Welcome to brain science, the

the podcast for everyone who has a brain.

This is episode 138 and I'm your host Dr. Ginger Campbell.

My guest today is Dr. John Medina who first appeared on the brain science

podcast back in episode 37 which originally aired in 2008. Today we are talking about his latest book,

Brain Rules for Aging Well,

10 principles for staying vital, happy, and sharp.

Even though this episode is less technical than some recent podcasts, I will come back after the interview to review key ideas and to make a few announcements.

As always, you can get complete show notes and episode transcripts at brain science

podcast.com and you can send me feedback at brain science podcast at gmail dot com

welcome back to brain science do you realize that it's been nine years

since we last talk or maybe I think it was when brain rules first

came on was yeah yeah I'm looking forward to talking about your new book brain

rules for aging well but before we get into that, do you mind

tell me a little bit about what you've been up to since we last talked?

Yeah, well, some of it's the same old, same old. I'm still at the University of Washington in the

Department of Bioengineering. My research interests are the same as they've always been.

The genetics of psychiatric disorders. I've spent a long time thinking about how the brain develops in the womb and then what happens

when things screw up and years later a psychopathology comes out.

I've written a couple of books on aging.

In fact, my first book with Cambridge University Press

was called The Clock of Ages.

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