Neuroscientist Sidarta Ribeiro joins us to discuss how dreams are connected to how we learn and even how we understand our existence.
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Why Your Brain Loves A Mystery
Author Jonah Lehrer joins us to discuss the psychology, neuroscience, and anthropology of why we love solving puzzles, finding patterns and discovering the unknown.
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What It’s Like To Gain A Sense
Dr. Susan R. Barry, professor emeritus of biology and neuroscience at Mount Holyoke College, joins us to discuss three case histories, including her own, of people gaining a new way of seeing or hearing at an older age.
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What Does A Depressed Brain Look Like?
Simon Lewsen joins us to discuss why researchers looking into the origins and biology of depression have such a hard time collecting complete data to build a brain modeling system to help diagnose disease.
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Your Brain On Autopilot
This hour, we’ll talk with a sleep expert about how the mind uses dreaming to process day-to-day events and prepare us for the future; we’ll learn how seeing “ghosts” might actually be a by-product of processing grief; and we’ll explore ways to cultivate the mind in order to achieve peak performance.
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How Your Brain Rewires Itself
Neuroscientist David Eagleman, host of the Emmy-nominated television series “The Brain,” joins us to talk about the latest understanding of how our minds work.
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How To Live Better As We Live Longer
Daniel Levitin is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at McGill University, and he joins us to talk about what he calls human life’s two stages: “healthspan” and “diseasespan,” and explain how brain science can promote the former.
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Are Male and Female Brains Really So Different?
Kevin Mitchell, Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin, joins us to talk about current studies on gender differences in the brain.
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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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Why We Never Think Alone
Steven Sloman joins us to talk about how we tap into the vast intelligence of those around us in order to navigate our worlds.
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Life In The Perpetual Now
Michael Lemonick joins us to talk about the story of Lonnie Sue Johnson who contracted encephalitis in 2007. The disease left her with almost no memories and no ability to form new ones.
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How To Get Close
This hour, we’ll talk about how we can strengthen the neural pathways in our brains that foster closeness with psychiatrist Amy Banks.
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