Explain the Brain

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 hosted by public radio reporter Audrey Quinn.

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28 October 2016, 2:03 am
14 minutes 39 seconds

Ep. 27 Joy Hirsch and the Future of Neuroscience

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

10 October 2016, 11:22 pm
12 minutes 12 seconds

Ep. 25 Jim Fallon and the Psychopaths, Part 3

Can a borderline psychopath rehabilitate himself?

23 August 2016, 12:31 pm
5 minutes 50 seconds

Ep. 26 Jim Fallon and the Psychopaths, Part 4

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

22 August 2016, 10:31 pm
7 minutes 13 seconds

Ep. 24 Jim Fallon and the Psychopaths, Part 2

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

16 August 2016, 1:21 pm
13 minutes 9 seconds

Ep. 23 Jim Fallon and the Psychopaths, Part 1

A neuroscientist makes an unsettling discovery.

9 August 2016, 1:00 pm
9 minutes 34 seconds

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.

3 May 2016, 1:59 am
18 minutes 34 seconds

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.

31 March 2016, 11:22 pm
7 minutes 31 seconds

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.

27 February 2016, 3:25 am
10 minutes 49 seconds

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

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

5 February 2016, 1:53 am
5 minutes 58 seconds

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.

24 December 2015, 4:03 pm
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