Sonja Lyubomirsky: The How of Happiness
[41:11] Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside and author of The How of H…
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Thomas Insel: Rethinking Mental Illness
[1:07:20] Thomas Insel, MD, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health and former psychiatry professor at Em…
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A Brain That Can’t Hear Music
[6:34] Oliver Sacks discusses some bizarre cases from his book “Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.…
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Sam Harris: The brain
[2:43] Sam Harris discusses the brain in reference to the afterlife. [Video source: Morphing Reality YouTube channel…
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Ways to Bring the Brain Dead ‘Back to Life’
[5:00] Would you get a brain cell transplant? And just how many cells can you have replaced without becoming a whole new p…
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Mike Merzenich: How Do Human Brains Work?
[9:26] How can human brains run our physical bodies and produce our mental minds? What are the general principles of hum…
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The Science of Stress: From Psychology to Physiology
[50:40] Stress is our natural reaction to physical or emotional pressure, encompassing everything from too much work …
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Doctors Have to Trick Your Brain’s Defenses to Heal You, Here’s Why
[4:00] Your body keeps your brain and your blood separate to filter out toxins and viruses. However, this barrier might …
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Siddhartha Mukherjee: The Gene – Unlocking the Human Code
[1:22:01] Genetics has revolutionised not just how we think of biology but how we think of ourselves. We are, in the word…
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