How many neurons does the typical human brain contain? The oft-quoted number of 100 billion turns out to have been a guess that was wrong! By a lot! Dr. Suzana Herculano-Houzel is the Brazilian neuroscientist who developed a revolutionary new technique for accurately counting the neurons in brains of all sizes. She shocked the scientific community when she determined that the average human brain contains only 86 billion neurons, but we still have more neurons in our cerebral cortex than any other species. Learn what all this means in Brain Science 133. Please visit <a href= "http://brainsciencepodcast.com">http://brainsciencepodcast.com</a> for detailed show notes and episode transcripts. Send email to Dr. Campbell at <a href= "mailto:brainsciencepodcast@gmail.com">brainsciencepodcast@gmail.com</a> or leave voice feedback at <a href= "http://speakpipe.com/docartemis">http://speakpipe.com/docartemis</a>.

BS 134 Remember Jaak Panksepp, pioneer of Affective Neuroscience

Brain Science is hosted by Virginia "Ginger" Campbell, MD (Podcast Hall of Fame 2022).  She is an experienced physician with a passion for exploring how recent discoveries in neuroscience are revealing how our brains make us who we are. This podcast is for non-scientists, scientists, and everyone in between. It features interviews and discusses the latest books about the brain.