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This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg
This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg provides a fascinating look into the human brain, with each episode asking new questions — and finding new answers — about our most mysterious organ. Together with his expert guests, Dr. Stieg takes us on a journey that reveals unexpected secrets at every turn,...
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Coming Next Friday - When the Surgeon Becomes the Patient
Dr. Henry Marsh is a brain surgeon who suddenly found himself on the other side of a life-threatening diagnosis. He doesn't shy away from the revealin...
Grief Is Not Just Sadness - Mary-Frances O'Connor
Have you ever felt the type of grief where it seemed like you would never recover, like your heart was actually broken? Whether it’s a member of your...
Coming Next Friday - Grief Is Not Just Sadness
Dr. Mary Frances O'Connor, a neuroscientist and psychologist who has spent decades studying the effects of what happens in our brain and our entire bo...
Why Play Is Not Just Kid’s Stuff
When was the last time you actually took time to play, to simply have fun? For most adults, the answer is usually not often enough. The benefits of...
"Dad Brain"
Women obviously go through many changes to their bodies and their minds when they become mothers. But what about fathers? Although moms have been st...
Forgive and Flourish: The Healing Power of Letting Go
Dr. Fred Luskin, director of the Stanford Forgiveness Projects, explains how releasing resentment can transform both mind and body. Drawing on decades...
Why We Dream
What are your dreams really telling you? Renowned sleep researcher Dr. Robert Stickgold joins Dr. Stieg to unravel the mysteries of dreaming. From the...
Taming The Tremor
What happens when your hands refuse to listen to your brain? For Alexandra Lebenthal, essential tremor was more than a neurological disorder, it was a...
Stories Make Us Human
Everyone loves a good story. And so do our brains. Whether its books, movies, fairy tales, or even office gossip, stories are much more than just en...
Why We Procrastinate
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Join Us For Season Six, Coming Spring 2025
For five seasons now, I've been delighted to explore the wonders of the brain with my guests as well as with you, my listeners. Podcasting is fun and...
How Love Helps Kids Learn
Humans are born with billions of neurons that need connecting – and how those synapses develop helps determine how our brains will work. There is ampl...
Will Loneliness Be the Death of Us?
It’s no surprise that feeling lonely is associated with depression, but did you know that loneliness may also lead to chronic inflammation, changes in...
Calm Yourself!
Pain and fear are inevitable, especially these days, but we can retrain our brains to reduce suffering. Dr. Sara Lazar, Assistant Professor in Psychol...
Demystifying Suicide
Humans are so powerfully wired for survival that it can be hard to understand suicide - especially in adolescents. What happens in the brain that can...
Obesity Is Not Your Fault
The past 30 years have produced an epidemic of obesity -- mostly because evolution did not prepare us for so many calories and so little physical acti...
Immerse Yourself in Happiness
What makes us happy? The warm feelings of closeness that we have with family and friends are rooted in the neurochemical oxytocin – the love hormone,...
Things Don’t Have To Fall Apart
Daniel Levitin says we can all age successfully if we take our choices more seriously now. The neuroscientist and author reveals the keys to reaching...
Art Makes Us Human
We are the only species that creates and experiences art – not just visual art but music, poetry, dance, theater, and even architecture. The impact th...
Transcendental Meditation
Dr. Tony Nader, an academic, author, and the leader of the Transcendental Meditation movement, knows how you can find inner peace. TM is like a deep d...
Making Sense of Creativity
Why are some people capable of creating music, art, books, or new technologies, seemingly out of thin air? Where do imagination and creativity live in...
Talking With Dolphins
Dolphins have large, complex brains that are a lot like the human model -- what if we could get inside their heads and communicate with them? Meet cog...
The Mercurial Genius of Candace Pert
Candace Pert discovered the opioid receptor, created a drug to stop AIDS in the brain, and identified stress as a cause of disease. She also inadverte...
Whispers & Tingles – ASMR with Craig Richard
ASMR, or the autonomous sensory meridian response, is a state of deep calm accompanied by a sense of “brain tingles.” Not everyone experiences it, but...
AI: Reverse Engineering the Brain
We will never create true artificial intelligence (if we really want that) until we know more about how the human brain works. Tech entrepreneur and a...
Decoding Brainwaves Into Language
Language originates as brain signals -- mysterious lines of squiggles -- that somehow turn into speech. Meet the neuroscientist who is turning those s...
Outsmarting Anxiety
We are programmed by evolution to be anxious - fear was a lifesaver for early humans! So are why are some 21st-century humans crippled by it? Catherin...
Exploring The Magic Mushroom
It's effective against depression, can help you stop smoking, even ease end-of-life distress. It's non-addictive, naturally occurring, and has been us...
A Memory Workout
Can't remember the fourth item on your grocery list? Nelson Dellis, a professional "memory athlete," can remember 100 things or more (though he still...
Do You Hear What I See?
Synesthesia is the mysterious mingling of the senses that creates the experience of "seeing" sounds or "hearing" colors. Neurologist Richard E. Cytowi...
What Are Your Hands Saying?
Most of us talk with our hands, some more than others, but what are we really saying? Susan Goldin-Meadow, PhD, professor of psychology and comparativ...
“The Change Is Gonna Come” - Menopause and the Brain
Menopause can wreak havoc on mood and body temperature as it signals the end of fertility, but some of the biggest changes it causes are in the brain....
The Incredible Shrinking Attention Span
Is the deluge of digital media killing our ability to focus? Psychologist Gloria Mark, a professor in the Department of Informatics at University of C...
Near Death Experiences (reprise)
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Game Changer - A Concussion Revolution (reprise)
The impact of mild traumatic brain injury extends far beyond the gridiron – concussions can happen anywhere, including playing fields, bike paths, and...
Do Our Dogs Really Love Us ?
Dogs and the humans who cherish them have a unique bond unlike any other. We wonder all too often, do our dogs love us as much as we love them? What a...
Music’s Powerful Impact on the Brain
In this classic episode recorded live at the Juilliard School in the fall of 2019 Dr. Stieg visits with world-renowned soprano Renée Fleming - a leadi...
Controlled Hallucination
What world do you live in? You may think your experience of life comes from the outside, with your brain processing sensory information as it's receiv...
Connecting the Heart and Brain
The brain and the heart are in constant communication, sending signals that control and respond to each other, so it’s no surprise that what’s good fo...
Using All 5 of Your Minds
Forget the standard IQ test - that only measures a very narrow definition of intelligence. Meet psychologist Howard Gardner, professor of cognition an...