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Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

BS 207 Luiz Pessoa "The Cognitive-Emotional Brain"

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

Ginger Campbell, MD

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

4.8896 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This month's episode is an encore presentation of an interview with neuroscientist Luiz Pessoa discussing his fascinating book "The Cognitive-Emotional Brain: From Interactions to Integration." We explored the surprising role of the amygdala in decision making and learned that cognition and emotion are deeply intertwined at every level.

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0:00.0

Welcome to brain science, the podcast that explores how recent discoveries in

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neuroscience are helping unravel the mystery of how our brain makes us human.

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I'm your host, Dr. Ginger Campbell,

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and this is episode 207.

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You can find complete show notes and episode transcripts at brain science

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podcast dot com and you can send me feedback at brain science

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podcast at gmail dot com I also want to mention that the free brain science mobile app is now called

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Brain Science Podcast. This app is available for all mobile devices and it is a great way to access both free and

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premium content.

0:48.2

This month's episode is an encore of an interview with Dr. Louis Passoa about his book, The Cognitive Emotional

0:56.6

Brain, from interaction to integration. When we first talked back in 2014, some of the information we discussed was quite surprising.

1:08.0

We learned that subcortical brain structures like the amygdala and the thalmus do much more than scientists once assumed.

1:17.4

They are both involved in learning and decision-making. Another key discovery was that emotion and cognition are

1:25.9

deeply entwined at all levels. This is many consequences for how we imagine and

1:32.3

understand what our brain does. I'm replaying this

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conversation now to prepare you for an upcoming episode where Dr. Passoa and I will discuss his latest book,

1:45.0

The Entangled Brain, How Perception, Cognition, and Emotion are Woven Together.

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