12th Annual Review Episode (BSP 152)
/BS 152 is our 12th annual review episode. In 2018 nine new books were featured and the subjects covered included memory, peri-personal cells, creativity, language, reading, the cerebral mystique, synapses, happiness, emotion and work of Eve Marder. We had 4 new guests and 4 returning guests along with an encore interview with Dr. Eve Marder.
This episode includes highlights from all 11 episodes that were released between January and November 2018.
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Links and References
BS 141 Memory and Perception with Dr. Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, author of The Forgetting Machine: Memory, Perception, and the "Jennifer Aniston Neuron.”
BS 142 Peripersonal neurons with Dr. Michael Graziano, author ofThe Spaces Between Us: A Story of Neuroscience, Evolution, and Human Nature.
BS 143 Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg discussed his new book Creativity: The Human Brain in the Age of Innovation.
BS 144 Dr. Angela Friederici, author of Language in Our Brain: The Origins of a Uniquely Human Capacity.
BS 145 A return to the reading brain with Dr. Maryanne Wolf, author of Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century.
BS 146 Dr. Alan Jasanoff, author of The Biological Mind: How Brain, Body and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are.
BS 147A discussion of Charlotte Nassim’s biographyLessons fro the Lobster: Eve Marder’s Work in Neuroscience.
BS 148 Encore of 2009 interview with pioneering neuroscientist Dr. Eve Marder
BS 149 Dr. Dean Burnett, author of Happy Brain: Where Happiness Comes From, and Why.
BS 150 My favorite guest, Dr. Seth Grant, discussed The Mouse Synaptome and why it matters.
BS 151 Discussion of The Neuroscience of Emotion: A New Synthesis by Ralph Adolphs and David J. Anderson.
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