Episode Transcripts
Free transcripts are available for every episode of the Brain Science Podcast. Episodes that were cross posted from the Books and Ideas podcast appear at the bottom of the page.
Note: The transcript links below are correct, but it will be a while before we can fix the ones inside the episode show notes.
- 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 Nurture?, 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 (Transcript 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, PhD, 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 with 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, PhD, 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 Maryann Wolf (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 25: Interview with Rolf Pfeifer, PhD, 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 Maryann Wolf, PhD, 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, PhD, 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, PhD, author of The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 35: Discussion of Mirrors in the Brain: How our Minds Share Actions, Emotions, and Experience (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 36: Interview with Arthur Glenberg, PhD about Embodied Cognition (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 37: Interview with John Medina, PhD, author of Brain Rules (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 38: Interview with Jeff Hawkins, author of On Intelligence (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 39: Interview with Michael Arbib, PhD about Mirror Neurons (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 40: Mid-year Review episode from June 2008 (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 41: Interview with linguist, Alice Gaby, PhD (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 42: Discussion of Robert Burton’s book, On Being Certain (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 43: Interview with Robert Burton, MD, 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: Interview 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 Principles 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, PhD, 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, PhD (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, PhD, 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, PhD, about C. elegans: (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 60: Interview with Stuart Brown, PhD, author of Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 61: Interview with Allan Jones, PhD from The Allen Institute for Brain Research (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 62: Interview with Warren Brown, PhD, co-author of Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 63: Interview with David Bainbridge, PhD, author of Teenagers: A Natural History (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 64: Third Annual Year-end Review (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 65: Interview with Jaak Panksepp, PhD, author of Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 66: Interview with Randy Gallistel, PhD, co-author of Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science will Transform Neuroscience (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 67: Interview with Thomas Metzinger, PhD, author of The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 68: Interview with Peter Whitehouse, MD, 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, PhD, author of The Other Brain: From Dementia to Schizophrenia, How New Discoveries about the Brain Are Revolutionizing Medicine and Science (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 70: Interview with Scott Lilienfeld, PhD, co-author of 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 71: Fourth Annual Year-end Review (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 72: Interview with authors of Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 73: Interview with Lawrence Shapiro, PhD, author of Embodied Cognition (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 74: Interview with Olaf Sporns, Phd, author of Networks of the Brain (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 75: Interview with David Eagleman, PhD, author of Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 76: Interview with Sian Beilock, PhD, author of Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 77: Interview with Fabrizio Benedetti, MD, author of Placebo Effects, and, The Patient's Brain (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 78: Discussion of Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines---and How It Will Change Our Lives, by Miguel Nicolelis (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 79: Interview with Miguel Nicolelis, MD, PhD, author of Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 80: Fifth Annual Year-end Review (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 81: Interview with Patricia Churchland, PhD, author of Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 82: Discussion of Who's in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain, by Michael Gazzaniga, PhD (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 83: Interview with William Uttal, PhD, author of Mind and Brain: A Critical Appraisal of Cognitive Neuroscience (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 84: Update on Consciousness Research with Christof Koch, PhD, author of Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 85: Interview with Sebastian Seung, PhD, author of Conntectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 86: Interview with Rachel Herz, PhD, author of That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 87: Interview with Pamela Greenwood, PhD, co-author of Nurturing the Older Brain and Mind (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 88: Interview with Bruce Hood, PhD, author of The Self Illusion: How The Social Brain Creates Identity (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 89: Interview with Evan Thompson, PhD, author of Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 90: Discussion of Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 91: Interview with Jaak Panksepp, PhD, author of The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotion (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 92: Sixth Annual Review: Neuroscience Highlights for 2012 (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 93: Interview with Fernando Cervero, MD, PhD, author of Understanding Pain (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 94: Interview with Benjamin Bergen, PhD, author of Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 95: Understanding Pain; Part 2 of the Discussion of Pain begun in Episode 93 (Transcript PDF)
- Episode 96: Interview with Robert Burton, MD, author of A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind: What Neuroscience Can and Cannot Tell Us About Ourselves (Transcript PDF)
When new episodes are posted the transcripts will be posted here within a few days. Check the show notes for the latest episodes. All transcripts are free but donations are appreciated.
Additional Transcripts:
These are for episodes of Books and Ideas that have appeared in the Brain Science Podcast feed.
- Challenging Nature with Lee M. Silver (Transcript PDF)
- Is Free Will a Myth? (Transcript PDF)
- Dan Ariely: author of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Transcript PDF)
- Neurologist Steven Novella (Transcript PDF)
- Paul Offit, MD on Vaccine Safety (Transcript PDF)
- Bruce Hood, PhD on The Science of Superstition (Transcript PDF)
- Daniel George: Co-author of The Myth of Alzheimers's (Transcript PDF)
- Carol Tavris: co-author of Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) (Transcript PDF)
- Paul Offit, MD on the Dangers of the Anti-Vaccine Movement (Transcript PDF)
- Terrence Deacon, PhD, Author of Incomplete Nature (Transcript PDF)
- Jaak Panksepp, PhD, on Why Animal Emotions Matter (Transcript PDF)