Brain Science Podcast

In BSP 80 we look back at Year 5 of the Brain Science Podcast. We also reflect on what we have learned about brain health. This episode contains useful information for both new listeners and long-time fans.

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Episode 79 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Dr. Miguel Nicolelis author of "Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines---and How It Will Change Our Lives." We explore how his work is challenging some long-held assumptions about how the brain works.

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In BSP 78 host Dr. Ginger Campbell provides a short discussion of "Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines---and How It Will Change Our Lives" by Miguel Nicolelis. Dr. Nicolelis is best known for his work showing that a monkey can control a robot arm using only its brain. The focus of this episode is on what this work means for our understanding of how the brain works.

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I am putting Episode 43 of Books and Ideas into the Brain Science Podcast feed because it should be of interest to BSP fans. This episode is an interview with Carol Tavris, PhD, co-author of . We talk about the relationship between psychology and neuroscience as well as cognitive dissonance, which is the subject of Dr. Tavris's recent book Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts.

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This episode introduces the neurobiology of placebos, a complext, but fascinating area of research.BSP 77 is an interview with Fabrizio Benedetti author of "Placebo Effects: Understanding the mechanisms in health and disease" and "The Patient's Brain: The neuroscience behind the doctor-patient relationship."

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Corrections:

32:48 only NON-members are eligible to get a free audiobook download from our sponsor at http://audiblepodcast.com/brainscience/.

59:11 Dr. Benedetti’s first book is called Placebo Effects, not Placebo “responses”.

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Episode 76 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Dr. Sian Beilock, Director of the Human Performance Labortory at the University of Chicago and author of "Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To."

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Episode 75 is an interview with David Eagleman, author of "Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain."

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The next full episode of the Brain Science Podcast will be out next week. This short podcast contains useful information for all listeners. There is specific information for new listeners and also information about how to use http://brainsciencepodcast.com to learn more about each episode.

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Episode 74 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Dr. Olaf Sporns, author of Networks of the Brain, which is a comprehensive introduction to the application of Network Theory to Neuroscience. Network Theory is an important tool for dealing with the massive amounts of data being generated by our current technology. We discuss basic concepts and also explore some of the interesting discoveries that are being generated by this approach.

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The Brain Science Podcast is hosted by Ginger Campbell, MD. You may contact her at gincampbell at mac dot com or leave voice mail at 205-202-0663.

Episode 73 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Dr. Lawrence Shapiro from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Shapiro is the author of Embodied Cognition, which is an introduction to an approach that some researchers feel is a challenge to more established approaches to cognitive science that focus on representation and computation.

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