Is there an instinct driving the brutality toward migrants, the focus on revenge and the attacks on valued programs? Is our anxiety one of the goals?
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Cognitive Patterns in Todays Politics
Cognitive neuroscience can shed some light on Trump's and Musk's minds. If you like this fresh lens for tracking the chaos, I hope you'll pass it on.
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Checking the truth of connections we make
To test plumbing connections, we turn on the faucet. But how do we test the truth of thought connections? Is it just a storyline or is it real wisdom?
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Rebooting our truth detecting skills
When is the media speaking the truth? For that matter, when is our own mind able to tell what’s true? First, let’s look at how flashes of intuition work.
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Accessing your best brain states
As adults, our brains could find the brain states to do whatever we wanted, whenever we wanted. But the aging brain takes more skill to operate well!
In these podcasts, Dr. Dee Coulter shares a lifetime of insights about the brain, how it works and how we can support it. She draws on five decades of teaching and scholarly studies. Her passion led to a doctorate in neurological studies early on, and still inspires her to keep scouring brain research for the newest discoveries. For the past few years, she has focused on exploring the exciting ways the mind can continue to grow and transform in the upper decades. She's calling this series Embracing the Mature Mind.