Dr. Dale E. Bredesen joins us to talk about current treatment options used to combat Alzheimer’s disease.
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Where Memories Live In The Mind
Alcino J. Silva of the UCLA Brain Research Institute joins us to talk about the latest research into memory storage.
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Brain Damage And The Future Of Football
Neurologist Jesse Mez joins us to talk about a new study of former NFL player’s brains and what the findings might mean for the future of football.
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What Makes Us Curious
Astrophysicist Mario Livio joins us to talk about our urge to know what we don’t and how our brains are wired to want to learn.
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The Measure Of Genius
Claudia Kalb joins us to talk about how Einstein, Michelangelo and others harnessed their creativity, perseverance and other traits to become the towering minds of their times.
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The Teenage Brain
Adriana Galván of the UCLA Brain Research Institute joins us to talk about how the teen mind develops.
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The Case Of Patient H.M.
This hour, we’ll talk about how scientists seized on the opportunity to study Henry Molaison – and how that research has provided vital information about how human’s store information with Luke Dittrich, author of “Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets.”
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Your Brain On Parasites
This hour, we’ll talk about how microscopic creatures can infest the minds of much larger beings – and how they can affect their personalities – with the author of “This is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society.”
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Anxiety And The Brain
We’ll talk about anxiety and current treatment options with Scott Stossel, author of “My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind.”
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Navigating The Data Dump
One of the downsides of the Internet Age is that all of that information can be overwhelming. We’ll talk this hour about how our brains can better process all of the data available to us with Daniel J. Levitin, whose new book is The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload.
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