BS 159 Kevin Mitchell, author of "Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are"
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
Ginger Campbell, MD
4.8 • 896 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2019
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
BS 159 is an interview with Dr. Kevin Mitchell, author of Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are. We discuss the fact that our brain-based behavior is actually more innate than is commonly realized. Even identical twins are innately different despite having nearly identical genomes. This is because of events that occur during brain development. Listen now to learn more about what science is revealing about this fascinating topic. (PS: we also talk about the role of brain plasticity.)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to brain science, |
| 0:05.0 | brain science, the podcast that explores how recent discoveries in |
| 0:08.4 | neuroscience are unraveling the mystery of how our brain makes us human. I'm your host Dr. |
| 0:14.4 | Ginger Campbell and this is episode 159. For complete show notes and |
| 0:19.9 | episode transcripts please visit my website at brain science |
| 0:23.4 | podcast.com. |
| 0:25.2 | You can send me feedback at brain science podcast at gmail.com, |
| 0:31.1 | voicemail at Speak Pipe.com |
| 0:33.0 | and you can also leave comments on our Facebook fan page. |
| 0:39.0 | Today my guest is Dr Kevin Mitchell from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. |
| 0:45.1 | Dr Mitchell has written a fascinating book called Inate How the Wiring of our Brains |
| 0:51.7 | shapes who we are. |
| 0:54.1 | The key idea of this book is that much of our behavior is innate, |
| 0:58.2 | but this is only partly due to genetics. |
| 1:02.0 | Events that happen during brain development are equally important. On page 7, he writes, |
| 1:08.9 | we are different from each other in a large part because of the way our brains get wired before we are |
| 1:15.0 | born. We will explore this idea in detail over the next hour and we will also |
| 1:20.8 | explore the surprising role of brain plasticity. |
| 1:24.7 | I'll be back after the interview to review the key ideas and to share a few brief announcements. |
| 1:30.6 | Have you ever considered hiring a personal coach? |
| 1:34.0 | I'm currently training to become a certified professional coach |
| 1:38.0 | and I will begin accepting a limited number of clients in November of 2019. The key tool of coaching is asking |
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