Neuroverse - Communicating Neuroscience in the 21st Century (with Dr Ginger Campbell)

Communicating Neuroscience in the 21st Century (with Dr Ginger Campbell)

09/29/22 • 29 min

In today's episode Carolina and Clara are joined with special guest Dr Ginger Campbell who hosts the award-winning Brain Science podcast. They discuss the importance of communicating neuroscience and how having an understanding of how the brain works helps us as individuals and societally to have more compassion towards one another. Biases and beliefs are often down to dopamine-reward systems. The binary "right or wrong" answer structure education is built upon is restrictive of mistakes being made, which its essential to learning. "People are the mot unpredictable thing you'll encounter in life", emphasizes our social nature and how the best way to keep your mind sharp, flexible and open minded is to be social. Dr Ginger Campbell's podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/7H43cPPVvHxRob3qE00RAE?si=c272d7cf727046d8 Dr Ginger Campbell's website: https://www.virginiacampbellmd.com Website: https://neuroversecc.wixsite.com/podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/neuroverse_pod?s=21&t=KvAEuwGNKFQ9IPKlL7NTEg Support us! https://ko-fi.com/neuroverse Listen via Sybel and generate crypto through a positive ecosystem where both podcaster and listener profit: https://tse.sybel.io/D4834B67AD --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/neuroverse9/message

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In today's episode Carolina and Clara are joined with special guest Dr Ginger Campbell, who hosts the award-winning Brain Science podcast. They discuss the importance of communicating neuroscience and how having an understanding of how the brain works helps both individuals and societies to have more compassion towards one another, based on Dr Ginger Campbell's book "The Unconscious Origins of Certainty". Biases and beliefs are often down to dopamine-based reward systems. Our education systems tend to be built upon a binary "right or wrong" way of thinking, which fuels our reward systems to look for the right answers. While this structure is essential to learning, what are the negative outcomes of such a way of thinking? "People are the most unpredictable thing you'll encounter in life", so what insights can neuroscience provide to help us understand human nature better?

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