http://docartemis.com/brainsciencepodcast Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:23:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Neuroscience pioneer, Dr. Brenda Milner gave a memorable lecture on the history of memory research yesterday afternoon at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Before her talk she was greeted by old colleagues, including Nobel Laureate, Dr. Eric Kandel. (I was able to talk with Dr. Kandel briefly ... http://docartemis.com/brainsciencepodcast/2008/11/20/dr-brenda-milner-swamped-by-admirers/ Mary Petrosko from Dominican University was one of several students honored last night at a reception for winners of the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN) Travel Awards, held as a part of this year’s Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, which is being held through tomorrow in Washington, DC. Mary was ... http://docartemis.com/brainsciencepodcast/2008/11/18/from-neuroscience-2008-bsp-listener-wins-travel-award/ 30,000 scientists are attending the annual meeting of the Society of Neuroscience in Washington DC. To a neophyte attendee (like me) there seem to be at least that many lectures and posters to choose from. Yesterday I focused on attending several press events and I also enjoyed a featured lecture ... http://docartemis.com/brainsciencepodcast/2008/11/17/neuroscience-2008-emerging-themes/ At Saturday's Brain Awareness Campaign Event at Neuroscience 2008, Tom Carew, President-Elect of the Society for Neuroscience described his commitment to public outreach. The emphasis of the Brain Awareness Week campaign is on K-12 educational outreach. Dr. Carew and the other speakers noted that today's youngsters are tomorrow's neuroscientists. ... http://docartemis.com/brainsciencepodcast/2008/11/16/neuroscience-2008-incoming-president-of-sfn-emphasizes-public-outreach/ I am in Washington, DC to cover Neuroscience 2008, the anual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. But yesterday, thanks to Katheen Burke, PhD of USC, I also had opportunity to visit a poster session at the International Society of Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP), which is celebrating it 40th year. The ... http://docartemis.com/brainsciencepodcast/2008/11/15/isdp-celebrates-40-years-of-neuroscience-research/ Brain Science Podcast #49 is an interview with pioneering neuroscientist, Brenda Milner, PhD. Dr. Milner is known for her contributions to understanding memory and her work with split-brain patients. Her work as an experimental psychologist has been fundamental to the emergence of the field of cognitive neuroscience. This interview is ... http://docartemis.com/brainsciencepodcast/2008/11/07/49-milner/ [caption id="attachment_588" align="alignleft" width="82" caption="Gary Lynch"][/caption] Episode 48 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Gary Lynch, PhD, co-author (with Richard Granger) of Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence. Dr. Lynch has spent decades studying memory at the level of the synapse. His work with computer ... http://docartemis.com/brainsciencepodcast/2008/10/18/48-lynch/ Episode 47 of the Brain Science Podcast is a discussion of Principles of Brain Evolution by Georg F. Striedter. My goal is to highlight the main ideas of this complicated, and often controversial subject. Understanding the principles of brain evolution is an important element in our multidisciplinary attempt to ... http://docartemis.com/brainsciencepodcast/2008/10/04/podcast-47-brainevolution/ 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 ... http://docartemis.com/brainsciencepodcast/2008/09/24/aim-plasticity/ I am mystified by the polls that show how popular Sarah Palin with women voters, but today I got an email from a fan of the Brain Science Podcast who pointed me to a piece by Sam Harris that may shed some light on the phenomena. Harris is a neuroscientist ... http://docartemis.com/brainsciencepodcast/2008/09/22/why-do-so-many-women-like-sarah-palin/