Final Taxi: - Charles Nelson Reilly has BLANKED

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Charles Nelson Reilly, an award-winning actor and a regular on variety and game shows, has taken his Final Taxi at age 76.

He was famous for his oversized glasses and colourful suits during numerous TV appearances in the 1970s and ’80s.

Reilly guested on sitcoms (Nanny and the Professor, The Patty Duke Show,, Here’s Lucy, etc.), sat down on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show couch 95 times and, of course, did game shows. Lots of game shows.

What’s My Line?, Baffle, Super Password and Hollywood Squares were among Reilly’s credits. Match Game was by far the biggest.

Reilly also voiced the Dirty Bubble, one of Mermaid Man’s enemies on Spongebob Squarepants.

Brain Science Podcast #12: Memory

This episode of the Brain Science Podcast is a discussion of memory based on the book, Memory: From Mind to Molecules (2000), by Larry R. Squire, and Eric R. Kandel.

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Show Notes

I highly recommend you get this book for yourself if you want to read the details of the experiments. The book contains excellent illustrations.

Some of the experimental animals mentioned in this episode include Aplysia (giant sea snails), Drosophila (fruit flies), and mice.

Mechanisms of memory formation and storage seem to be shared from the simplest non-vertebrates up through humans.

Types of Memory: declarative and non-declarative. Non-declarative memory is generally NOT subject to conscious awareness or control.

There are many different types of non-declarative memory including:

• motor skills
• habituation and sensitization
• classical and operant conditioning
• priming
• perceptual skills

Declarative memory, which seems to be unique to animals that have a hippocampus and cerebral cortex, includes short-term (immediate and working memory) and long-term memory. Much research has been devoted to discovering how and where long-term memory occurs. The answer may surprise you.

This episode includes a discussion of some of the unanswered questions in memory research.

Final Taxi: - You're Blacklisted

Taking their Final Taxi this week is the ‘Hollywood Blacklisted” screenwriter, Bernard Gordon, also favorite B-movie actor Nicholas Worth and film and TV veteran Dabbs Greer.

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Less than One Week Reminder!!! Podcasting Meetup!!!

What do an emergency physician, a punk rock DJ obsessed with dead people, a tank girl who has a thing for bunnies, and a production-crazed college student all have in common?
No, we’re not all losing our minds, we’re getting together. OK, maybe the better way to say it is that we’re holding a get together.
Tuesday May 22nd at the Pita Stop at 6pm, we’re looking to invite anyone and everyone interested in podcasting.
Yes, I said podcasting. It’s that new buzzword that’s been flying around for the last two or three years now and we want Birmingham to get in on this bandwagon.
We’ll be hanging out, grabbing some grub, and answering any questions that we can answer about podcasting.
If you have a remote interest in podcasting, audio production, or just wanna hang out with some cool people, come on out! We’d love to have you!

--DW

Dr. Ginger Campbell enters Talent Quest

I have finally got my entry up for the Public Radio Talent Quest, which is a contest for finding the next public radio host.

I hope you will go there and vote for me. For the first round, one is only allowed a 2 minute entry and the website wouldn't take mine until I cut it down to 1:50. Regular Brain Science Podcast listeners will recognize the opening, which is followed by a brief explanation of why I think I would make a good host. The page is located at http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/794. Please share the link with everyone you can think of! Voting continues through the first week of June, but please go vote NOW!

Brain Science Podcast #11: Emotion

In this episode of the Brain Science Podcast we explore the recent research that has established, contrary to long-standing dogma, that our brains our able to change throughout our lives, based on our experience.

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Show Notes

The reference for this episode is Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves, by Sharon Begley. This book describes the 2004 meeting between the Dalai Llama and several leading neuroscientists. To learn more about these meetings go to the Mind and Life Institute website. All the studies that I mention in the podcast are referenced in the back of the book.

Here is a list of the some of the scientists and there work.

• Michael Meany- McGill University. He has shown that the way that a mother rat treats her babies determine which genes in the baby's brain are turned on and which are turned off.
• Fred Gage- the Salk Institute His work with lab animals to showed that adult brains do change. (more from Google)
• Helen Neville-University of Oregon. She has shown that the auditory and visual cortexes are rewired in people who are born blind or deaf.
• Phillip Shaver-UC-Davis. He is a pioneer in attachment theory: how people's sense of emotional security, acquired in childhood, effects their adult behavior including their response to other ethnic groups and their willingness to help others
• Richard Davidson-Wisconsin. He has done studies showing how the brain is changed by meditation

• Edward Taub- University of Alabama in Birmingham. He helped develop a revolutionary treatment for stroke victims
• Jeffery Schwartz-UCLA. He has used mindfulness meditation to treat obsessive compulsive disorder, showing that meditation can change the brain in beneficial ways.
• Jon Kabat-Zinn- University of Massachusetts. He has done many years of work using mindfulness meditation to treat stress related diseases.

More Links of Interest:

• Fast Forword™ Treatment for Dsylexia

• Imposed Constraint Treatment for Stroke
  • Auto CITE at the VA
  • Stroke Registry Clinical Trials
    
  • Taub Therapy at UAB

• Treatment of Anxiety Disorders with Mindfulness Meditation
  • Dr. Jeffery Schwartz

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression
  • Brain Changes are different from those caused by medications
  • more Google links on how the brain changes

I am sure this list is incomplete. If you have a question or comment about a topic mentioned on the show, leave a comment below or send me email at docartemis at gmail.com

Birmingham Podcasters to meet for night of food, fun, and general mayhem

What do an emergency physician, a punk rock DJ obsessed with dead people, a tank girl who has a thing for bunnies, and a production-crazed college student all have in common?
No, we’re not all losing our minds, we’re getting together. OK, maybe the better way to say it is that we’re holding a get together.
Tuesday May 22nd at the Pita Stop at 6pm, we’re looking to invite anyone and everyone interested in podcasting.
Yes, I said podcasting. It’s that new buzzword that’s been flying around for the last two or three years now and we want Birmingham to get in on this bandwagon.
We’ll be hanging out, grabbing some grub, and answering any questions that we can answer about podcasting.
If you have a remote interest in podcasting, audio production, or just wanna hang out with some cool people, come on out! We’d love to have you!

--DW

Losing a Kitty and a Ho

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Kitty Carlisle Hart, the supremely elegant actress, singer, arts advocate and TV personality is remembered for her role as the romantic musical heroine of the 1935 Marx Brothers film "A Night at the Opera" and she sang in the 1948 U.S. premiere of Benjamin Britten's opera "The Rape of Lucretia." Her long run as a panelist on the game show "To Tell the Truth" made her a regular presence in the country's living rooms from the 1950s through the 1970s.


Don Ho was an iconic Hawaiian entertainer whose signature song, Tiny Bubbles, made him a major tourist attraction on the island and his name has always been synonymous with hula dancing and luaus.