Posted on March 28th, 2009 by Ginger Campbell, MD
The March 28th episode of All in the Mind is an excellent discussion of the controversy surrounding the meaning of adolescence. While some researchers point to the growing evidence that parts of the brain (such as the frontal lobe and its connections) do not mature until early adulthood as evidence that the adolescent brain [...]
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Posted on March 16th, 2009 by Ginger Campbell, MD
A few days ago I received an email from a listener asking me: Does the Limbic System Exist?
The term limbic system was made popular in the late 1970’s by Carl Sagan’s Pulitzer Prize winning book The Dragons of Eden, but in recent years many neuroscientists have come to regard the term as misleading or worse. [...]
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Posted on March 13th, 2009 by Ginger Campbell, MD
Episode 55 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with highly respected philosopher Patricia Churchland. Churchland is the author of Neurophilosophy and Brain?. She is currently on the faculty of the University of California at San Diego and she was a featured speaker at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in [...]
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Posted on March 10th, 2009 by Ginger Campbell, MD
Its time for me to gather some up-to-date information about whose listening to the Brain Science Podcast. Your help is greatly appreciated.
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Posted on March 2nd, 2009 by Ginger Campbell, MD
If you subscribe to this blog via email you may have received an annoying email containing summaries of 100 posts from last year. This was an accidental side effect of changing some settings in my blog software (WordPress). I have corrected this so it should not happen again. Thanks again for your on-going support. Ginger
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