This hour, we’ll talk about new research into how we can keep our minds sharp and avoid dementia with David A. Bennett, director of the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center in Chicago.
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The Gender Gap In Cardiology
This hour, we’ll talk about why there are so few female heart doctors, how that effects patient care and what can be done to even out the numbers with Dr. Cara East of Baylor University Medical Center and Dr. Nina Asrani of Texas Health Fort Worth.
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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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The Geography Of Madness
This hour, we’ll talk about the most unusual syndromes found around the world with Frank Bures.
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The History Of Lithium
This hour, we’ll talk about how scientists learned to use lithium most effectively – and about its strong Texas ties – with University of Toronto psychiatry professor Dr. Edward Shorter.
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The Problem With Dieting
This hour, we’ll talk about the possibility that the practice of dieting itself might be keeping us from losing weight with neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt.
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Understanding Hoarding
This hour, we’ll talk about why some people find it difficult to discard possessions – and about how they can be helped – with Smith College psychology professor Randy Frost.
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The Cost Of Crowd-Sourcing A Cure
This hour, we’ll talk about how “compassionate use” protocols work – and about why they may actually make it more difficult for future patients to receive experimental drugs.
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Why Our Bodies Need Rest
This hour, we’ll talk about why our bodies need rest, the role of dreams in our subconscious and the consequences of sleep deprivation with Arianna Huffington of The Huffington Post.
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A New Understanding Of Addiction
This hour, we’ll talk about the possibility that alcoholics, drug abusers and compulsive gamblers may actually suffer from a learning disorder with Maia Szalavitz, author of “Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction.”
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The Politics Of Pain
This hour, we’ll talk about how our inability to agree on this most basic feeling has led to differences of opinion on legal issues with Keith Wailoo, vice dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
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The Right To Forget
This hour, we’ll explore the question of whether memorials may keep us from healing in the wake of tragedy with David Rieff, author of “In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies.”
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