Hello everyone and welcome to talk nerdy. Today is Monday August 31st

2020 and I'm the host of the show Kara Santa Maria. So who are we talking to

today? Ooh you guys are really gonna love this one.

So I have the opportunity to sit down

with a renowned neuroscientist

and really he is an international authority on brain development,

neuron glia interactions, and the cellular mechanisms of memory.

But the book that he recently wrote is all about brainwave. So his name is Dr. R Douglas Fields and his

newest book is called Electric Brain, how the new science of brain waves reads

minds tells us how we learn and helps us change for the better.

Without any further ado, here he is Dr. R. Douglas Fields.

Well Doug, thank you so much for joining me today.

Thank you. It's great to bring on your program.

I am really excited to talk about your newest book, Electric Brain,

how the new science of brain waves reads minds, tells us how we learn and helps

us change for the better.

So when we talk about the brain, it's pretty complicated organ.

And obviously there are a lot of different levels

and a lot of different kind of types of investigations and interrogations.

You've got some systems level stuff, some network level stuff,

some cellular, even neurochemical,

kind of what's happening within the cells we're going to be

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