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Episode transcripts are available for every episode of Brain Science (formerly the Brain Science Podcast). Premium Subscribers have unlimited access to all transcripts, but they may also be purchased individually for $1-3 each.
Episodes that were cross-posted from the Books and Ideas podcast appear at the bottom of the page.
Episode 1: Discussion of Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life, by Steven Johnson. [Transcripts for BSP 1-14]
Episode 2: Discussion of On Intelligence, by Jeff Hawkins. [Transcripts for BSP 1-14]
Episode 3: Discussion of In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind, by Eric R. Kandel. [Transcripts for BSP 1-14]
Episode 4: Discussion of The Great Brain Debate: Nature Or Nurture?, by John E. Dowling. [Transcripts for BSP 1-14]
Episode 5: Consciousness: An introduction to philosophy of mind. [Transcripts for BSP 1-14]
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. [Transcripts for BSP 1-14]
Episode 7: Interview with Stuart Shanker, PhD, co-author of The First Idea, from Episode 6. [Transcripts for BSP 1-14]
Episode 8: How Neurons Communicate: A detailed discussion of neurotransmitters. [Transcripts for BSP 1-14]
Episode 9: Discussion of The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow’s Neuroscience, by Steven Rose. [Transcripts for BSP 1-14]
Episode 10: Neuroplasticity: A discussion of Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain. ([Transcripts for BSP 1-14]
Episode 11: Discussion of Emotion: The Science of Sentiment, by Dylan Evans. [Transcripts for BSP 1-14]
Episode 12: Discussion of Memory: From Mind to Molecules, by Kandel and Squire. [Transcripts for BSP 1-14]
Episode 13: Unconscious Decision Making. [Transcripts for BSP 1-14]
Episode 14: Review of the Brain Science Podcast‘s first six months. [Transcripts for BSP 1-14]
Episode 15: Interview with Read Montague, PhD, author of Why Choose This Book?: How We Make Decisions. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 16: Discussion of The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 17: Discussion of The Wisdom Paradox, by Elkhonon Goldberg, PhD. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 18: Interview with author Elkhonon Goldberg, PhD. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 19: Review of Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious, by Gerd Gigerenzer. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 20: Interview with Dr. Louann Brizendine, author of The Female Brain. [Buy Transcript for $1]
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. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 22: Interview with Christof Koch, PhD, author of The Quest for Consciousness. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 23: Interview with Sandra Blakeslee, author of The Body Has a Mind of Its Own [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 24: Discussion of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain, by Maryann Wolf. [Buy Transcript for $2]
Episode 25: Interview with Rolf Pfeifer, PhD, author of How The Body Shapes the Way We Think. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 26: Interview with Dr. Norman Doidge, author of The Brain That Changes Itself. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 27: Year-end Review Episode for 2007. [Buy Transcript]
Episode 28: Interview with Dr. Edward Taub, tapping brain plasticity for stroke rehabilitation. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 29: Interview with Maryann Wolf, PhD, author of Proust and the Squid. [Buy Transcript for $2]
Episode 30: Discussion of The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 31: Interview with György Buzsáki, PhD, author of Rhythms of the Brain. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 32: A brief overview of brain anatomy based on Beyond the Zonules of Zinn: A Fantastic Journey Through Your Brain, by David Bainbridge. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 33: Interview with John Ratey, MD author of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 34: Interview with Rachel Herz, PhD, author of The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 35: Discussion of Mirrors in the Brain: How our Minds Share Actions, Emotions, and Experience. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 36: Interview with Arthur Glenberg, PhD about Embodied Cognition. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 37: Interview with John Medina, PhD, author of Brain Rules. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 38: Interview with Jeff Hawkins, author of On Intelligence. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 39: Interview with Michael Arbib, PhD about Mirror Neurons. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 40: Mid-year Review episode from June 2008, [Buy Transcript PDF]
Episode 41: Interview with linguist, Alice Gaby, PhD. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 42: Discussion of Robert Burton’s book, On Being Certain. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 43: Interview with Robert Burton, MD, author of On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You’re Not . [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 44: Interview with Daniel Siegel, MD about meditation and the brain. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 45: Interview with John J. Ratey, MD about ADD. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 46: Live from Dragon*Con 2008, about brain imaging . [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 47: Discussion of Principles of Brain Evolution, by Georg Striedter. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 48: Interview with Gary Lynch, PhD, about brain evolution. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 49: Interview with Brenda Milner, PhD, pioneering neuroscientist. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 50: Highlights from the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 51: Interview with Seth Grant, PhD, about synapse proteomics. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 52: Year 2 Review Episode. [Buy Transcript]
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. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Extra: Episode 25 of Books and Ideas (the interview with Dr. Paul Offit about Vaccine Safety. (Free Transcript PDF)
Episode 54: Interview with Dr. Michael Merzenich, pioneer of neuroplasticity. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 55: Interview with neurophilospher, Patricia Churchland, PhD. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 56: Interview with neuroscientist, Eve Marder, PhD. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 57: Interview with neuropsychologist, Chris Frith, PhD. [Buy Transcript for $1]
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. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 59: Interview with Guy Caldwell, PhD, about C. elegans. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 36: Interview with Arthur Glenberg, PhD about Embodied Cognition. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 37: Interview with John Medina, PhD, author of Brain Rules. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 38: Interview with Jeff Hawkins, author of On Intelligence. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 39: Interview with Michael Arbib, PhD about Mirror Neurons. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 40: Mid-year Review episode from June 2008, [Buy Transcript PDF]
Episode 41: Interview with linguist, Alice Gaby, PhD. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 42: Discussion of Robert Burton’s book, On Being Certain. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 43: Interview with Robert Burton, MD, author of On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You’re Not . [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 44: Interview with Daniel Siegel, MD about meditation and the brain. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 45: Interview with John J. Ratey, MD about ADD. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 46: Live from Dragon*Con 2008, about brain imaging . [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 47: Discussion of Principles of Brain Evolution, by Georg Striedter. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 48: Interview with Gary Lynch, PhD, about brain evolution. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 49: Interview with Brenda Milner, PhD, pioneering neuroscientist. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 50: Highlights from the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 60: Interview with Stuart Brown, PhD, author of Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 61: Interview with Allan Jones, PhD from The Allen Institute for Brain Research. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 62: Interview with Warren Brown, PhD, co-author of Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 63: Interview with David Bainbridge, PhD, author of Teenagers: A Natural History. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 64: Third Annual Year-end Review. [Buy Transcript]
Episode 65: Interview with Jaak Panksepp, PhD, author of Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 66: Interview with Randy Gallistel, PhD, co-author of Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science will Transform Neuroscience. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 67: Interview with Thomas Metzinger, PhD, author of The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self [Buy Transcript for $1]
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. [Buy Transcript for $1]
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. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 70: Interview with Scott Lilienfeld, PhD, co-author of 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 71: Fourth Annual Year-end Review. [Buy Transcript]
Episode 72: Interview with authors of Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 73: Interview with Lawrence Shapiro, PhD, author of Embodied Cognition. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 74: Interview with Olaf Sporns, Phd, author of Networks of the Brain. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 75: Interview with David Eagleman, PhD, author of Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain. [Buy Transcript for $1]
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. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 77: Interview with Fabrizio Benedetti, MD, author of Placebo Effects, and, The Patient's Brain. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 78: Discussion of Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines---and How It Will Change Our Lives, by Miguel Nicolelis. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 79: Interview with Miguel Nicolelis, MD, PhD, author of Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 80: Fifth Annual Year-end Review. [Buy Transcript]
Episode 81: Interview with Patricia Churchland, PhD, author of Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 82: Discussion of Who's in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain, by Michael Gazzaniga, PhD. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 83: Interview with William Uttal, PhD, author of Mind and Brain: A Critical Appraisal of Cognitive Neuroscience. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 84: Update on Consciousness Research with Christof Koch, PhD, author of Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 85: Interview with Sebastian Seung, PhD, author of Conntectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 86: Interview with Rachel Herz, PhD, author of That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 87: Interview with Pamela Greenwood, PhD, co-author of Nurturing the Older Brain and Mind. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 88: Interview with Bruce Hood, PhD, author of The Self Illusion: How The Social Brain Creates Identity. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 89: Interview with Evan Thompson, PhD, author of Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 90: Discussion of Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 91: Interview with Jaak Panksepp, PhD, author of The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotion. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Episode 92: Sixth Annual Review: Neuroscience Highlights for 2012. [Buy Transcript]
Episode 93: Interview with Fernando Cervero, MD, PhD, author of Understanding Pain. [Buy Transcript for $2]
Episode 94: Interview with Benjamin Bergen, PhD, author of Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning. [Buy Transcript for $2]
Episode 95: Understanding Pain; Part 2 of the Discussion of Pain begun in Episode 93. [Buy Transcript for $2]
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. [Buy Transcript for $2]
Episode 97: Interview with Daniel H. Lende, PhD and Greg Downey, PhD, authors of The Encultured Brain: An Introduction to Neuroanthropology. [Buy Transcript for $2]
Episode 98: Discussion of The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum, by Temple Grandin, PhD. [Buy Transcript for $2]
Episode 99: Interview with Temple Grandin, PhD, author of The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum. [Buy Transcript for $2]
Episode 100: Interview with Alvaro Fernandez, MA, co-author of The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness: How to Optimize Brain Health and Performance at Any Age. [Buy Transcript for $2]
Episode 101: Synape evolution with Seth Grant, PhD. [Buy Transcript for $2]
Episode 102: Interview with Allen Frances, MD, author of Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life. [Buy Transcript for $2]
Episode 103: Interview with Olaf Sporns, PhD, author of Discovering the Human Connectome. [Buy Transcript for $2]
Episode 104: Seventh Annual Review.
Episode 105: Interview with Michael Merzenich, PhD, author of Soft-Wired: How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Can Change Your Life. [Buy Transcript for $2]
Episode 106: Interview with Luiz Pessoa, PhD, author of The Cognitive-Emotional Brain: From Interactions to Integration. [Buy Transcript for $2]
Episode 107: Interview with Penny Lewis, PhD, author of The Secret World of Sleep: The Surprising Science of the Mind at Rest. [Buy transcript for $2]
Episode 108: Interview with Michael Graziano, PhD, author of Consciousness and the Social Brain. [Buy Transcript for $2]
Episode 109: Avoiding Neuromania, Discussion of neurocentrism based on several books, including Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience. [Buy transcript for $2]
Episode 110: Interview with Frank Amthor, PhD, author of Neurobiology for Dummies and Neuroscience for Dummies (Buy transcript for $2)
Episode 111: Interview with John Ratey, MD, author of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain. (Buy transcript for $2)
Episode 112: Interview with Gregory Hickok, PhD, author of The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition. (Buy transcript for $2)
Episode 113: Discussion of the University of Alabama 'Neuroscience and Healing' Symposium, hosted by The Dalai Lama. (Buy transcript for $2)
Episode 114: Eighth Annual Review Episode. (Download FREE Transcript)
Episode 115: Interview with Dr. Evan Thompson, author of Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy. (Buy Transcript for $2)
Episode 116: Interview with Dr. Norman Doidge, author of The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Recoveries and Discoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroscience. (Buy Transcript for $2)
Episode 117: Interview with Dr. Michael Gazzaniga, author of Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience. (Buy Transcript for $2)
Episode 118: Brain Anatomy Revealed, a discussion of Beyond the Zonules of Zinn, by David Bainbridge. (Buy Transcript for $2)
Episode 119: Interview with Dr. Edward Taub, inventor of contraint-induced movement therapy. (Buy Transcript for $2)
Episode 120: Second half of the interview with Dr. Edward Taub. (Buy Transcript for $2)
Episode 121: Interview with Dr. Bud Craig, author of How Do You Feel? An Interoceptive Moment with your Neurobiological Self. (Buy transcript for $2)
Episode 122: Interview with Dr. Fabrizio Benedetti, author of Placebo Effects: Understanding the Mechanisms in Health and Disease. (Buy transcript for $2)
Episode 123: Interview with Dr. Anthony Chemero, co-author of Phenomenology: An Introduction. (Free transcript)
Episode 124: Interview with Dr. Michael Anderson, author of After Phrenology: Neural Reuse and the Interactive Brain. (Buy transcript for $2)
Episode 125: Ninth Annual Review Episode. (Download FREE transcript)
Episode 126: Interview with Dr. Andy Clark, author of Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind. (Buy transcript for $1)
Episode 127: Dr. Fabrizio Benedetti (BSP 122) updates us on the latest research on Placebo Effects. (Buy Transcript for $2)
Episode 130: Ten Year Anniversary, Part One: The Early Years. (Buy transcript for $2)
Episode 131: Ten Year Anniversary, Part Two: What Is Mind? (Buy transcript for $2)
Episode 132: Honoring William Uttal's Contributions to Cognitive Neuroscience. (Buy transcript for $2)
Episode 133: Interview with Dr. Suzana Herculano-Houzel, author of The Human Advantage: How Our Brains Became Remarkable (Buy transcript for $2)
Episode 134: Remembering Jaak Panksepp, pioneer of affective neuroscience. (Buy transcript for $2)
Episode 135: Interview with Dr. Lisa Barrett, author of How Emotions Are Made. (Buy transcript for $2)
Episode 136: Discussion of Language at the Speed of Sight: How We Read, Why So Many Can't, And What Can Be Done About It, by Dr. Mark Seidenberg. (Buy transcript for $2)
Episode 137: Seth Grant's Latest Research. (Buy transcript for $2)
Episode 138: Interview with Dr. John Medina, author of Brain Rules for Aging Well: 10 Principles for Staying Vital, Happy, and Sharp. (Buy transcript for $2)
Episode 139: Interview with Jeff Hawkins, author of On Intelligence. (Buy Transcript for $2)
Episode 140: Annual Review of 2017. (Buy transcript for $2)
Episode 141: Interview with Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, author of The Forgetting Machine: Memory, Perception, and the "Jennifer Aniston Neuron." (Buy transcript for $2)
Episode 142: Interview with Dr. Michael Graziano, author of The Spaces Between Us: A Story of Neuroscience, Evolution, and Human Nature. (Buy transcript for $2)
Episode 143: Interview with Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg, author of Creativity: The Human Brain in the Age of Innovation. (Buy transcript for $2)
Episode 144: Interview with Dr. Angela Friederici, author of Language in Our Brain: The Origins of a Uniquely Human Capacity. (Buy transcript for $2)
Episode 145: Interview with Dr. Maryanne Wolf, author of Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century.
Episode 146: Interview with Dr. Alan Jasanoff, author of The Biological Mind: How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are. (Buy transcript for $2)
Episode 147: Eve Marder’s Life in Neuroscience: Discussion of Charlotte Nassim’s new book, Lessons From the Lobster: Eve Marder’s Work in Neuroscience. (Buy transcript for $2)
Episode 148: Encore interview with Dr. Eve Marder. (Buy transcript for $2)
Episode 149: Interview with Dr. Dean Burnett, author of Happy Brain: Where Happiness Comes From, and Why. (Buy transcript for $2)
Episode 150: Interview with Dr. Seth Grant, author of the new paper, “Architecture of the Mouse Brain Synaptome".” (Buy transcript for $2)
Episode 151: Discussion of the neuroscience of emotion based on the book, The Neuroscience of Emotion: A New Synthesis. (Buy transcript for $2)
Episode 152: Twelfth Annual Review of topics covered in 2018. (Buy Transcript for $2)
Episode 153: Interview with Dr. John Dowling, author of Understanding the Brain: From Cells to Behavior to Cognition. (Buy Transcript for $3)
Episode 154: Interview with Dr. Alan Castel, author of Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging. (Buy Transcript for $3)
Episode 155: Interview with Dr. Paul Middlebrooks, creator and host of the Brain Inspired podcast. (Buy transcript for $3)
Episode 156: Interview with Dr. Russell Poldrack, author of The New Mind Readers: What Neuroimaging Can and Cannot Reveal about Our Thoughts. (Buy transcript for $3)
Episode 157: Interview with Donald G Mackay, author of Remembering: What 50 Years of Research with Famous Amnesia Patient H.M. Can Teach Us about Memory and How It Works. (Buy Transcript for $3)
Episode 158: Interview with Patricia Churchland, author of Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition. (Buy transcript for $3)
Episode 159: Interview with Kevin J Mitchell, author of Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are. (Buy transcript for $3)
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Additional Transcripts
These are for episodes of Books and Ideas that have appeared in the Brain Science Podcast feed. These episodes are still available for free at http:booksandideas.com as are most of the transcripts.
Challenging Nature with Lee M. Silver (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. [Buy Transcript for $1]
Daniel George: Co-author of The Myth of Alzheimers's (Transcript PDF)
Carol Tavris: co-author of Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) [Buy Transcript for $1]
Paul Offit, MD on the Dangers of the Anti-Vaccine Movement (Transcript PDF)
Terrence Deacon, PhD, Author of Incomplete Nature [Buy Transcript for $1]
Jaak Panksepp, PhD, on Why Animal Emotions Matter (Transcript PDF)
