’s knowledge everyone should have!
I am a big fan and supporter, I subscribe to be able to access episodes and go back to listen again and make connections.
Unlike many a podcast, her content is enduring: it will continue to be relevant if not in its accuracy, at the very least as a way to see the scientific method in action: how scientists make observations, generate hypotheses, test them and come up with theories, adjust them, discard them, and start anew.
romilunas · Sep 2021
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