Brain Science Podcast

Episode 92 is the Sixth Annual Review Episode of the Brain Science Podcast. If you have been listening all year you will find this is a great way to revisit and remember some highlights and key ideas. IF you are a new listener this episode provides a nice overview of 2012, which included 10 interviews and 2 additional book reviews. Please visit http://brainsciencepodcast.com for links to all the episodes and the free episode transcripts.

Episode 91 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Dr. Jaak Panksepp, author of the pioneering textbook "Affective Neuroscience." In this episode we talk about his latest book "The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions." For decades Dr. Panksepp has been compiling evidence that the primary emotional processes begin in the lower (older) parts of the brain that are shared by all mammals. This latest book updates that evidence. Panksepp's work has the potential to revolutionalize neuroscience, much in the way that the discovery of brain plasticity over turned longstanding assumptions about the brain.

Complete show notes and free episode transcripts are available at http://brainsciencepodcast.com.

You can send Dr. Campbell email at gincampbell at mac dot com.

The music used in this episode is "The Open Door" by Beatnik Turtle.

Episode 90 of the Brain Science Podcast is a discussion of "Self Comes To Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain" by Antonio Damasio. Damasio's book focuses on the answer to two key questions: How does the brain generate the Mind? and How does the Brain generate Consciousness? His approach is unusual because many scientists and writers treat the Mind and Consciousness as identical. In contrast, Damasio argues that Mind proceeds Consciousness. Listen to this podcast to learn how the Mind becomes Conscious.

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Episode 89 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Dr. Evan Thompson, author of Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind.

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Episode 88 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Dr. Bruce Hood, author of "The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity."

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Episode 87 is an interview with Dr. Patricia Greenwood, co-author of "Nurturing the Older Brain and Mind." Our focus is on dispelling some of the most stuborn myths about brain aging as well as reviewing the current research about brain plasticity. There are lots of claims being made, especially for various computer training products, but we talk about what the research really shows.

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Episode 47 of Books and Ideas is being released simultaneously in the Brain Science Podcast feed. It is an interview with Terrence Deacon, PhD., author of "Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter." We talk about the ongoing quest to explain the emergence of life, mind, and purpose using the known laws of physics (with out the need for any supernatural extras).

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Episode 86 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Dr. Rachel Herz about her latest book "That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion."

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Please note: I have rated this episode as Explicit because there a brief discussion of sexuality.

A few days ago I released my first eBook: Are You Sure? The Unconscious Origins of Certainty. It is based on a couple of my favorite episodes of the Brain Science Podcast. It is available internationally via Amazon.com in the Kindle format. IBook and Nook versions will be coming soon, but anyone who buys the Kindle version now can get the PDF version for free by emailing me a copy of their Amazon receipt.

The next Brain Science Podcast will be out at the end of June.

My email is gincampbell at mac dot com.

Episode 85 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Sebastian Seung, author of Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are.

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