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Explain the Brain
From The Mind Science Foundation (mindscience.org), a little show that asks big questions about our minds, with help from the boldest scientists in neuroscience and psychology. Produced and...
Episodes
20 of 29 episodes
Ep. 27 Joy Hirsch and the Future of Neuroscience
This Yale researcher wants to take her field in a completely new direction.
Ep. 25 Jim Fallon and the Psychopaths, Part 3
Can a borderline psychopath rehabilitate himself?
Ep. 26 Jim Fallon and the Psychopaths, Part 4
How to spot the psychopaths in our political history, and our current election.
Ep. 24 Jim Fallon and the Psychopaths, Part 2
How to stop a psychopath. Hint: You've got to start early.
Ep. 23 Jim Fallon and the Psychopaths, Part 1
A neuroscientist makes an unsettling discovery.
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.
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.
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.
Ep.19 Stephen Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde and Neuromagic
Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde reveal what magicians can teach neuroscientists.
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.
Ep. 17 David Eagleman And Synesthesia (rebroadcast)
What's really going on in the minds of synesthetes?
Ep. 16 David Eagleman And Neurolaw (rebroadcast)
Conventional thinking about brains, and blame, can be useless in a court of law.
Ep. 15 David Eagleman And Our Perception of Time (rebroadcast)
That whole idea of an internal clock? It's a lie.
Ep. 14 Maria Konnikova And Mindfulness
The author of "Mastermind" explains how to better use your brain.
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.
Ep. 12 Diana Reiss And Dolphin Consciousness
Hunter College cognitive psychologist Diana Reiss describes her search for the Rosetta Stone of dolphin language.
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.
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.
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.