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Interviews with Neuroscientists about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/neuroscience

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Christian Hansel, "Memory Makes the Brain: The Biological Machinery That Uses Experiences To Shape Individual Brains" (World Scientific, 2021)
Apr 30, 2024
Charan Ranganath, "Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters" (Doubleday, 2024)
Apr 27, 2024
Matt Qvortrup, "The Political Brain: The Emergence of Neuropolitics" (CEU Press, 2024)
Apr 24, 2024
Lawson R. Wulsin, "Toxic Stress: How Stress Is Making Us Ill and What We Can Do About It" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Apr 15, 2024
Max Bennett, "A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, Ai, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains" (Mariner Books, 2023)
Apr 01, 2024
Kenneth Miller, "Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep" (Hachette Books, 2023)
Mar 08, 2024
Thomas Metzinger, "The Elephant and the Blind: The Experience of Pure Consciousness: Philosophy, Science, and 500+ Experiential Reports" (MIT Press, 2024)
Mar 06, 2024
Sten Grillner, "The Brain in Motion: From Microcircuits to Global Brain Function" (MIT Press, 2023)
Feb 23, 2024
Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There
Feb 22, 2024
Joshua Paul Dale, "Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World" (Profile Books, 2023)
Feb 10, 2024
Harry van der Hulst, "A Mind for Language: An Introduction to the Innateness Debate" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jan 20, 2024
Lawrence Sherman and Dennis Plies, "Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Dec 16, 2023
Shelly Kagan, "How to Count Animals, More Or Less" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Dec 06, 2023
Coleen T. Murphy, "How We Age: The Science of Longevity" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Dec 01, 2023
The Future of Innovation: A Discussion with Min W. Jung
Nov 26, 2023
Gary Tomlinson, "The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning" (Zone Books, 2023)
Nov 14, 2023
Neil Cohn, "Who Understands Comics?: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Oct 30, 2023
The Future of Paying Attention: A Discussion with Carolyn Dicey Jennings
Oct 24, 2023
Joshua May, "Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Oct 07, 2023
Kevin J. Mitchell, "Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Oct 01, 2023
Federico Alvarez Igarzábal, "Time and Space in Video Games: A Cognitive-Formalist Approach" (Transcript, 2020)
Sep 23, 2023
Catherine Coveney et al., "Technosleep: Frontiers, Fictions, Futures" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Sep 14, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
Sep 12, 2023
The Future of Talking: A Discussion with Shane O'Mara
Aug 26, 2023
Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist
Aug 15, 2023
Infectious Behavior: Brain-Immune Connections in Autism, Schizophrenia, and Depression
Aug 14, 2023
Andreas Killen, "Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War" (Harper, 2023)
Aug 06, 2023
Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain
Aug 03, 2023
The Future of Food: A Discussion with Kimberly Wilson
Jul 14, 2023
Quinn Eastman, "The Woman Who Couldn't Wake Up: Hypersomnia and the Science of Sleepiness" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Jul 07, 2023
Stephen Hauser, "The Face Laughs While the Brain Cries: The Education of a Doctor" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
Jul 01, 2023
The Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable
Jun 20, 2023
Philip Kirby and Margaret J. Snowling, "Dyslexia: A History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
Jun 03, 2023
The Miraculous Mind (with Paul Bloom)
May 11, 2023
Alan Lightman, "The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science" (Pantheon, 2023)
Apr 26, 2023
Free Will as an Open Scientific Problem
Apr 25, 2023
Tom Hutton, "Hitler's Maladies and Their Impact on World War II" (Texas Tech UP, 2023)
Apr 23, 2023
Moheb Costandi, "Body Am I: The New Science of Self-Consciousness" (MIT Press, 2022)
Apr 03, 2023
Olaf Sporns on Network Neuroscience
Apr 02, 2023
Adrian Bejan, "Time and Beauty: Why Time Flies and Beauty Never Dies" (World Scientific, 2022)
Feb 26, 2023
Making Meaning Episode 20: Love, Work, and Play
Feb 23, 2023
Justin Gregg, "If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity" (Little, Brown, 2022)
Jan 26, 2023
Christopher M. Palmer, "Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health" (Benbella Books, 2022)
Dec 23, 2022
Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett, "Curious Minds: The Power of Connection" (MIT Press, 2022)
Dec 09, 2022
David Lindsay, "Scientific Writing = Thinking in Words" (CSIRO Publishing, 2020)
Dec 07, 2022
Mary-Frances O'Connor, "The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss" (HarperOne, 2022)
Dec 05, 2022
Ann-Christine Duhaime, "Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Nov 22, 2022
Ayan S. Mandal, "A Stethoscope for the Brain: Preventive Approaches to Protect the Mind" (New Degree Press, 2022)
Nov 04, 2022
Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett, "Curious Minds: The Power of Connection" (MIT Press, 2022)
Nov 03, 2022
Lisa Feldman Barrett, "Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain" (Mariner Books, 2020)
Oct 19, 2022
David Badre, "On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Sep 29, 2022
Nick Chater, "The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain" (Yale UP, 2019)
Sep 22, 2022
Rick Strassman, "The Psychedelic Handbook: A Practical Guide to Psilocybin, LSD, Ketamine, MDMA, and DMT/Ayahuasca" (Ulysses Press, 2022)
Sep 16, 2022
Georg Striedter, "Model Systems in Biology: History, Philosophy, and Practical Concerns" (MIT Press, 2022)
Sep 07, 2022
John Measey, "How to Publish in Biological Sciences: A Guide for the Uninitiated" (CRC Press, 2022)
Sep 05, 2022
Mark Solms, "The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness" (Norton, 2021)
Aug 12, 2022
Daniel Bergner, "The Mind and the Moon: My Brother's Story, the Science of Our Brains, and the Search for Our Psyches" (Ecco, 2022)
Aug 04, 2022
Howard Gardner, "A Synthesizing Mind: A Memoir from the Creator of Multiple Intelligences Theory" (MIT Press, 2022)
Jun 23, 2022
Robert-Jan Smits and Rachael Pells, "Plan S for Shock: Science. Shock. Solution. Speed." (Ubiquity Press, 2022)
Jun 21, 2022
A. J. Lees, "Brainspotting: Adventures in Neurology" (Notting Hill Editions, 2022)
Jun 14, 2022
Timothy J. Jorgensen, "Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Jun 10, 2022
The Future of the Brain: A Conversation with Daniel Graham
May 31, 2022
Timmen Cermak, "Marijuana on My Mind: The Science and Mystique of Cannabis" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
May 24, 2022
John Lardas Modern, "Neuromatic: Or, a Particular History of Religion and the Brain" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
May 23, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 11: The Covid Pandemic and Learning about Learning
May 18, 2022
David M. Peña-Guzmán, "When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness" (Princeton UP, 2022)
May 17, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 8: Covid and the Embrace of the Biological World
Apr 27, 2022
Dashun Wang and Albert-László Barabási, "The Science of Science" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Apr 13, 2022
Owen Flanagan, "How to Do Things with Emotions: The Morality of Anger and Shame across Cultures" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Apr 13, 2022
Marcus Kaiser, "Changing Connectomes: Evolution, Development, and Dynamics in Network Neuroscience" (MIT Press, 2020)
Apr 08, 2022
The Future of Delusions: A Discussion with Lisa Bortolotti
Apr 05, 2022
Jill Bolte Taylor, "Whole Brain Living: The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life" (Hay House, 2021)
Apr 01, 2022
Stephen B. Heard, "The Scientist’s Guide to Writing: How to Write More Easily and Effectively Throughout Your Scientific Career, 2nd ed." (Princeton UP, 2022)
Mar 21, 2022
Intellectual Humility in Science: A Discussion with Glenn Sauer
Mar 10, 2022
The Future of Consciousness: A Discussion with Eva Jablonka
Mar 08, 2022
Jay J. Van Bavel and Dominic J. Packer, "The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities" (Little, Brown Spark, 2021)
Mar 03, 2022
David Robson, "The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World" (Henry Holt, 2022)
Mar 02, 2022
The Future of Sleep: A Discussion with Derk-Jan Dijk
Mar 01, 2022
Gaye T. Lansdell et al., "Neurodisability and the Criminal Justice System: Comparative and Therapeutic Responses" (Edward Elgar, 2021)
Feb 23, 2022
Christophe Bernard, Director of Research at INSERM and Editor-in-Chief of eNeuro
Feb 18, 2022
Sara Manning Peskin, "A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain" (Norton, 2022)
Feb 18, 2022
Retraction Watch: A Discussion with Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky
Feb 11, 2022
Leonard Mlodinow, "Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking" (Pantheon, 2022)
Feb 03, 2022
Carla Yanni, "The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States" (U Minnesota Press, 2007)
Jan 28, 2022
Christopher Kemp, "Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation" (Norton, 2022)
Jan 27, 2022
Harry Yi-Jui Wu, "Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization" (MIT Press, 2021)
Jan 14, 2022
Charles Foster, "Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness" (Metropolitan Books, 2021)
Jan 14, 2022
Robert W. Baloh and Robert E. Bartholomew, "Havana Syndrome: Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria" (Copernicus, 2020)
Jan 04, 2022
Karl Herrup, "How Not to Study a Disease: The Story of Alzheimer's" (MIT Press, 2021)
Jan 03, 2022
Exploring Science Literacy and Public Engagement with Science
Dec 31, 2021
David Sulzer, "Music, Math, and Mind: The Physics and Neuroscience of Music" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Dec 30, 2021
Alfred Mele, “Free Will: An Investigation” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Dec 20, 2021
Kalanit Grill-Spector, “Vision and Perception” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Dec 10, 2021
Ginny Smith, "Overloaded: How Every Aspect of Your Life is Influenced by Your Brain Chemicals" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Dec 10, 2021
Matthew Walker, “Sleep Insights” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Nov 29, 2021
Nina Kraus, "Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World" (MIT Press, 2021)
Nov 26, 2021
Oliver Rollins, "Conviction: The Making and Unmaking of the Violent Brain" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Nov 26, 2021
Brandy Schillace, "Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
Nov 19, 2021
Alcino Silva, “Learning and Memory” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Nov 04, 2021
Jonathan Schooler, “Mind-Wandering and Meta-Awareness” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Nov 01, 2021
Elyn Saks, “Mental Health: Policies, Laws and Attitudes” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Oct 28, 2021
Anna Spain Bradley, "Human Choice in International Law" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Oct 25, 2021
Jacki Edry, "Moving Forward: Reflections on Autism, Neurodiversity, Brain Surgery, and Faith" (2021)
Oct 22, 2021
Hilary Glasman-Deal and Andrew Northern on STEMM Communications
Oct 20, 2021
Martin Monti, “The Limits of Consciousness” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Oct 08, 2021
Paul Thagard, "Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart?" (MIT Press, 2021)
Oct 06, 2021
Samuel Gershman, "What Makes Us Smart: The Computational Logic of Human Cognition" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Sep 28, 2021
Giorgio Vallortigara, "Born Knowing: Imprinting and the Origins of Knowledge" (MIT Press, 2021)
Sep 28, 2021
Elizabeth Loftus, “The Malleability of Memory” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Sep 28, 2021
Allan V. Horwitz, "DSM: A History of Psychiatry's Bible" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
Sep 24, 2021
Stephen Kosslyn, “Applied Psychology: Thinking Critically” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Sep 23, 2021
Joshua Schimel, "Writing Science: How to Write Papers That Get Cited and Proposals That Get Funded" (Oxford UP, 2011)
Sep 22, 2021
Daniel Gibbs, "A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist's Personal Battle against Alzheimer's Disease" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Sep 22, 2021
Laura Aguirre, "The Memory Thief: And the Secrets Behind How We Remember--A Medical Mystery" (Pegasus, 2021)
Sep 15, 2021
Greg Hickock, “Beyond Mirror Neurons” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Sep 13, 2021
Silvia Casini, "Giving Bodies Back to Data: Image Makers, Bricolage, and Reinvention in Magnetic Resonance Technology" (MIT Press, 2021)
Sep 09, 2021
Stephen Hinshaw, “Understanding ADHD” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Sep 09, 2021
Anil Seth, "Being You: A New Science of Consciousness" (Dutton, 2020)
Sep 02, 2021
Jennifer Groh, “Knowing One’s Place: Space and the Brain” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Sep 02, 2021
Jay Gargus, “Autism: A Genetic Perspective” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Aug 24, 2021
Uta Frith, “Exploring Autism” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Aug 23, 2021
Chris Frith, “In Search of a Mechanism: From the Brain to the Mind” (Open Agenda, 2020)
Aug 20, 2021
Barbara Fredrickson, “The Science of Emotions” (Open Agenda, 2020)
Aug 19, 2021
Mark L. Johnson and Don M. Tucker, "Out of the Cave: A Natural Philosophy of Mind and Knowing" (MIT Press, 2021)
Aug 17, 2021
Victor Ferreira, “Speaking and Thinking” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Aug 16, 2021
Lisa Feldman Barrett, “Constructing Our World: The Brain’s-Eye View” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Aug 13, 2021
Nita Farahany, “Neurolaw” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Aug 12, 2021
Yves Agid, "Subconsciousness: Automatic Behavior and the Brain" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Aug 06, 2021
Carol Dweck, “Mindsets: Growing Your Brain” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Aug 05, 2021
Robert Stickgold and Antonio Zadra, "When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
Aug 04, 2021
Erik Hoel, "The Revelations" (Overlook Press, 2021)
Aug 03, 2021
John Duncan, “Investigating Intelligence” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Aug 03, 2021
Diana Deutsch, “Believing Your Ears: Examining Auditory Illusions” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Aug 02, 2021
Iris Berent, "The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason about Human Nature" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Aug 02, 2021
Patricia Churchland, “Philosophy of Brain” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Jul 26, 2021
Ellen Bialystok, “The Psychology of Bilingualism” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Jul 21, 2021
Anna Stenning et al., "Neurodiversity Studies: A New Critical Paradigm" (Routledge, 2020)
Jul 21, 2021
Roy Baumeister, “Being Social” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Jul 14, 2021
Warren Mansell, "The Interdisciplinary Handbook of Perceptual Control Theory" (Academic Press, 2020)
Jul 08, 2021
Rebecca Schwarzlose, "Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain and How They Guide You" (HMH, 2021)
Jun 14, 2021
Howard Burton, "Conversations About Neuroscience" (Open Agenda, 2020)
Jun 14, 2021
Randolph M. Nesse, "Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry" (Dutton, 2019)
May 28, 2021
Michael D. Gordin, "On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience" (Oxford UP, 2021)
May 17, 2021
Jason Karlawish, "The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It" (St. Martin's Press, 2021)
May 11, 2021
Peter Godfrey-Smith, "Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind" (FSG, 2020)
May 03, 2021
Herbert Terrace, "Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Apr 21, 2021
Roy Richard Grinker, "Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness" (Norton, 2021)
Mar 30, 2021
Han Yu, "Mind Thief: The Story of Alzheimer's" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Mar 03, 2021
J. Jureidini and L. B. McHenry, "The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine: Exposing the Crisis of Credibility in Clinical Research" (Wakefield Press, 2020)
Mar 03, 2021
Erika Engelhaupt, "Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science" (National Geographic, 2020)
Feb 25, 2021
Tracie White and Ronald W. Davis, "The Puzzle Solver: A Scientist's Desperate Hunt to Cure the Illness That Stole His Son" (Hachette, 2021)
Feb 24, 2021
Jack Price, "The Future of Brain Repair: A Realist's Guide to Stem Cell Therapy" (MIT Press, 2020)
Feb 10, 2021
Daniel J. Levitin, "Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives" (Dutton Books, 2020)
Jan 27, 2021
Simon Baron-Cohen, "The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention" (Allen Lane, 2020)
Jan 26, 2021
R. Douglas Fields, "Electric Brain: How the New Science of Brainwaves Reads Minds, Tells Us How We Learn, and Helps Us Change for the Better" (BenBella, 2020)
Jan 19, 2021
Rob DeSalle, "A Natural History of Color: The Science Behind What We See and How We See it" (Pegasus Books, 2020)
Jan 13, 2021
Jonathan Sadowsky, "The Empire of Depression: A New History" (Polity, 2020)
Jan 05, 2021
Roger Kreuz and Richard Roberts, "Changing Minds: How Aging Affects Language and How Language Affects Aging" (MIT Press, 2019)
Jan 05, 2021
Russell T. Warne, "In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths about Human Intelligence" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Dec 24, 2020
John Campbell, "Causation in Psychology" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Dec 10, 2020
A. Espay and B. Stecher, "Brain Fables: The Hidden History of Neurodegenerative Diseases and a Blueprint to Conquer Them" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Dec 04, 2020
Nancy D. Campbell, "OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose" (MIT Press, 2020)
Dec 03, 2020
Gina Rippon, "Gender and our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds (Vintage, 2020)
Nov 16, 2020
Gina Rippon, "Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds" (Vintage, 2020)
Oct 27, 2020
Robert Plomin, "Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are" (MIT Press, 2019)
Oct 22, 2020
Dr. Christopher Harris on Teaching Neuroscience
Sep 24, 2020
Robert Kolker, "Hidden Valley Road: Inside The Mind of An American Family" (Doubleday, 2020)
Sep 21, 2020
Joseph E. Davis, "Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Sep 18, 2020
Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, "NeuroScience Fiction" (Benbella Books, 2020)
Sep 10, 2020
Ann-Sophie Barwich, "Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Sep 03, 2020
György Buzsáki, "The Brain from Inside Out" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Aug 27, 2020