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Explain the Brain

29 Episodes

1 minutes | Oct 28, 2016
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15 minutes | Oct 10, 2016
Ep. 27 Joy Hirsch and the Future of Neuroscience
This Yale researcher wants to take her field in a completely new direction.
12 minutes | Aug 23, 2016
Ep. 25 Jim Fallon and the Psychopaths, Part 3
Can a borderline psychopath rehabilitate himself?
6 minutes | Aug 22, 2016
Ep. 26 Jim Fallon and the Psychopaths, Part 4
How to spot the psychopaths in our political history, and our current election.
7 minutes | Aug 16, 2016
Ep. 24 Jim Fallon and the Psychopaths, Part 2
How to stop a psychopath. Hint: You've got to start early.
13 minutes | Aug 9, 2016
Ep. 23 Jim Fallon and the Psychopaths, Part 1
A neuroscientist makes an unsettling discovery.
10 minutes | May 3, 2016
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.
19 minutes | Mar 31, 2016
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.
8 minutes | Feb 27, 2016
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.
11 minutes | Feb 5, 2016
Ep.19 Stephen Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde and Neuromagic
Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde reveal what magicians can teach neuroscientists.
6 minutes | Dec 24, 2015
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.
5 minutes | Dec 17, 2015
Ep. 17 David Eagleman And Synesthesia (rebroadcast)
What's really going on in the minds of synesthetes?
6 minutes | Nov 27, 2015
Ep. 16 David Eagleman And Neurolaw (rebroadcast)
Conventional thinking about brains, and blame, can be useless in a court of law.
6 minutes | Nov 12, 2015
Ep. 15 David Eagleman And Our Perception of Time (rebroadcast)
That whole idea of an internal clock? It's a lie.
19 minutes | Oct 22, 2015
Ep. 14 Maria Konnikova And Mindfulness
The author of "Mastermind" explains how to better use your brain.
9 minutes | Sep 24, 2015
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.
7 minutes | Aug 27, 2015
Ep. 12 Diana Reiss And Dolphin Consciousness
Hunter College cognitive psychologist Diana Reiss describes her search for the Rosetta Stone of dolphin language.
9 minutes | Jul 23, 2015
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.
6 minutes | Oct 21, 2014
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.
5 minutes | Oct 14, 2014
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.
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