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Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

How Could Virtual Reality Help Recover Memories? with Dr. Nanthia Suthana

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Comedy, Society & Culture, Education, Self-improvement

4.9 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Nanthia Suthana is a neuroscientist from UCLA who joins Jonathan to discuss memories, how the brain works, epilepsy, new breakthroughs in medical technologies, how virtual reality is used in therapy, and more. Find Dr. Suthana's work at http://neurosurgery.ucla.edu/nanthia-suthana. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Getting Curious.

0:04.3

I'm Jonathan Bennes and every week I sit down for a gorgeous 30 minute conversation

0:08.0

with the brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

0:11.4

This week I'm curious at neuroscience and how virtual reality is being used to help recover

0:15.3

memories.

0:16.3

Honey, is that even true?

0:17.3

Are we in like Westworld?

0:18.3

Are we in Harry Potter?

0:19.3

Or are we even our way?

0:20.3

So I'm joined by one of the first researchers to be exploring this field, Dr. Nanti-A-Sutana.

0:24.3

So here's the thing, you're a PhD in what church or just title.

0:33.6

Title, I'm a neuroscientist.

0:35.4

Oh, you see.

0:36.4

I love that.

0:37.4

UCLA worked literally hitting up so many universities in Southern California today.

0:42.4

Like we're doing USC.

0:43.4

We're doing UCLA.

0:44.4

We're doing so many smart, powerful women I'm obsessed.

0:47.0

So neuroscience, how did you decide that you wanted, like did you always think you wanted

0:50.8

to do that when you were little?

0:51.8

No, actually I had no idea what I wanted to do.

0:54.2

And in college I sort of took a year off to explore and find my passions.

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