Braincast - on the frequency of Mind and Brain
The podcast about the functions, opportunities and consequences of the brain. Each episode concentrates on a special topic, served with mind science news and some music.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 17 minutes
- Episodes
- 25
- Years Active
- 2008 - 2009
Braincast 025 - Materialism, Buddhism and Position Definitio
Episode 25 is rather personal with a look behind my mental curtain: motivation and preferences, why Buddhism pops up on a regular basis and about my biggest problem on the topic. A definition of posi…
00:19:35 |
Sat 31 Jan 2009
Braincast 023 - Hard-headed
Planing, acting and, most of all, inhibiting – those are the main tasks of the prefrontal cortex. Additionally it has peer-to-peer connections to emotion- and social related areas. So this episode is…
00:21:00 |
Sat 17 Jan 2009
Braincast 023 - Driven by Emotion
Emotions are not just blessing or curse, they are much more. For example one way for the brain to talk to itself – via the body. They are the source of all our decisions. And first and foremost they …
00:19:00 |
Sat 13 Dec 2008
Braincast 022 - Creative perception
Part 2 about senses and perception is about how the brain deals with incoming data. It shows that some things simply are droped, while others are constructed. A braincast about roses, gorillas, blind…
00:18:06 |
Fri 28 Nov 2008
Braincast 021 - Basics: Senses
In dealing with reality the brain might be quite creative, but the senses are not: They send in the real world, one gig of data per second. This and other impressive numbers in Braincast 21. Plus: se…
00:16:23 |
Sat 15 Nov 2008
Braincast 020 - Autists and Savants
Autism is quite extreme: affected people shrink into theirselfs, live complicated rituals and have trouble understanding emotions. But out of autism can arise a real wonder: the savant syndrome, show…
00:16:45 |
Sat 01 Nov 2008
Braincast 019 - Stress
Stress is not just stress – it was designed to safe our life. But nowadays we even have stress with stress, and this is just sassy. In this episode you find some inner-headly backgrounds. And even so…
00:16:36 |
Sat 25 Oct 2008
Braincast 018 - The underestimated animal kingdom
Man is the pinnacle of creation and shall rule the world – that´s how we like it to be. But the difference between us and those brute animals is not that big, as this braincast demonstrates.
00:15:16 |
Sat 11 Oct 2008
Braincast 017 - The world out there
It the world out there would exist without us noticing, has been a heavy disput between philosophers for centuries. With "neurological constructivism", neuroscience found a position that offers great…
00:16:37 |
Sat 04 Oct 2008
Braincast 016 - Altruism
A peaceful topic at last: altruism, fairness, kindness. From scratch healthy brains are not capable of anything else – and they don´t want to, too. An episode of bright prospects.
00:18:34 |
Sat 27 Sep 2008
Braincast 015 - Basics - Imaging Techniques
How do we know what we know about the brain? And why did it become so much so fast? Braincast 15 wraps this dry topic to digest easily.
00:19:20 |
Fri 19 Sep 2008
Braincast 014 - Memory
No function of the brain gets criticised more often. But the reasons are mostly wrong, nobody really wants absolute memory, as Braincast 14 shows. That memory is a quite creative affair – that would …
00:18:57 |
Sat 13 Sep 2008
Braincast 013 - Free will
The ship of free will is sinking – at least some influential brain researchers say so. Braincast 13 examines backgrounds and backdoors of one of the most controversial topics between our ears.
00:17:01 |
Sat 30 Aug 2008
Braincast 012 - Best before
For decades they told us our brains were doomed, its cells vanish and we would become more dense every day. This is not invariably the case. That and more good news in a Braincast about the date of e…
00:16:08 |
Fri 22 Aug 2008
Braincast 011 - Basics: Structures
Limbic system, amygdala or neocortex – what does that actually mean? In Braincast 11 we are talking structure and layout of the brain. It might be a little dry. But it is imporatant.
00:16:12 |
Fri 08 Aug 2008
Braincast 010 - Development
The 10th episode – a small anniversary with a closer look on the
development of toddlers. It shows that TV is not that good, love is
essential and experience is everything. And that even kids five …
00:18:25 |
Fri 25 Jul 2008
Braincast 009 - Love
Real feelings at Braincast: vital, neurological and hormonal insights about infatuation, love and being dumped. Featuring voles and fidelity, homosexuality and hypothalamus, orgasms in scanners and b…
00:19:22 |
Sat 12 Jul 2008
Braincast 008 - Basics: Brain Cells
This Braincast looks deep into the structure of our brain: what do brain cells look like, how do they operate, how do they communicate and – just a tiny start – how do meaning and decission emerge fr…
00:18:02 |
Sat 12 Jul 2008
Braincast 007 - The Phantom Body
Are we our body? Or does it just carry us through the world? Braincast
7 is about this internal relationship of brain, body and mind. This is
much more complex than it feels like, and has some strang…
00:16:55 |
Sat 21 Jun 2008
Braincast 006 - Reward System
Man is driven by emotions. So the reward system promises heavenly joy once we reach our goal. This makes it rather a motivational system – and it´s one of the best ideas of evolution.
00:16:29 |
Sat 07 Jun 2008
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