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The Music-Brain Connection
This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg
08/23/19 • 13 min
“Neuro-pianist” and conductor Eitan Globerson explains the intricate connections between a musician’s instrument, hands, and brain and how the power of music can heal and improve brain performance and enrich our lives.
Sex and Scent: What Your Nose Knows
This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg
05/31/19 • 10 min
Sexual attraction starts with a whiff of signals that gets your motor running. Your nose -- and brain – are behind your gender, sexual orientation, and choice of partner. Kayt Sukel explains how the brain rules when it comes to sex and love.
The Incredible Shrinking Attention Span
This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg
03/08/24 • 26 min
Is the deluge of digital media killing our ability to focus? Psychologist Gloria Mark, a professor in the Department of Informatics at University of California, Irvine, explains how we are shaped by what we pay attention to – and why today’s short snippets of everything are reinforcing short attention spans. Learn how playing a few minutes of Solitaire on your phone can help relieve stress, and why it can be so hard to stop. And in case you need to ask, you’ll find out why it’s such a bad idea to give an iPad to a baby.
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Coming Next Friday - Training to Be Yourself
This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg
10/13/23 • 1 min
Dr. Chantel Prat, a cognitive neuroscientist and professor at the University of Washington, studies how variations in brain wiring make each of us unique individuals and drive our understanding of each other.
Coming Next Friday - Controlled Hallucination
This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg
12/22/23 • 1 min
You may think your experience of life comes from the outside, with your brain processing sensory information as it's received. Anil Seth, professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience at the University of Sussex in England, takes a different view.
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Coming Next Friday - "What Are Your Hands Saying?"
This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg
03/29/24 • 1 min
Susan Golden Meadow, PhD, professor of psychology and comparative human development at the University of Chicago, is an expert on gestures – what they mean, why they don't always agree with what words we are using.
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Immerse Yourself in Happiness
This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg
10/18/24 • 27 min
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, if you will.
Oxytocin facilitates social engagement, encourages bonding, and just makes us feel happier. My guest today, neuroscientist Paul Zak, has done decades of research into the role of oxytocin and discovered that this feel-good chemical motivates us to engage with others. Not only that, but immersing ourselves in social circles, among people who are nice to us, increases oxytocin and improves our mood. (High stress, on the other hand, inhibits oxytocin and makes us feel unhappy.)
Find out how to harness the power of oxytocin to live a happier, healthier, life.
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Coming This Friday - The Brink of Death
This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg
05/03/22 • 1 min
Near-death experiences may seem like the stuff of supermarket tabloids, but there are real patterns to what people report after coming close to departing this life. Dr. Bruce Greyson has been studying near-death experiences for decades and has stories to tell about out-of-body phenomena, that light at the end of the tunnel, and a near-universal finding of new meaning in life after coming close to death.
Finding Your Soul in Ice
This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg
09/23/22 • 27 min
Extreme athlete Wim Hof has set records for immersion in icy water, and he recommends it for physical and mental health. Find out why his wife's suicide drove Hof to master controlled hyperventilation -- in breathtaking cold -- to become happy, strong, and healthy. (Everything else, he'll tell you, is BS.) Surprisingly, heart and brain science just may support the Wim Hof Method.
Plus...contrasting ice and fire, with a firewalking story courtesy of Jim Metzner www.pulseplanet.com
The Promise of Stem Cell Therapy
This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg
09/06/19 • 23 min
Stem cells hold the potential to change the landscape of medicine and bring patient care and well-being into a new era. Neurosurgeon Robert Hariri, MD, PhD, talks about the possibilities and promise of using placental stem cells to target cancer cells, control diseases like HIV, restore brain function, and extend life expectancy.
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How many episodes does This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg have?
This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg currently has 225 episodes available.
What topics does This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg cover?
The podcast is about Health & Fitness, Podcasts, Science and Health.
What is the most popular episode on This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg?
The episode title 'Fighting Parkinson’s with DBS' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg?
The average episode length on This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg is 17 minutes.
How often are episodes of This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg released?
Episodes of This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg are typically released every 7 days, 5 hours.
When was the first episode of This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg?
The first episode of This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg was released on Mar 26, 2019.
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