Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
Brain Science is hosted by Virginia "Ginger" Campbell, MD (Podcast Hall of Fame 2022). She is an experienced physician with a passion for exploring how recent discoveries in neuroscience are revealing how our brains make us who we are. This podcast is for non-scientists, scientists, and everyone in between. It features interviews and discusses the latest books about the brain.Podcasts
BS 214 Seventeenth Annual Review Episode
Published: Dec. 15, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 27 seconds
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BS 213 Kevin Mitchell explores Free Will
Published: Oct. 27, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 15 seconds
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BS 212 Thomas Metzinger on "The Ego Tunnel" (Encore)
Published: Sept. 22, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 36 seconds
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BS 211 Molecular Biologist Seth Grant
Published: Aug. 25, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 15 seconds
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BS 210 Introduction to Neurotransmitters
Published: July 28, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 48 seconds
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BS 209 Luiz Pessoa "The Entangled Brain"
Published: June 23, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 22 seconds
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BS 208 "Foolproof" with Sander van der Linden
Published: May 26, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 21 seconds
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BS 207 Free Episode Transcript
Published: April 28, 2023, 9:30 a.m.Duration: N/A
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BS 207 Luiz Pessoa "The Cognitive-Emotional Brain"
Published: April 28, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 38 seconds
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BS 206: Paco Calvo explores Plant Intelligence
Published: March 24, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 4 seconds
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BS 205 Molecular Biologist Guy Caldwell (Part 2)
Published: Feb. 24, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 35 seconds
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BS 204 Guy Caldwell: The Role of Molecular Biology in Neuroscience
Published: Jan. 27, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 59 seconds
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BS 203 Sixteenth Anniversary of Brain Science
Published: Dec. 23, 2022, 10 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 29 seconds
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BS 202 Is Meditation Mind Science? with Evan Thompson
Published: Nov. 25, 2022, 10 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes 8 seconds
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BS 201 Brain Development with Bill Harris
Published: Oct. 28, 2022, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 49 seconds
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BS 200 Embodied Cognition in Education with Sheila Macrine and Jennifer Fugate
Published: Sept. 23, 2022, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 55 seconds
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BS 199: Batja Mesquita on Cultural Origins of Emotion
Published: Aug. 26, 2022, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 41 seconds
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BS 198 Embodied Cognition with Evan Thompson
Published: July 22, 2022, 9 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 12 seconds
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BS 197 Free Transcript: Frank Amthor "Neuroscience for Dummies"
Published: July 12, 2022, 8:33 p.m.Duration: N/A
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BS 197 (Encore) Neuroscience for Dummies with Frank Amthor
Published: June 20, 2022, 12:11 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 54 seconds
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BS 196 Consciousness with Hakwan Lau
Published: May 27, 2022, 9 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 16 seconds
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BS 195 Neuroscience of Emotion with David Anderson
Published: April 22, 2022, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 26 seconds
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BS 194 Mary-Frances O'Connor, author of "The Grieving Brain"
Published: March 25, 2022, 9 a.m.Duration: 54 minutes 1 second
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BS 193 "Embodied Mind:" What does this mean?
Published: Feb. 25, 2022, 10 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 54 seconds
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BS 192 Nina Kraus talks about Sound and the Brain
Published: Jan. 28, 2022, 10 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes 15 seconds
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BS 191 15th Annual Review Episode
Published: Dec. 22, 2021, 10 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 21 seconds
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BS 190 How our Brain gets things done with David Badre
Published: Nov. 24, 2021, 10 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 27 seconds
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BS 189 Antonio Damasio, author of "Feeling and Knowing"
Published: Oct. 29, 2021, 9 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 50 seconds
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BS 188 Anil Seth on Consciousness
Published: Sept. 24, 2021, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 44 seconds
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BS 187 David Eagleman on his new book "LiveWired"
Published: Aug. 27, 2021, 9 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 38 seconds
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BS 186 Mark Humphries author of "The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds"
Published: July 23, 2021, 9 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 54 seconds
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BS 185 Stephen Fleming on "the neuroscience of self-awareness"
Published: June 25, 2021, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 19 seconds
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BS 184 Mark Solms, author of "The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness"
Published: May 28, 2021, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 2 seconds
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BS 183 Jeff Hawkins shares his new theory of Intelligence
Published: April 23, 2021, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 12 seconds
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BS 182 Iris Berent author of "The Blind Storyteller"
Published: March 26, 2021, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 4 seconds
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BS 181 Sir Simon Baron-Cohen
Published: Feb. 26, 2021, 10 a.m.Duration: 44 minutes 33 seconds
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BS 180 E Bruce Goldstein
Published: Jan. 22, 2021, 10 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 48 seconds
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BS 179 Free Episode Transcript
Published: Dec. 25, 2020, 10:30 a.m.Duration: N/A
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BS 179 14th Annual Review Episode
Published: Dec. 25, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 43 seconds
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BS 178 Peter Sterling
Published: Nov. 27, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 40 seconds
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BS 177 Bernard Baars with David Edelman
Published: Oct. 23, 2020, 9 a.m.Duration: 57 minutes 38 seconds
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BS 177 Bernaard Baars with David Edeleman
Published: Oct. 23, 2020, 9 a.m.Duration: 57 minutes 38 seconds
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BS 176 Seth Grant on Synapse Complexity
Published: Sept. 25, 2020, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 32 seconds
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BS 175 Carol Tavris explains Cognitive Dissonance
Published: Aug. 28, 2020, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 26 seconds
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BS 174 Georg Northoff, author of "The Spontaneous Brain"
Published: July 24, 2020, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 1 second
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BS 173 Exploring the Unconscious Origins Of Certainty
Published: June 26, 2020, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 20 seconds
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BS 172 "The Brain from the Inside Out" with Gyorgy Buzsaki
Published: May 22, 2020, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 18 seconds
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BS 171 Matthew Cobb, author of "The Idea of the Brain"
Published: April 24, 2020, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 20 seconds
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BS 170 Numbers in the Brain with Andreas Nieder
Published: March 27, 2020, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes
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BS 169 Glial Cells with Doug Fields (Encore)
Published: March 13, 2020, 9 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 13 seconds
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BS168 Cecilia Heyes author of "Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking"
Published: Feb. 28, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 48 seconds
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BS 167 Stanislas Dehaene explores "How We Learn"
Published: Feb. 14, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 21 seconds
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BS 166: Stephen Macknik talks about Vision Research
Published: Jan. 24, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 20 seconds
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BS 165: Magic as a Tool for Understanding the Brain
Published: Jan. 10, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 42 seconds
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Brain Science 2020 (Trailer)
Published: Jan. 3, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 25 seconds
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BS 164 Thirteenth Annual Review Episode
Published: Dec. 20, 2019, 10 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 50 seconds
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Extra: Susan Schneider, author of "Artificial You"
Published: Dec. 15, 2019, 6 p.m.Duration: N/A
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BS 163 Christof Koch on the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness
Published: Nov. 22, 2019, 10 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 17 seconds
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BS 162 "Rethinking Consciousness" with Michael Graziano
Published: Oct. 25, 2019, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 13 seconds
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BS 161 Joseph Ledoux
Published: Sept. 27, 2019, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 53 seconds
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BS 160 Neuroscience of Consciousness
Published: Aug. 23, 2019, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 41 seconds
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BS 159 Kevin Mitchell, author of "Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are"
Published: July 26, 2019, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 40 seconds
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BS 158 Philosopher Patricia Churchland discusses "Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition"
Published: June 28, 2019, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 37 seconds
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BS 157 Donald MacKay, author of "Remembering: What 50 Years of Research with Famous Amnesia Patient H.M. Can Teach Us about Memory and How It Works"
Published: May 24, 2019, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 54 seconds
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BS 156 Russell Poldrack talks about Brain Imaging (fMRI)
Published: April 26, 2019, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 3 seconds
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BS 155 Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience with Paul Middlebrooks
Published: March 22, 2019, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 45 seconds
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BS 154 Alan Castel explores the psychology of successful aging
Published: Feb. 22, 2019, 10 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 49 seconds
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BS 153 "Understanding the Brain" with John Dowling
Published: Jan. 25, 2019, 10 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 22 seconds
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BS 152 Twelfth Annual Review Episode
Published: Dec. 28, 2018, 10 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 30 seconds
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BS 151 Neuroscience of Emotion
Published: Nov. 21, 2018, 10:28 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 10 seconds
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BS 150 Seth Grant Explores the Synaptome
Published: Oct. 26, 2018, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 35 seconds
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Announcements about Boston and Australia
Published: Oct. 13, 2018, 2 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 13 seconds
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BS 149 "Happy Brain" with Dr. Dean Burnett
Published: Sept. 28, 2018, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 52 seconds
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BS 148 Pioneering neuroscientist Eve Marder
Published: Aug. 24, 2018, 3:48 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 17 seconds
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BS 147: Eve Marder's Life in Neuroscience
Published: July 27, 2018, 1:53 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 59 seconds
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BS 146 Alan Jasanoff on The Biological Mind
Published: June 21, 2018, 1:10 a.m.Duration: 55 minutes 31 seconds
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BS 145 The Reading Brain with Maryanne Wolf
Published: May 25, 2018, 4:13 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 2 seconds
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BS 144 Language in the Brain with Angela Friederici
Published: April 27, 2018, 2:10 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 1 second
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BS 143 Creativity with Elkhonon Goldberg
Published: March 23, 2018, 9 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes 42 seconds
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BS 142 Michael Graziano explores Peripersonal Neurons
Published: Feb. 23, 2018, 3:14 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 2 seconds
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BS 141 Rodrigo Quian Quiroga on Memory and Perception
Published: Jan. 25, 2018, 1:35 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 25 seconds
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BS 140 Brain Science Review of 2017
Published: Dec. 22, 2017, 10:02 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 3 seconds
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BS 139 Jeff Hawkins from Numenta
Published: Nov. 27, 2017, 10 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 10 seconds
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BS 138 John Medina: Brain Rules for Aging Well
Published: Oct. 23, 2017, 4:50 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 8 seconds
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BS 137 Seth Grant: "Genetic Lifespan Calendar"
Published: Sept. 25, 2017, 9 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes 54 seconds
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BS 136 Why Reading Science Matters
Published: Aug. 28, 2017, 6:06 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 14 seconds
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BS 135 Lisa Barrett on How Emotions Are Made
Published: July 31, 2017, 6 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 19 seconds
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BS 134 Remember Jaak Panksepp, pioneer of Affective Neuroscience
Published: July 5, 2017, 3:03 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 58 seconds
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BS 133 Counting Neurons with Dr. Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Published: April 26, 2017, 10:05 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 10 seconds
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BS 132 William Uttal on the limitations of brain imaging
Published: March 31, 2017, 1:49 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 31 seconds
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BS 131: What is Mind? part 2 of our 10th Anniversary Retrospective
Published: Jan. 30, 2017, 2:50 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 33 seconds
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Brain Science 130 Ten Year Anniversary, Part 1 - The Early Years
Published: Dec. 21, 2016, 3:55 a.m.Duration: 42 minutes 28 seconds
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Brain Science: 10th Anniversary Preview
Published: Nov. 20, 2016, 9:42 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 15 seconds
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BS 129 Premium Transcript PDF: Brenda Milner, pioneering neuroscientist
Published: Oct. 5, 2016, 2:01 a.m.Duration: N/A
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BSP 129 Dr. Brenda Milner: Neuropsychology and the Study of Memory
Published: Oct. 5, 2016, 1:16 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 38 seconds
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BSP 128 Jon Mallatt: Primary Consciousness and Experience
Published: Sept. 1, 2016, 6:54 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 6 seconds
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Brain Science: Information for Listeners
Published: Aug. 23, 2016, 8:42 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 49 seconds
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BSP 127 Placebo Research Update with Fabrizio Benedetti
Published: March 1, 2016, 10:59 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 25 seconds
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BSP 126 Andy Clark on Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind
Published: Jan. 28, 2016, 2:22 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 58 seconds
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BSP 125 Ninth Annual Review Episode
Published: Dec. 23, 2015, 5:10 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 25 seconds
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BSP 124 After Phrenology with Michael Anderson
Published: Nov. 24, 2015, 12:45 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 11 seconds
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BSP 123 Phenomenology and Embodied Cognition with Anthony Chemero
Published: Oct. 28, 2015, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 59 seconds
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BSP 122 Neurobiology of Placebos
Published: Sept. 28, 2015, 11:51 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 39 seconds
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BSP 122 Neurobiology of Placebos (Encore)
Published: Sept. 28, 2015, 11:51 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 39 seconds
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BSP Summer Announcements
Published: Aug. 30, 2015, 9:47 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 33 seconds
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BSP 121 Interoception with Dr. AD (Bud) Craig
Published: July 28, 2015, 9 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes
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BSP 120 Ed Taub Part 2
Published: July 3, 2015, 12:20 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 1 second
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BSP 119 Dr. Ed Taub: Stroke Rehab and Brain Plasticity (neuroplasticity)
Published: May 25, 2015, 9:48 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 24 seconds
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BSP 118 FREE Episode Transcript
Published: April 29, 2015, 12:09 a.m.Duration: N/A
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BSP 118 Neuroanatomy for Everyone
Published: April 28, 2015, 11:38 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 7 seconds
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BSP 118 Neuroanatomy for Everyone (Encore)
Published: April 28, 2015, 11:38 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 7 seconds
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BSP 117: Michael Gazzaniga, father of cognitive neuroscience
Published: March 22, 2015, 12:40 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 37 seconds
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BSP 116 Norman Doidge, MD on "The Brain's Way of Healing"
Published: Feb. 22, 2015, 10:50 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 1 second
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BSP 115 Evan Thompson: Eastern Philosophy meets Western Neuroscience
Published: Jan. 29, 2015, 12:37 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 11 seconds
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BSP 114 Eighth Annual Review Episode
Published: Dec. 22, 2014, 10 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 1 second
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BSP 113 Dalai Lama at UAB
Published: Nov. 26, 2014, 7:31 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 22 seconds
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BSP 112 What do Mirror Neurons Do?
Published: Oct. 16, 2014, 12:08 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 24 seconds
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BSP 111 Exercise and the Brain
Published: Sept. 2, 2014, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 42 seconds
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BSP 111 Exercise and the Brain (Encore)
Published: Sept. 2, 2014, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 42 seconds
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extra episode: Dr. John Ratey Returns
Published: June 24, 2014, 9 a.m.Duration: 57 minutes 50 seconds
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BSP 104: 2013 Year End Review
Published: Dec. 26, 2013, 3:54 a.m.Duration: 57 minutes 14 seconds
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BSP 94: Linguist Benjamin Bergen
Published: Feb. 25, 2013, 10 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 35 seconds
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Extra: Why Animal Emotions Matter
Published: Feb. 15, 2013, 5:02 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 1 second
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BSP 92 Neuroscience Review with Transcript
Published: Dec. 28, 2012, 10 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 17 seconds
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Extra: Terrence Deacon on Books and Ideas
Published: July 16, 2012, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 51 seconds
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BSP 83: William Uttal: Is brain imaging the new phrenology?
Published: March 23, 2012, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 36 seconds
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BSP 80 Fifth Annual Review Episode with transcript
Published: Dec. 30, 2011, 10 a.m.Duration: 43 minutes 51 seconds
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BSP Extra: Cognitive Dissonance with Dr. Carol Tavris
Published: Oct. 4, 2011, 10:18 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 1 second
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Extra: Vaccines Save Lives!
Published: Jan. 31, 2009, 8 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 30 seconds
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BSP-52: 2nd Annual Review Episode
Published: Dec. 19, 2008, 7:23 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 29 seconds
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PROMO for Books and Ideas Podcast
Published: April 26, 2008, 3:03 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 24 seconds
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BSP-27: Year-end Review for 2007
Published: Dec. 28, 2007, 6 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 21 seconds
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