Episode Transcripts
Transcripts are now available for all episodes of the Brain Science Podcast. Just click on the links below to download a PDF of your favorite episode. Episode Transcripts are also available via our new iPhone application.
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)
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