Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

This month's episode is an encore presentation of an interview with neuroscientist Luiz Pessoa discussing his fascinating book "The Cognitive-Emotional Brain: From Interactions to Integration." We explored the surprising role of the amygdala in decision making and learned that cognition and emotion are deeply intertwined at every level.

Links and References:

• The Cognitive-Emotional Brain: From Interactions to Integration by Luiz Pessoa
• Luiz Pessoa, PhD (University of Maryland)
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This month we have an intriguing interview with Dr. Paco Calvo from the Minimal Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Mercia in Spain. We talk with him about his new book Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Intelligence.

We discuss the scientific evidence for plant intelligence while acknowledging that intelligence and consciousness are not the same. It is interesting to think of plants as demonstrating embodied cognition in contrast to the "intelligence" demonstrated by computer software. We also consider the pioneering work of Charles Darwin, who actually studied plant behavior before the invention of time lapse photography.

Links and References:

• Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence by Paco Calvo
• Paco Calvo (University of Mercia, Spain)
• Gagliano, M., Vyazovskiy, V. V., Borbély, A. A., Grimonprez, M., & Depczynski, M. (2016). Learning by Association in Plants. Scientific reports, 6, 38427. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep38427
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In this follow-up interview with molecular biologist Dr. Guy Caldwell we learn more about how the tools of molecular biology are used to unravel questions in neurobiology and provide hope for better treatments for problems like Parkinson's Disease.

Links and References:

• Guy Caldwell, PhD (University of Alabama)
  • LinkedIn
  • BS 204 Encore of 2009 interview
• The Worm Shack
• Mew, M., Caldwell, K. A., & Caldwell, G. A. (2022). From bugs to bedside: functional annotation of human genetic variation for neurological disorders using invertebrate models. Human molecular genetics, 31(R1), R37–R46. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddac203
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This is the FREE transcript for BS 204 with Guy Caldwell.

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© copyright 2023 Virginia Campbell, MD

This month's episode is an encore presentation of an interview with Dr. Guy Caldwell from the University of Alabama. Dr. Caldwell explains how tools from molecular biology make it possible to use the famous C. Elegans roundworm to improve our understanding of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's disease.

Dr. Caldwell will return to Brain Science next month to give us an update on his work.

Links and References:

• Visit the Wormshack at the University of Alabama
• Molecular neurodegeneration, 14(1), 29. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13024-019-0329-1
• C. elegans Alpha-Synuclein Models of Parkinson's Disease. Brain sciences, 9(4), 73. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci9040073
• See show notes for BSP 59 for additional references.
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• brainsciencepodcast.com/donations

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This is the free episode transcript for BS 203, which is the 16th Annual Review Episode. Scroll down for the free audio file.

This month's episode (BS 203) celebrates the 16th Anniversary of Brain Science with the annual review episode. This is a listener favorite providing highlights and key ideas from the episodes of Brain Science that were posted in 2022. Topics included hearing, grief, emotion, embodied cognition, consciousness and more.

Note: This month's episode transcript is FREE.

• MasterClass at masterclass.com/ginger

• TextExpander at textexpander.com/brain-science

• BS 192 Nina Kraus, author of Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World

• BS 193 The Embodied Mind: exploring the implications of embodied cognition

• BS 194 Mary-Frances O'Connor, author of The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

• BS 195 David J Anderson, author of The Nature of the Beast: How Emotions Guide Us

• BS 196 Hakwan Lau, author of In Consciousness we Trust: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Subjective Experience

• BS 197 Frank Amthor, author of Neuroscience for Dummies and Neurobiology for Dummies

• BS 198 Evan Thompson, author of Mind in Life: Biology. Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind

• BS 199 Batja Mesquita, author of Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions

• BS 200 Jennifer Fugate and Sheila Macrine, editors of Movement Matters: How Embodied Cognition Informs Teaching and Learning

• BS 201 Bill Harris, author of Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built

• BS 202 Evan Thompson, on meditation and embodied cognition

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The idea that meditation is a "mind science" is popular, but in this interview Canadian philosopher Evan Thompson argues that this claim does not stand up to either scientific or philosophical scrutiny. As one of the pioneers of the Embodied Cognition movement Thompson reminds us that the Mind is not restricted to the Brain and we must also consider how other recent discoveries in neuroscience fail to support the claim that meditation provides neutral scientific insight into how the Mind really works.

Links and References:

• Evan Thompson's website
• Why I am not a Buddhist by Evan Thompson
• Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers by Kwame Anthony Appiah
• The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience by Francisco J. Varela, Evan T. Thompson, Eleanor Rosch
• Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind by Evan Thompson
  • discussed in BS 198
• Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy by Evan Thompson
  • discussed in BS 115
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• TextExpander at textexpander.com/podcast
• BetterHelp at betterhelp.com/GINGER
• MasterClass at MasterClass.com/ginger

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This month's episode of Brain Science is an interview with WA (Bill) Harris, author of Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built. We explore how the human brain develops from the fertilized egg up until birth. There are some surprises along the way, including the fact that we actually have more neurons before we are born than we will ever have again!

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• Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built by William A Harris
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• Text Expander at textexpander.com/podcast
• BettterHelp at betterhelp.com/ginger

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This month's episode is a discussion with the editors of a fascinating new book Movement Matters: How Embodied Cognition Informs Teaching and Learning. We explore how embodied cognition challenges long standing dualist approaches to both cognition and learning. Sheila Macrine and Jennifer Fugate also share some of the innovative approaches that improve both how we teach and how we learn.

Links and References:

• Movement Matters: How Embodied Cognition Informs Teaching and Learning edited by Sheila L. Macrine and Jennifer M.B. Fugate
• Recent episodes about Embodied Cognition:
  • BS 193 What does it mean to say the Mind is Embodied?
  • BS 198 Encore of interview with Evan Thompson
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• TextEpander at textexpander.com/podcast
• BetterHelp at betterhelp.com/ginger

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