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In this episode, Anat Baniel and Donna Jackson Nakazawa discuss: • the smallest cell in the brain—microglia—how it works and its function as an immune system; • groundbreaking discoveries about the brain and how microglia link mental and physical health; • how chronic stressors and trauma...
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Donna Jackson Nakazawa is an award-winning journalist and internationally-recognized speaker whose work explores the intersection of neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion.
It's one of most paradigm-shifting and powerful stories in the history of medicine, writes Donna Jackson Nakazawa. From MS to Parkinson's to Lupus and depression and schizophrenia the microglia, a tiny brain cell, is changing how we understand physical and psychiatric illness.
https://www.eeglearn.com/bir Emerging research shows that how safe we feel in the world has a profound impact on our mental, physical, and immune health. When we at last emerge from the pandemic, we are poised for a mental health crisis of epic proportions.
In my keynote for the 2019 New Jersey Prevention Network Annual Conference in Atlantic City, I explain how childhood adversity can change body and brain, triggering epigenetic shifts that affect physical and mental health later in life; why girls are at higher risk for Adverse Childhood Experiences...
Biological anthropologist Helen Fisher walks us through the biology of love. From the importance of one-night stands to the solidity of marriage, Fisher shreds the common wisdom of what love is and isn't in the 21st century.
Learn about the evolution and future of human sex, love, marriage, gender differences in the brain and how your personality type shapes who you are and who you love.
A conversation with the biological anthropologist and Rutgers University professor Helen Fisher
"What is a conscious self ? What exactly makes an experience a subjective phenomenon ? Starting with the neurology of out-of-body experiences and the breakdown of bodily mechanisms of self-consciousness, this talk presents novel neuroscience data on self-consciousness and subjectivity in healthy...
Neuroscientists in Lausanne study the weird phenomenon to prove it's not an illusion, or paranormal, but an organic process triggered by a malfunction in a very specific spot inside the brain.