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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