Guests who have been on BSP

The Brain Science Podcast provides a unique opportunity for scientists and writers to discuss their work and ideas in depth. Here is a list of the guests who have been interviewed. The list is complete through May, 2010. Check the Show Notes for more recent guests. Click here for a list of available transcripts.

Michael Arbib, PhD: The role of mirror neurons in imitation and language; Episode 39.
Dan Ariely, Phd: author of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions was a guest on Books and Ideas #19.
David Bainbridge, PhD: author of Teenagers: A Natural History (Episode 63)
Sandra Blakeslee: co-author of The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better; Episode 23.
Stuart Brown, MD: author of Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul; Episode 60.
Warren Brown, PhD: co-author of Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?: Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will; Episode 62.
Robert A Burton, MD: author of On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You’re Not; Episode 43.
Louanne Brizendine MD: author of The Female Brain; Episode 20.
György Buzsáki, PhD: author of Rhythms of the Brain; Episode 31.
Guy Caldwell, PhD: Discusses the use of C. Elegans and offers guidance to future scientists. Episode 59.
Patricia Churchland, PhD: author of Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy; Episode 55.
Norman Doidge, MD: author of The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science; Episode 26.
R. Douglas Fields, PhD: author of The Other Brain; Episode 69.
Chris Frith, PhD: author of Making up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World; Episode 57.
Alice Gaby, PhD: Linguistics and its role in neuroscience; Episode 41
CR Gallistel, PhD: co-author of Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science will Transform Neuroscience; Episode 66.
Daniel George: co-author of The Myth of Alzheimer’s: What You Aren’t Being Told About Today’s Most Dreaded Diagnosis (BI35)
Seth Grant, PhD: Proteomics and the Evolution of the Synapse; Episode 51.
Arthur Glenberg, PhD: Embodied cognition; Episode 36.
Elkhonon Goldberg, PhD: author of The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind and The Wisdom Paradox; Episode 18.
Jeff Hawkins: author of On Intelligence; Episode 38.
Rachel Herz, PhD: author of The Scent of Desire: Discovering our Enigmatic Sense of Smell; Episode 34.
Bruce Hood, PhD: author of SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable; Books and Ideas 34.
Allan Jones, PhD: talked about the brain mapping projects at The Allen Institute for Brain Research; Episode 61.
Shella Keilholz, PhD: talked about brain imaging in Episode 46. (Recorded live at Dragon*Con 2008)
Christof Koch, PhD: author of The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach; Episode 22.
Gary Lynch, PhD: author of Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence; Episode 48.
Eve Marder, PhD: pioneer researcher of neural circuits; Episode 56.
John Medina, PhD: author of Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School; Episode 37.
Michael Merzenich, PhD: pioneered the study of brain plasticity; Episode 54.
Thomas Metzinger, PhD: author of The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self; Episode 67.
Read Montague, PhD: author of Why Choose This Book?: How We Make Decisions; Episode 15.
Brenda Milner, PhD: pioneering neuroscientist; Episode 49.
Alva Noë, PhD: author of Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness, Episode 58.
Jaak Panksepp, PhD: author of Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions; Episode 65.
Rolf Pfiefer, PhD: author of How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence ; Episode 25.
John J Ratey, MD: author of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain; Episode 33. In Episode 45 Dr. Ratey returned to talk about ADD.
Jason Schneiderman, PhD talks about brain imaging in Episode 46.
Stuart Shanker, PhD: How the study of communication among bonobos provides clues about the role of emotional signaling in the evolution of language; Episode 7.
Daniel J Siegel, MD: Meditation and the Brain; Episode 44
Edward Taub, PhD: revolutionary approach to stroke rehabilitation; Episode 28.
Peter Whitehouse, MD: co-author of The Myth of Alzheimer’s; Episode 68.
Maryanne Wolf, PhD: author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain; Episode 29.