Posted on September 24th, 2008 by docartemis
Recently Natasha Mitchell did an excellent two-part All in the Mind podcast about brain plasticity. In part 1 she interviewed Jeffrey Schwartz, MD and Norman Doidge, MD. Dr. Schwartz is the author of The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force and Dr. Doidge wrote the recent bestseller The Brain [...]
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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 June 17th, 2008 by docartemis
The June 14 Episode of All in the Mind has a thoughtful discussion of the implications of using drugs to improve cognitive performance. Natasha Mitchell interviewed Barbara Sahakian, professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Cambridge (UK) and William Glannon, a bioethicist from the University of Calgary (Canada). Several important issues emerged including the [...]
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Posted on May 13th, 2008 by docartemis
The May 10th episode of All in the Mind is an excellent discussion of the latest research about nicotine addiction. It includes a very balanced look at the controversy over the new smoking cessation drug, varenicline, which is sold in the US as Chantix. Nicotine has a unique effect on certain neurotransmitter receptors in the [...]
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Posted on April 1st, 2008 by docartemis
Most of you know that I am a fan of the All in the Mind podcast from Australian radio. I want to recommend the two most recent episodes:
The March 22 Episode is actually hosted by Volkart Wildermuth, from Germany. He interviews several of the world’s leading primate researchers. You will learn some of the recent [...]
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Posted on March 31st, 2008 by docartemis
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 February 15th, 2008 by docartemis
The latest episode of Talking Robots is an interview with Inman Harvey of the University of Sussex. He observes that when researchers attempt to build automous robots their approach is strongly influenced by their philosophy of mind, even if that philosophy is only implicit. He also points out that what he calls “good old-fashioned AI” [...]
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Posted on February 10th, 2008 by docartemis
The February 9th episode of All in the Mind is an excellent interview of author Jonah Lehrer about his book Proust was a Neuroscientist. In the interview Lehrer reflects on the danger of viewing science as the sole source of discovery, but he also talks a little about several of the people explored in his [...]
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Posted on February 6th, 2008 by docartemis
I just listened to the February 6, episode of Science Talk, the podcast from Scientific American.
Steve Mirsky talks with linguist Alice Gaby, from the University of California-Berkeley, about the relationship between language, culture, cognition and perception. This is very relevant to episode 30 of the Brain Science Podcast (due out on February 8), which [...]
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Posted on February 1st, 2008 by docartemis
In a recent interview with Dr. Edward Taub (Brain Science Podcast #28) we learned that Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy has been shown to help people with traumatic brain injuries, but that the Veteran’s Administration has been slow to acknowledge the needs of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Fortunately, the problem seems to be receiving increasing [...]
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