Nicholas A. Christakis, director of the Human Nature Lab at Yale University, joins us to explain how for thousands of years we’ve actually evolved to co-exist in greater harmony.
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Hooked: Understanding Addiction
This hour on Think, we explore the topic of addiction with a former heroin addict, a historian who writes about America’s relationship with alcohol and a neuroscientist who studies the brains of addicts.
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Hooked: Understanding Addiction
This hour on Think, we explore the topic of addiction with a former heroin addict, a historian who writes about America’s relationship with alcohol and a neuroscientist who studies the brains of addicts.
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New Understandings Of Brain Injury
Neurologist Dr. Geoffrey Ling joins us to talk about new research into brain injury and resilience.
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It’s All In Your Head: How Marketers Hijack Our Brains
Dr. Robert Lustig talks about how marketers have learned to activate dopamine in our brains.
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An End To Alzheimer’s
This hour, we’ll talk about major drug trials and new research that could hold the key to unlocking how Alzheimer’s works.
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Brain-To-Brain Communication
This hour, we’ll talk with neuroscientist Dr. Miguel Nicolelis about the future of brain-machine interfacing.
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The Intimacy of Touch
Why is it we’re so happy to hug our mom but strangers set off a panic alarm? We’ll talk about the science of physical contact with a Johns Hopkins neuroscientist.
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On The Brain
This hour, we’ll explore how neurosurgeons had to experiment with different procedures to get to where we are with modern neuroscience with author Sam Kean.
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