Episode Details

“Placebo effects are real and mind-body effects are real, and there's a fairly large scientific literature on these things,” says Joshua W. Brown, Ph.D.

Brown is a professor of Psychological and Brain Science at Indiana University, where he directs the Cognitive Control Lab. He also co-founded the Global Medical Research Institute With decades of experience in computational neuroscience and over 79 peer-reviewed publications, he brings the same rigorous scientific methodology to extraordinary claims of healing that he applies to understanding the brain.

00:00 - A neuroscientist's brain tumor diagnosis

07:29 - Prayer with expectation

10:43 - The biology of belief

12:13 - Inside the Global Medical Research Institute

17:14 - Even known placebos still work

20:27 - The science of miracles 

24:10 - Conversion disorders & the mind-body line

32:02 - The brain is a prediction machine

38:02 - How chronic stress writes itself into the body

41:18 - Why "just believe" doesn't work

43:22 - Healing happens in community

47:16 - When neuroscience met the Dalai Lama

50:26 - The morning practice that grounds his day

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To learn more about Brown, visit his website: https://joshbrownneuro.com/ 

Buy Brown’s book here: https://a.co/d/07qL3LKj 

To learn more Brown’s research, or to report your own miracle, visit the Global Medical Research Institute website: https://www.globalmri.org/ 
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