Posted on July 31st, 2008 by docartemis
In Episode 33 Futures in Biotech host Marc Pelletier, PhD interviews pioneering researcher Dr. Brenda Milner from the Montreal Neurological Institute. Dr. Milner is best known for her work with HM, the patient that she worked with for many decades. Her work helped neuroscientists appreciate the role of the hippocampus in memory and the [...]
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Posted on July 25th, 2008 by docartemis
Episode 42 of the Brain Science Podcast is a discussion of On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You’re Not by Robert Burton, MD. This part 1 of a two part discussion of the unconscious origins of what Dr. Burton calls “the feeling of knowing.” In Episode 43 I will interview Dr. [...]
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Posted on July 11th, 2008 by docartemis
Episode 41 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Alice Gaby, PhD, from the University of California-Berkeley. Dr. Gaby is a linguist who studies the role of language in cognition as well as the aboriginal languages of Australia. In this episode Dr. Gaby introduces some of the basic areas of linguistics. We [...]
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Posted on July 8th, 2008 by docartemis
Last year I interviewed Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg about the effects of aging on the brain (Episode 18). Dr. Elkhonon is the co-founder of the website SharpBrains™, which is an excellent place to find the latest information about brain health. Recently Dr. Alvaro Fernandez, who runs the SharpBrains™ website invited me to become an expert contributor [...]
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