Posted on March 31st, 2008 by Ginger Campbell, MD
Brains Matter is a podcast about science from Australia. It was one of the shows on my ill-fated Podango™ Science channel and it is now one of the charter members of SCIENCEPODCASTERS.ORG. Unfortunately, I don’t have a chance to listen to it on a regular basis, but I want to recommend the most recent episode, [...]
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Posted on March 30th, 2008 by Ginger Campbell, MD
Diane Jacobs has put a great deal of effort into digesting Rhythms of the Brain by György Buzsáki. She has just finished an extensive discussion of Buzsáki’s interview in Episode 31 of the Brain Science Podcast. You can find this series on her blog, which she calls the Human Anti-Gravity Suit. She has also done [...]
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Posted on March 29th, 2008 by Ginger Campbell, MD
This post is a little over due! Sex Differences in the Brain: From Genes to Behavior (2007) by Jill Becker, Karen Berkley, Nori Geary, James Herman, and Elizabeth Young, is a book from Oxford University Press that is attracting quite a bit of attention. It was reviewed in the March 21st issue of Science, [...]
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Posted on March 21st, 2008 by Ginger Campbell, MD
Episode 33 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Harvard physician, Dr. John Ratey about his new book Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain.
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We explore the exciting evidence about how exercise helps the brain. It stimulates the release of a number of different neurotransmitters and neuropeptides, [...]
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Posted on March 20th, 2008 by Ginger Campbell, MD
With the help of Rob Walch at Wizzard™ Media, the enhanced version of Episode 32 (Brain Anatomy) is now available in the regular feed.
If you don’t use iTunes™ or Quicktime™ you will probably want to stick with the illustrations posted on this website.
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Posted on March 18th, 2008 by Ginger Campbell, MD
I want to apologize to anyone who got the “enhanced version” of episode 32 in their feed, but found that it had no graphics. The Brain Science Podcast is currently part of an ad campaign on Wizzard Media (Libsyn). They failed to tell us that the technology they use to insert ads will not [...]
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Posted on March 16th, 2008 by Ginger Campbell, MD
I have posted the illustrations I promised last week when I released episode 32 of the Brain Science Podcast. Except for the colored diagram of the lobes of the brain these illustrations come from Beyond the Zonules of Zinn: A Fantastic Journey Through Your Brain and have been used with the permission of [...]
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Posted on March 14th, 2008 by Ginger Campbell, MD
A recent episode of the Brain Science Podcast was an interview with György Buzsáki author of Rhythms of the Brain. The significance of brain oscillations is a complex and somewhat controversial subject, so it is not surprising that the episode had generated mixed reviews. It is quite challenging to present an area of this sort [...]
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Posted on March 8th, 2008 by Ginger Campbell, MD
There is an ongoing debate on the Brain Science Podcast Discussion Forum about whether the importance of embodiment is an essential obstacle to trying to simulate human cognition with computers. Meanwhile, the role of embodiment in cognition continues to be a growing area of research. I enjoyed a recent post on the Scientific American [...]
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Posted on March 7th, 2008 by Ginger Campbell, MD
Episode 32 of the Brain Science Podcast is a whirlwind (55 minute) tour of brain anatomy. It is based on David Bainbridge’s new book: Beyond the Zonules of Zinn: A Fantastic Journey Through Your Brain (2008). Click here for some of the key illustrations from the book. I want to thank David for sharing these [...]
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