Ali Mattu: My Brother The Trekkie
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2016
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Psychologist Ali Mattu didn't know what he wanted to be as a kid, but his older brother helped him find inspiration in Star Trek. Ali is a clinical psychologist at the Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders where he specializes in the treatment of OCD, hair-pulling and skin-picking disorders. Outside of the hospital, Ali is an advocate for the brain and behavior sciences through his positions on national psychological associations and his presentations at comic cons. He writes about the psychology of science fiction at BrainKnowsBetter.com in the hopes that it will help others develop a love for psychology, just like Star Trek did for him. Ali's also the host of The Psych Show, a YouTube channel dedicated to making psychology fun and easy to understand.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientists the... |
| 0:06.0 | It felt... |
| 0:07.0 | It felt... |
| 0:08.0 | I was so... |
| 0:09.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:13.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | Hi, everyone. I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, |
| 0:26.9 | where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:30.1 | This week's stories from Ali Matu. |
| 0:31.7 | It was recorded in December 2015 at Union Hall in Brooklyn. |
| 0:48.3 | So I was born in San Jose, California, but you probably know this place as Silicon Valley. And I came of age right after the PC revolution was ending and a few years before the internet revolution was |
| 0:55.0 | beginning. You'd think that being in this world of innovation and just so much technological |
| 1:01.6 | advancement, some of that stuff would rub off on me. But it didn't. I was a kid who would play |
| 1:07.7 | video games and then get hungry and ride my bike to Burger King, |
| 1:12.3 | where I'd get a whopper because it was a 99 cents for a limited time, |
| 1:16.0 | which ended up lasting like a decade. |
| 1:18.6 | And then I would come home. |
| 1:20.2 | That was kind of my day. |
| 1:22.2 | That's what I did. |
| 1:23.4 | My dad was really worried about me. |
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