Hi, I'm Curtis Kelly, a professor of English in Japan.

And the Brain Science podcast has simply changed my life.

And I'd like to say again to Ginger, thank you, thank you, thank you,

for bringing this information to our world and especially my world. Welcome to Brain Science with Dr. Ginger Campbell. This is episode 130.

As always you can find detailed show notes and episode transcripts at brainscience podcast.com

and you can send me feedback at brainscience podcast at gmail.com.

Episode one of brain science was released on December 5th 2006, which means that for the last 10 years I have been exploring how recent discoveries in neuroscience are helping unravel the mystery of how our

brain makes us human.

During that time I have received emails from listeners from around the world and today I plan

to share a bit of that feedback with you. Curtis, who you just heard, was the only one who sent

me audio and I will play you more of his words later.

So today is the special 10th anniversary episode and as many of you know my life has become more complicated over the last year and a half,

especially since my husband Dennis died unexpectedly last summer.

I'm now juggling two palliative medicine jobs, which is really restricting the time I have

to devote to brain science. That's one reason why I've decided to break the 10th anniversary

episode into two parts.

Today I'm going to focus on the first five years of the show,

which was essentially from 2007 through 2011.

Now I am not going to try to tell you every guest that's been on the show or every topic that I've covered.

That would probably be pretty boring. If you go to the website there on the home

page of Brainscience Podcast.com, there's a button. It says past episodes and on that page you will find a list of every episode and I have tried to

tag episodes so that you can find what you're looking for. But what I do want to do

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