Brain Science Live #6: Live from Boston

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

Ginger Campbell, MD

Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Neuroscience, Medicine, Brain, Science

4.8 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This Premium episode was recorded on Facebook Live on November 1, 2018.

It includes a look back at BS 146, which was an interview with Alan Jasanoff, author of The Biological Mind: How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are. Our focus was on avoiding the "cerebral mystique," which includes the tendency to over emphasize neuroscience as a means of understanding the world.

Ironically, I also included the presentation I gave at Sound Education the next day called Why Neuroscience Matters in which I argue that basic neuroscience literacy is essential in the 21st Century. As citizens we need an accurate understanding of how our brains really work, but we also need to appreciate that we are more than our brains, and solutions to our most difficult problems must include a recognition of the role of our environment and our interaction with the people around us.

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. This is Ginger Campbell, Brain Science Live number six here. So the plan is going to be that I'm going to go through the material I've got planned for today. And at the end, I will address any questions or comments when I finish my little presentation.
0:23.3	Normally, we would be discussing episode 146 this month.
0:29.1	But since I'm at Harvard and I'm actually doing a public talk in a couple of days,
0:35.6	I've decided that what I'm going to do is I'm going to give you
0:39.5	a preview of my talk. It has minimal slides, so you won't be missing anything by not having
0:49.3	the slides. So just to get started, and this is the talk called Why Neuroscience Matters that I'm going to be giving on November 3rd at Sound Education at Harvard.
1:02.6	I'm Dr. Ginger Campbell, and my show is Brain Science, which I launched back in 2006 as the Brain Science podcast.
1:13.1	Brain science is driven by one simple goal to explore how neuroscience is unraveling the mystery of how the brain makes us human. My show's
1:21.3	tagline is the show for everyone who has a brain because it makes neuroscience accessible
1:26.4	to listeners from a wide variety of backgrounds.
1:30.5	I'm calling my talk why neuroscience matters because over the years I've developed the conviction
1:38.2	that basic neuroscience literacy should be a component of basic science literacy in the 21st century. In fact, I would argue
1:47.3	that neuroscience could be the ideal gateway to teaching non-scientists how science really works.
1:55.3	So what I'm going to do in this talk is to share a few examples of the practical usefulness of neuroscience, as well as examples of
2:04.1	how neuroscience can give non-scientists a better appreciation of how science is really done.
2:11.7	So first, let's consider memory.
2:14.7	This is a major focus of research that has led to Nobel prizes for discoveries about what
2:20.3	goes on at the molecular level. Yet the average person still thinks that memory works something
2:26.1	like a video recording that gets played back exactly the same every time. The reality is that
2:31.9	memory is very unreliable and there are important reasons why.
2:37.5	It turns out that every time a memory is recalled, it's actually dynamically recreated,
2:45.6	which means that it includes things that have happened or been learned since the original event.
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