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Brain Science is a monthly podcast Brain Science, hosted by Ginger Campbell, MD. We explore how recent discoveries in neuroscience are helping unravel the mystery of how our brain makes us human. The content is accessible to people of all backgrounds.
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This month we celebrate the 17th anniversary of Brain Science with our 17th Annual Review episode. The first episode aired on December 15, 2006. We review the highlights of 2023, which included both new guests and the return of several favorites.
Topics included consciousness, free will, molecular biology, emotion, cognition, and the evidence for plant intelligence. We also reviewed neurotransmitters and how to combat misinformation.
Guests included Guy Caldwell, Paco Calvo, Luiz Pessoa, Sander van der Linden, Kevin Mitchell and Seth Grant, who appeared for a record 6th time.
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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In the this episode of Brain Science we talk with neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell about his new bookFree Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will. While many neuroscientists and philosophers argue that free will is an illusion, Mitchell argues that the ability to make meaningful choices is part of our evolutionary heritage. He also addresses the important issue of determinism, siding with those physicists who argue that the fundamental nature of our universe is NOT deterministic. These issues are crucial to how we see ourselves and others.
Links and References: Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Willby Kevin J. Mitchell * Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution by Carlo Rovelli * Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are*by Kevin J. Mitchell
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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 with a longstanding interest in Philosophy of Mind with a focus on incorporating the findings of neuroscience. We discuss the implications of the discovery that consciousness is a biological process generated by the interaction of the brain, body, and external world. Metzinger also emphasized the importance of considering altered states including dreaming, out of body experiences, and even virtual reality.
Links and References: The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self, by Thomas Metzinger * Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity*, by Thomas Metzinger * Blanke, et al., "Stimulating Illusory Own-Body Perceptions," Nature, 419:269-270 (2002) * O. Blanke & T. Metzinger, "Full-Body Illusion and Minimal Phenomenal Selfhood," Trends in Cognitive Neuroscience 13(1):7-13 (2009) * T. Metzinger, "Out of Body Experiences as the Origin of the Concept of a 'Soul,'" Mind and Matter 3(1):57-84 (2005) * Beyond the Body: An Investigation of Out of Body Experiences by Susan Blackmore
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This episode of Brain Science features the return of molecular biologist Seth Grant. We continue our discussion of the surprising complexity and diversity of the synapse.
BS 210 is an in-depth introduction to neurotransmitters with an emphasis on the essential role played by receptors.
BS 210 features neuroscientist Luiz Pessoa talking about his latest book The Entangled Brain: How Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Are Woven Together.
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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 Build Immunity. We discuss the important topic of how techniques like appealing to emotion contribute to the spread of misinformation. Dr. Campbell reflects on why this topic is important.
Our discussion began with the problem of the “Illusory truth” effect, which is the observation that the more often something is repeated the more likely people are to believe it is true, even when its not. This can defeat attempts to debunk misinformation. Van der Linden explained how the “truth sandwich” provides the safest method of debunking based on our current understanding of how memory works.
Then we talked about the key features of Conspiracy theories, which form a rather extreme version of misinformation that seem to be immune to evidence. Van der Linden described how conspiracy theories seem to be driven by three psychological motives: the need for knowledge that makes sense of the world, social connections with other believers, and the existential need to make sense of uncertainty. The seven signs of conspiracy thinking are easy to remember using the mnemonic CONSPIRE: Contradictory thinking, Overriding suspicion, Nefarious intent, Something must be wrong, Persecuted victim, Immunity to Evidence, Re-interpreting randomness.
Unfortunately mis-information really does spread more quickly than the facts. This is partly because it has characteristics that encourage its spread: novelty, appeal to emotion, appeal to morality, and being provocative. Another problem is that anti-science messages tend to be more interconnected since they interact with a wide variety of pseudoscientific sources.
It is clearly impossible to eliminate misinformation, which is why researchers like van der Linden are exploring the idea of mental immunity, which means teaching people to recognize the techniques and hopefully view information more critically. He described how his team has created video games that help “immunize” players against the classic tools of misinformation and propaganda including false dichotomies, scapegoating groups of people, polarizing, the use of emotions, impersonating or using fake experts. He closes with techniques that we can all use, even in everyday conversations. Of course, he emphasized the importance of being non-confrontational, since that almost never leads to the desired outcome.
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This month's episode of Brain Science is an encore presentation of an interview with neuroscientist Luiz Pessoa discussing his fascinating book The Cognitive-Emotional Brain: From Interactions to Integration. We explored the surprising role of the amygdala in decision making and learned that cognition and emotion are deeply intertwined at every level.
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This month's episode of Brain Science is 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 new book Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Intelligence.
We discuss the scientific evidence for plant intelligence while acknowledging that intelligence and consciousness are different phenomena. It is interesting to think of plants as demonstrating embodied cognition in contrast to the "intelligence" demonstrated by computer software. We also consider the pioneering work of Charles Darwin, who actually studied plant behavior before the invention of time lapse photography.
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BS 205 is a 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 and provide hope for better treatments for problems like Parkinson's Disease.
We learn about how gene editing techniques are used test the effects of single nucleotide changes in the neurons of the roundworm C. Elegans. This is possible because humans and C. Elegans share many genes. This makes it possible to economically explore a wide range of possibilities.
Dr. Caldwell’s lab at the University of Alabama provides a unique opportunity for undergraduates to participate in meaningful research and near the end of this interview he also share the accomplishments of several of his students.
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- Mew, M., Caldwell, K. A., & Caldwell, G. A. (2022). From bugs to bedside: functional annotation of human genetic variation for neurological disorders using invertebrate models. Human molecular genetics, 31(R1), R37–R46. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddac203
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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 biology make it possible to use the famous C. Elegans roundworm to improve our understanding of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's disease.
Dr. Caldwell will return to Brain Science next month to give us an update on his work.
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- Visit the Wormshack at the University of Alabama
- Meade, R. M., Fairlie, D. P., & Mason, J. M. (2019). Alpha-synuclein structure and Parkinson's disease - lessons and emerging principles. Molecular neurodegeneration, 14(1), 29. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13024-019-0329-1
- Gaeta, A. L., Caldwell, K. A., & Caldwell, G. A. (2019). Found in Translation: The Utility of C. elegans Alpha-Synuclein Models of Parkinson's Disease. Brain sciences, 9(4), 73. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci9040073
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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 ideas from the episodes of Brain Science that were posted in 2022. Topics included hearing, grief, emotion, embodied cognition, consciousness and more. Another highlight of 2022 was Dr. Campbell’s induction into the Podcast Hall of Fame.
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Free audio mp3 free episode transcript Listen in your Favorite Audio app: Audible, Amazon music, Pandora, Spotify, YouTube and many more. 2022 Episodes of Brain Science: BS 192 Nina Kraus, author of Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World * BS 193 The Embodied Mind: exploring the implications of embodied cognition * BS 194 Mary-Frances O’Connor, author of The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss * BS 195 David J Anderson, author of The Nature of the Beast: How Emotions Guide Us * BS 196 Hakwan Lau, author of In Consciousness we Trust: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Subjective Experience * BS 197 Frank Amthor, author of Neuroscience for Dummies and Neurobiology for Dummies * BS 198 Evan Thompson, author of Mind in Life: Biology. Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind * BS 199 Batja Mesquita, author of Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions * BS 200 Jennifer Fugate and Sheila Macrine, editors of Movement Matters: How Embodied Cognition Informs Teaching and Learning * BS 201 Bill Harris, author of Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built* * BS 202 Evan Thompson, on meditation and embodied cognition * Please visit http://brainsciencepodcast.com for more episodes.
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This month’s episode of Brain Science is an interview with Dr. Evan Thompson. We explore the claim that meditation is a mind science. Thompson shares his scientific and philosophical objections to this popular claim.
BS 201 is an interview with Bill Harris, author of Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built. Some of the recent discoveries may surprise you.
BS 200 is an interview with the editors of Movement Matters: How Embodied Cognition Informs Teaching and Learning. It is a continuation of our exploration of how embodied cognition challenges dualist approaches to the Mind.
BS 199 is an interview with Batja Mesquita, author of "Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions."
Brain Science #198 features a encore presentation of an interview with Evan Thompson, author of Mind in Life and other pioneering works about Embodied Cognition.
Brain Science #197 features an encore playing of my interview with Dr. Frank Amthor, author of Neuroscience for Dummies and Neurobiology for Dummies. It is a great episode for newbies and will be a good review for longtime listeners.
BS 196 features Hakwan Lau author of In Consciousness we Trust: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Subjective Experience.
Brain Science 195 is an interview with David J Anderson about his new book The Nature of the Beast: How Emotions Guide US. We talk about how emotion CAN be studied in animals by using methods that focus on brain states rather than verbal descriptions. He also explains why this experimental work is essential to developing more effective treatment of mental illnesses.
BS 194 is an interview with Mary-Frances O’Connor, author of The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss.
TBS 193 is an exploration of two big picture questions? What does it mean to say Mind is Embodied? and How does this change our understanding of our place in the world.
This month's episode of Brain Science is an interview with Nina Kraus, author of Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World .
BS 191 is our 15th Annual Review episode. We look back on the key ideas and highlight our guests, both old and new.
BS190 features David Badre, author of On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done. He shares practical applications fromrecent research about cognitive control.
Neurologist and bestselling author Antonio Damasio is one of our most requested guests. In BS 189 we talk about his new book Feeling and Knowing .
BS 188 is a fascinating interview with neuroscientist Anil Seth about his new book Being You: A New Science of Consciousness. He shares his Beast Machine theory of consciousness.
BS 187 is an interview with bestselling author and neuroscientist David Eagleman’s latest book Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain.
Episode 186 features Mark Humphries, author of The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds. We explore how the brain uses electrical signaling in surprising ways, beginning with a look at how an action potential (aka. "the spike") is produced. This episode is for listeners of all backgrounds.
Episode 185 features Stephen Fleming , author of Know Thyself: The Science of Self-Awareness.
In this month's episode of Brain Science, neuroscientist Mark Solms talks about his new book "The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Origins of Consciousness." Solms was inspired by the pioneering work of Jaak Panksepp who argued that the origins of consciousness can be traced to the brainstem. In his new book Solms presents the evidence for this viewpoint and explains how the work of computational neuroscientist Karl Friston has provided additional support. We consider the implications for our understanding of both human consciousness and our appreciation for the consciousness of other animals.
BS 183 features the return of Jeff Hawkins and we talk about his new book A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence, which shares the results of nearly two decades of research.
Brain Science 182 features an interview with Iris Berent, author of The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason About Human Nature. We explore how our inborn biases toward dualism and essentialism influence our response to both science and mental illness.
BS 181 features Sir Simon Baron-Cohen who was recently knighted for his contributions to autism research. We talk about his new book The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention.
BS 180 features E Bruce Goldstein, author of The Mind: Consciousness, Prediction, and the Brain. It is a great episode for listeners of all backgrounds and highly recommended to share with potential new listeners.
BS 179 is our 14th Annual Review Episode where we review the highlights and reflect on which ideas connected the diverse guests featured 2020. It is a great place to start if you are new to the show.
Brain Science 178 features Peter Sterling, author of What Is Health?: Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design. We explore the importance of the brain’s ability to predict the body’s needs (allostasis) and its role in human health and disease.
BS 177 is an interview with Dr. Bernard Baars, creator of the Global Workspace Theory that lead to many contemporary theories about how the brain generates conscious experience. He is joined by his colleague Dr. David Edelman.
Seth Grant (click to play audio)
BS 176 is my fifth interview with molecular biologist and neuroscientist Dr. Seth Grant from The University of Edinburgh. Dr. Grant was recently recognized for his pioneering work by the Federation of European Neuroscientists. He continues to make fundamental discoveries about the structure and function of the synapse and this month we discuss the discovery that synapse complexity and diversity is greater than expected, along with the implications of these discoveries.
Dr. Grant first appeared on Brain Science back in 2008. So in this interview, I also asked him to take us back through some of the key discoveries of his career. These include the discovery that the synapse is much more complex than previously assumed and the fact that this complexity preceded the evolution of animals with brains. More recently he has discovered that synapses are also more diverse than expected and that those in some parts of the brain are more complex than others.
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Links and References: Seth Grant: University of Edinburgh * FENS EJN Award 2020 * Cizeron M, Qiu Z, Koniaris B, et al. A brainwide atlas of synapses across the mouse life span. Science. 2020*;369(6501):270-275. doi:10.1126/science.aba3163 * Additional references are available in the episode transcript and in the show notes for previous episodes (Listed below)
Dr. Grant’s Previous Brain Science Interviews:* BSP 51: our first introduction to synapse complexity and evolution * BS 101: The role of the synapse in learning and disease * BS 137: How synapses change through out the lifespan * BS 150: Introducing the Synaptome and why it matters
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Carol Tavris (click to play audio, R click to download)
This month’s episode of Brain Science features an extremely timely interview with Dr. Carol Tavris, co-author of the newly released third edition of Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts. Cognitive Dissonance was actually discovered back in 1956 and it is one of the most well-replicated phenomena in experimental psychology. It also impacts many aspects of our lives, including politics, which is why I am grateful to have Dr. Tavris back on the podcast to help us explore this fascinating, but also disturbing topic.
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Links and References: Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson--- add aerio link * Books and Ideas 43* with Carol Tavris
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- Elliot Aronson and Carol Tavris, “The Role of Cognitive Dissonance in the Pandemic.” The Atlantic, July 12, 2020
- David Gal and Derek D Rucker. (2010) “When in doubt, shout! paradoxical influences of doubt on proselytizing.” Psychol Sci. 21(11):1701-7. doi: 10.1177/0956797610385953.
- Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump Ph.D. (July 14, 2020)
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Georg Northoff (click to play interview)
BS 174 is an interview with neuroscientist and philosopher Georg Northoff about his fascinating book The Spontaneous Brain: From the Mind–Body to the World–Brain Problem. We explore the significance of the growing evidence that most of the brain's activity occurs independently of external stimuli with a focus on the implications of this finding for our understanding of how the brain generates consciousness.
We recently explored the importance of the brain’s spontaneous activity with György Buzsáki (BS 172), but Northoff suggests a surprising implication. He proposes that if mental features such as consciousness and our sense of self are generated by the brain’s alignment with the world then perhaps we should abandon discussion of the so-called Mind-Body (or Mind-Brain) problem and instead consider the relationship between the world and the brain. This is what he calls the World-Brain problem.
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Links and References: The Spontaneous Brain: From the Mind–Body to the World–Brain Problem by Georg Northoff * The Brain from Inside Out by György Buzsáki (BS 172) * Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind by Andy Clark (BS 126) * Northoff G, et al. Is temporal-spatial dynamics the “common currency” of brain and mind? In Quest of “Spatiotemporal Neuroscience”. Why Life Rev (2019)*, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2019.05.002
(Link to Abstract) * Georg Northoff website: http://www.georgnorthoff.com (for videos, talks and additional papers * Episode Transcript contains additional references
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Virginia “Ginger” Campbell, MD
This month’s special episode of Brain Science features excerpt from the bestseller Are You Sure? The Unconscious Origin of Certainty by longtime host Dr. Ginger Campbell.. While it might seem ironic to talk about certainty during these extremely uncertain times, understanding how our brain generates the feeling of knowing or certainty is actually more relevant than ever.
Are You Sure? The Unconscious Origins of Certainty is based on several early episodes of Brain Science and highlights the work of retired neurologist Dr. Robert Burton. Both physicians are fascinated by the surprising discovery that most of what our brain does is outside conscious awareness. They explore the evidence behind this claim as well as its implications. Ultimately they agree that this discovery could encourage us all to have more compassion and tolerance for both ourselves and others.
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Links and References: Are You Sure? The Unconscious Origins of Certainty by Virginia "Ginger" Campbell, MD (Click here to buy) * A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind: What Neuroscience Can and Cannot Tell Us About Ourselves (2013) by Robert Burton * On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not* (2008) by Robert Burton * Project Implicit at implicit.harvard.edu * Dr. Campbell video with Jenn Grace: https://youtu.be/-ZY2Tah8EIU * Recent podcast appearances by Ginger Campbell
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