Lise Eliot

The book she refers to is hers, Pink Brain, Blue Brain. Apparently she's written a bunch of stuff; the rest of the video is here.

from Fora.tv:

Dr. Lise Eliot, Associate Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Chicago Medical School, received her Ph.D. in Physiology and Cellular Biophysics from Columbia University in 1991. Working in Eric Kandel's laboratory, she combined electrophysiology and calcium imaging methods to analyze the synaptic mechanisms underlying learning in the marine mollusc, Aplysia californica.