Episode Transcripts
Transcripts are now available for all episodes of the Brain Science Podcast. Just click on the links below to download a PDF of your favorite episode. Episode Transcripts are also available via our new iPhone application.
Episode 1: Discussion of Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life by Steven Johnson (Transcript PDF)
Episode 2: Discussion of On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins (Transcript PDF)
Episode 3: Discussion of In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R. Kandel (Transcript PDF)
Episode 4: Discussion of The Great Brain Debate: Nature Or Nuture? by John E. Dowling (Transcript PDF)
Episode 5: Consciousness: an introduction to philosophy of Mind (Transcript PDF)
Episode 6: Discussion of The First Idea: How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved from our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans by Stanley I. Greenspan and Stuart G. Shanker (Transcript PDF)
Episode 7: Interview with Stuart Shanker, PhD, co-author of The First Idea from Episode 6 (Transcript PDF)
Episode 8: How Neurons Communicate: a detailed discussion of neurotransmitters (Transcript PDF)
Episode 9: Discussion of The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow’s Neuroscience by Steven Rose (Download PDF)
Episode 10: Neuroplasticity: a discussion of Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain (Transcript PDF)
Episode 11: Discussion of Emotion: The Science of Sentiment by Dylan Evans (Transcript PDF)
Episode 12: Discussion of Memory: From Mind to Molecules by Kandel and Squire (Transcript PDF)
Episode 13: Unconscious Decision Making (Transcript PDF)
Episode 14: Review of the Brain Science Podcast‘s first six months (Transcript PDF)
Episode 15: Interview with Read Montague, author of Why Choose This Book?: How We Make Decisions (Transcript PDF)
Episode 16: Discussion of The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind (Transcript PDF)
Episode 17: Discussion of The Wisdom Paradox by Elkhonon Goldberg, PhD (Transcript PDF)
Episode 18: Interview with author Elkhonon Goldberg, PhD (Transcript PDF)
Episode 19: Review of Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer (Transcript PDF)
Episode 20: Interview of Dr. Louann Brizendine, author of The Female Brain (Transcript PDF)
Episode 21: Discussion of The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better by Sandra and Matthew Blakeslee (Transcript PDF)
Episode 22: Interview with Christof Koch, author of The Quest for Consciousness (Transcript PDF)
Episode 23: Interview with Sandra Blakeslee, author of The Body Has a Mind of Its Own (Transcript PDF)
Episode 24: Discussion of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf (Transcript PDF)
Episode 25: Interview with Rolf Pfeifer, author of How The Body Shapes the Way We Think (Transcript PDF)
Episode 26: Interview with Dr. Norman Doidge, author of The Brain That Changes Itself (Transcript PDF)
Episode 27: Year end Review Episode for 2007 (Transcript PDF)
Episode 28: Interview with Dr. Edward Taub, tapping brain plasticity for stroke rehabilitation (Transcript PDF)
Episode 29: Interview with Maryanne Wolf, author of Proust and the Squid (Transcript PDF)
Episode 30: Discussion of The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (Transcript PDF)
Episode 31: Interview with György Buzsáki author of Rhythms of the Brain (Transcript PDF)
Episode 32: A Brief overview of brain anatomy based on Beyond the Zonules of Zinn: A Fantastic Journey Through Your Brain by David Bainbridge (Transcript PDF)
Episode 33: Interview with John Ratey, MD author of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Transcript PDF)
Episode 34: Interview with Rachel Herz, author of The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell (Episode 34 Transcript PDF)
Episode 35: Discussion of Mirrors in the brain: How our minds share actions, emotions, and experience (Episode Transcript PDF)
Episode 36: Interview with Arthur Glenberg, PhD about Embodied Cognition (Episode Transcript PDF)
Episode 37: Interview with John Medina, PhD, author of Brain Rules (Download Transcript PDF)
Episode 38: Interview with Jeff Hawkins, author of On Intelligence (Transcript PDF)
Episode 39: Interview with Michael Arbib about Mirror Neurons (Transcript PDF)
Episode 40: Mid-year Review episode from June 2008 (Transcript PDF)
Episode 41: Interview with linguist Alice Gaby (Transcript PDF)
Episode 42: Discussion of Robert Burton’s book On Being Certain (Transcript PDF)
Episode 43: Interview with Robert Burton, author of On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You’re Not (transcript PDF)
Episode 44: Interview with Daniel Siegel, MD about Meditation and the Brain (Transcript PDF)
Episode 45: Interveiw with John J Ratey, MD about ADD (Transcript PDF)
Episode 46: Live from Dragon*Con 2008, about brain imaging (Transcript PDF)
Episode 47: Discussion of Prinicples of Brain Evolution by Georg Striedter (Transcript PDF)
Episode 48: Interview with Gary Lynch, PhD, about brain evolution (Transcript PDF)
Episode 49: Interview with Brenda Milner, pioneer neuroscientist (Transcript PDF)
Episode 50: Highlights from the 2008 annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Transcript PDF)
Episode 51: Interview with Seth Grant, PhD, about synapse proteomics (Transcript PDF)
Episode 52: Year 2 Review Episode (Transcript PDF)
Episode 53: Discussion of Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?: Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will by Nancey Murphy and Warren S. Brown (Transcript PDF)
Extra: Episode 25 of Books and Ideas (the interview with Dr. Paul Offit about Vaccine Safety) (Transcript PDF)
Episode 54: Interview with Dr. Michael Merzenich, pioneer of neuroplasticity (Transcript PDF)
Episode 55: Interview with neurophilospher Patricia Churchland (Transcript PDF)
Episode 56: Interview with neuroscientist Eve Marder, PhD (Transcript PDF)
Episode 57: Interview with neuropsychologist, Chris Frith, PhD (Transcript PDF)
Episode 58: Interview with Alva Noë, author of Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness (Transcript PDF)
Episode 59: Interview with Guy Caldwell about C Elegans: (Transcript PDF)
Episode 60: Interview with Stuart Brown, author of Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul (Transcript PDF)
Episode 61: Interview with Allan Jone, PhD from The Allen Institute for Brain Research (Transcript PDF)
Episode 62: Interview with Warren Brown, co-author of Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? (Transcript PDF)
Episode 63: Interview with David Bainbridge, author of Teenagers: A Natural History (Transcript PDF)
Episode 64: Third Annual Year-end Review (Transcript PDF)
Episode 65: Interview with Jaak Panksepp, author of Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions (Transcript PDF)
Episode 66: Interview with Randy Gallistel, co-author of Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science will Transform Neuroscience (Transcript PDF)
Episode 67: Interview with Thomas Metzinger, author of The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self (Transcript PDF)
Episode 68: Interview with Peter Whitehouse, co-author of The Myth of Alzheimer’s: What You Aren’t Being Told About Today’s Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Transcript PDF)
Episode 69: Interview with R. Douglas Fields, author of The Other Brain: From Dementia to Schizophrenia, How New Discoveries about the Brain Are Revolutionizing Medicine and Science (Transcript PDF)
Note: Links to Episode Transcripts usually appear in the show notes within a few days. For more recent episodes check the show notes first.
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