The Resilient Brain
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English - June 12, 2021 11:00 - 51 minutes - 71.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 782 ratingsPersonal Journals Society & Culture knowledge ttbook wpr prx wisconsin Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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New experiences actually rewire the brain. So after all we’ve been through this year, you have to wonder — are we different? We consider the "COVID brain" from the perspective of both neuroscience and the arts. Also, we go to Cavendish, Vermont to hear the remarkable story of Phineas Gage, the railroad worker whose traumatic brain injury changed the history of neuroscience.
Original Air Date: October 10, 2020
Guests:
Margo Caulfield — David Eagleman — llan Stavans
Interviews In This Hour:
How Phineas Gage's Freak Accident Changed Brain Science — 'COVID Brain' and the New Frontiers of Neuroplasticity — The Pandemic and the Poets