Welcome to brain science, the show for everyone who has a brain. I'm your host Dr.

Ginger Campbell and this is episode 140. This is our 11th annual review episode. If you are a new

listener this episode will give you a sense of what topics we covered in

2017 if you are a long of what topics we covered in 2017.

If you are a long-term listener,

you know that I like to use the last episode of each year

to look back on the year's highlights

and to talk about my hopes for the future.

This year I'm going to include some highlights from last month's annual meeting of the Society

of Neuroscience, which was held in Washington, D.C.

As always, you will find complete show notes and episode transcripts at brain science

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

I want to start out by thanking everyone who helps keep brain science going, not just

financially, but also by sending me feedback and sharing

the show with others.

Creating this show is a lot of work and your feedback has kept me going through the recent changes in my personal life.

So let's get started.

We started 2017 with episode 131, which was the second half of my look back at the first 10 years of brain science.

One inevitable consequence of entering our 11th year is that some of the scientists I've interviewed have died.

In 2017 we lost Dr. William Utah and Dr. Jacques Pangip. In their memory I replayed their past interviews. In episode

132 I featured Dr. William Utah's interview from 2012 in which we discussed his book, Mind and Brain, A Critical Appraisal of

neuroscience. This book is a very detailed look at the increasing use of functional magnetic imaging in the field of

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