Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAnil Seth, "Being You: A New Science of Consciousness" (Dutton, 2020)
Episode 57
Anil Seth's quest to understand the biological basis of conscious experience is one of the most exciting contributions to twenty-first-century scienc…
4 years, 7 months ago
Jennifer Groh, “Knowing One’s Place: Space and the Brain” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 39
Knowing One’s Place: Space and the Brain is based on an in-depth, filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Jennifer Groh, Professor of Psycholog…
4 years, 7 months ago
Roy Richard Grinker, "Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness" (Norton, 2021)
Episode 140
Stigma about mental illness makes life doubly hard for people suffering from mental or emotional distress. In addition to dealing with their conditio…
4 years, 7 months ago
Jennifer L. Lambe, "Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History" (UNC Press, 2017)
Episode 1063
"On the outskirts of Havana lies Mazorra, an asylum known to--and at times feared by--ordinary Cubans for over a century. Since its founding in 1857,…
4 years, 7 months ago
Mara Buchbinder, "Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America" (U California Press, 2021)
Episode 134
Over the past five years, medical aid-in-dying (also known as assisted suicide) has expanded rapidly in the United States, and is now legally availab…
4 years, 7 months ago
Fred Gitelman, “In the Cards” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 34
In the Cards is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Fred Gitelman, world-champion bridge player and co-founder of Brid…
4 years, 7 months ago
Jay Gargus, “Autism: A Genetic Perspective” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 32
Autism: A Genetic Perspective is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Jay Gargus, Professor of Physiology, Biophysics a…
4 years, 7 months ago
Uta Frith, “Exploring Autism” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 31
Exploring Autism is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and one of the world’s leading experts on autism Uta Frith, Profes…
4 years, 7 months ago
Chris Frith, “In Search of a Mechanism: From the Brain to the Mind” (Open Agenda, 2020)
Episode 30
In Search of a Mechanism: From the Brain to the Mind is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Chris Frith, Emeritus Prof…
4 years, 8 months ago
Barbara Fredrickson, “The Science of Emotions” (Open Agenda, 2020)
Episode 29
The Science of Emotions is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Barbara Fredrickson, Director Positive Emotions & Psych…
4 years, 8 months ago