Explain the Brain

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Explain the Brain

29 episodes

9 months ago

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Ep. 27 Joy Hirsch and the Future of Neuroscience

This Yale researcher wants to take her field in a completely new direction.

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14 minutes 39 seconds

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Ep. 25 Jim Fallon and the Psychopaths, Part 3

Can a borderline psychopath rehabilitate himself?

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12 minutes 12 seconds

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Ep. 26 Jim Fallon and the Psychopaths, Part 4

How to spot the psychopaths in our political history, and our current election.

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5 minutes 50 seconds

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Ep. 24 Jim Fallon and the Psychopaths, Part 2

How to stop a psychopath. Hint: You've got to start early.

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7 minutes 13 seconds

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Ep. 23 Jim Fallon and the Psychopaths, Part 1

A neuroscientist makes an unsettling discovery.

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13 minutes 9 seconds

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Ep. 22 Zoran Josipovic and Meditation

This neuroscientist thinks Western science is missing the mark by studying the markers of consciousness, instead of the thing itself.

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9 minutes 34 seconds

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Ep. 21 Justin Hulbert and Memory Suppression

Justin Hulbert's found that by suppressing bad memories we may compromise our ability to form new memories.

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18 minutes 34 seconds

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Ep. 20 Heather Berlin and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Heather Berlin's a neuroscientist at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and she has a new theory for the causes behind OCD.

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7 minutes 31 seconds

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Ep.19 Stephen Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde and Neuromagic

Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde reveal what magicians can teach neuroscientists.

9 years ago

10 minutes 49 seconds

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Ep. 18 David Eagleman And Sensory Substitution (rebroadcast)

Neuroscientist David Eagleman is creating a new device to help blind people "see." And it looks a lot like an an athletic vest.

9 years ago

5 minutes 58 seconds

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Ep. 17 David Eagleman And Synesthesia (rebroadcast)

What's really going on in the minds of synesthetes?

9 years ago

5 minutes 5 seconds

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Ep. 16 David Eagleman And Neurolaw (rebroadcast)

Conventional thinking about brains, and blame, can be useless in a court of law.

9 years ago

5 minutes 30 seconds

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Ep. 15 David Eagleman And Our Perception of Time (rebroadcast)

That whole idea of an internal clock? It's a lie.

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5 minutes 45 seconds

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Ep. 14 Maria Konnikova And Mindfulness

The author of "Mastermind" explains how to better use your brain.

10 years ago

18 minutes 38 seconds

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Ep. 13 Anthony Greenwald And The Implicit Revolution

Modern psychology is just now coming to grips with our subconscious thoughts -- and finding there's not a lot we can do to control them.

10 years ago

8 minutes 56 seconds

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Ep. 12 Diana Reiss And Dolphin Consciousness

Hunter College cognitive psychologist Diana Reiss describes her search for the Rosetta Stone of dolphin language.

10 years ago

7 minutes 6 seconds

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Ep. 11 Joseph LeDoux And Anxiety

The way we’ve studied anxiety has been more helpful to rats in mazes than humans in stressful situations.

10 years ago

9 minutes 14 seconds

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Ep. 10: David Eagleman and Sensory Substitution

Neuroscientist David Eagleman is creating a new device to help blind people "see." And it looks a lot like an an athletic vest.

11 years ago

6 minutes 9 seconds

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Bonus Episode: Paul Zak and the Wonders of Oxytocin

This neuroeconomist thinks he's found a reason why we do nice things for other people.

11 years ago

5 minutes 8 seconds