Brain Science Podcast discussion

Hi, I'm Charles, I'm a tradesman in Australia in my early 30s.
I'm probably going to ramble a bit here, and I can see this forum hasn't been active for over a year.
So to whomever stumbles across this, hi! I appreciate you and your time, so the tl;dr is:

I've always wanted to study and work in neuroscience, this podcast is reigniting that passion!

I've always been very interested in brain science, especially advanced prosthetics, but never took it upon myself to learn more about it (assuming there would not be a lot of entry level literature and that I would have to go to university to study it, something I wanted to do for a very long time).

I've recently been diagnosed with ADD and have gone down a path of trying to understand how my brain is different from others. I was recommended a book by my psychologist "Healing ADD" by Dr. Amen that made me consider ADD as biological as well as psychological. I now gather this to be a fairly controversial book in psychiatric circles...

Earlier this week I listened to an interview with Professor Pankaj Sah, the institute director of the Queensland Brain Institute, part of the University of Queensland in Australia. The interview was about brain plasticity and possible treatment of PTSD. Very very interesting.

But this lead me to recall my years long desire to study brain science and engineering, to begin working on advanced prosthetics involving brain integration. As part of that I googled "neuroscience podcast", the first result was "Best 15 Neuroscience Podcasts" and this was number one!

So I listened to ep.118 "Neuroanatomy for Everyone" because it seemed like it was meant to be approachable. I loved it, it was a bit too technical in some places, but I suspect that's because I listen to podcasts while I work and can't always fully focus on them.

After ep. 118 I subscribed to your premium channel and have been listening to them all from episode 1. I'm really loving the time-warp back to those earlier days of the internet, and remembering issues with flash player when smart phones first appeared!

I'm currently up to ep.21 "body maps" and was prompted to join the forum to say I have definitely felt the extended body map when operating large machinery. I was an excavator operator for a short time and can distinctly remember feeling like the machine was an extention of my body, and that I would envision the machine's arms moving rather than my hand's movements on the controls.

Again, thank you for putting together such an informative and approachable podcast! I'm sure I'll touch base here again throughout my journey.

Hi Charles, I'm also in Australia, and am also going through the podcasts from the start. They're great aren't they!

Podcasts are very very informative , science based and sometime mind blowing, not to mention host and guests who are amazing. Worth every penny and time of yours.

Hello Charles in Australia!!! Hello to everyone else!!!
I'm in New Jersey, USA.
What little I know of your Country is from a very entertaining book written by Bill Bryson, titled "In a Sunburned Country". I particularly remember the Flinders Ranges being the site of an exciting find of Ediacaran fossils in 1946.
I first started listening to this podcast in 2007 or thereabouts. Food for thought on my long drive to work each day.
Dr. Campbell is one of those unsung heroes who has spent a good part of her life working to inform listeners of the inner workings of our brains.
I can't thank her enough!