BSP 129 Dr. Brenda Milner: Neuropsychology and the Study of Memory

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

Ginger Campbell, MD

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

4.8 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In episode 129, Dr. Brenda Milner comes on the show to talk about her life's work and her most famous experiments. Dr. Milner was a pioneer in the field of neuropsychology and in the study of memory and other cognitive functions in humankind. She studied the effects of damage to the medial temporal lobe on memory and systematically described the deficits in the most famous patient in cognitive neuroscience, Henry Molaison, formerly known as patient H.M.She has made major contributions to the understanding of the role of the frontal lobes in memory processing, in the area of organizing information.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Brain Science with Dr. Ginger Campbell.
0:10.0	This is episode 129, and today we have a very special interview with pioneering
0:16.5	neuroscientists Dr Brenda Milner. Before I get started I want to thank
0:20.4	everyone who has sent me emails telling me that you're glad that
0:24.4	brain sciences back from its six-month hiatus. Your feedback strengthens my
0:29.4	resolve to keep the show going. Hopefully, many of you know who Dr. Brenda Milner is, but just in
0:36.3	case you don't, I'll give you a brief overview of her career which spans over 50 years
0:42.4	at the McGill Neurological Institute in Montreal, Canada.
0:47.0	Dr Milner is a psychologist by training, and she's best known for the work she did with the famous patient H.M.
0:54.0	and also with Roger Sperry's famous
0:56.9	Split Brain patients.
0:59.3	In these days of brain scans, it's easy to forget the importance of well-designed experiments.
1:06.7	And in this interview, Dr Milner gives us a firsthand look about what this work was really
1:11.8	like.
1:13.0	This conversation first aired in 2008
1:17.1	when Dr Milner was 90 years old,
1:20.2	and I'm happy to report that she is still in good health.
1:24.0	While we're talking, I mentioned another interview that she did on a podcast called Futures
1:29.7	in Biotech.
1:31.5	At the time, I was trying to compliment rather than duplicate Mark Peltier's interview
1:38.4	and I encouraged listeners to check out futures in in Biotech. Unfortunately, that show
1:45.0	Pod faded years ago.
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