Level Up: Your Brain on Video Games with Heather Berlin

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🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Do video games really turn your mind to mush? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice explore the effects of video games and eSports on the brain with neuroscientist Dr. Heather Berlin at PocketLab’s Science Is Cool Virtual Unconference.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:13.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:16.0	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:20.0	And we're coming to you in this moment live at Pocket Labs Science is cool, Jamboree.
0:28.0	And we're going to be talking about eSports in particular what's going on inside the brain of those engaged in it.
0:38.0	And for that, I need expertise far beyond anything I carry.
0:41.0	And we've got a good friend of Star Talks called Heather Berlin.
0:45.0	She's a professor of psychiatry at the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
0:51.0	And she's a neuroscientist.
0:54.0	So in addition to that, we've got Chuck Nice. Can't do this without Chuck Nice.
0:58.0	Our in house funny man.
1:02.0	Heather, welcome back.
1:04.0	Hey.
1:05.0	Yeah, you're all in.
1:07.0	I'm all in. Thanks for having me.
1:09.0	Always fun to do here.
1:11.0	Yeah, so just a couple of things.
1:13.0	The people who have sort of a bite.
1:15.0	I mean, maybe just old parks.
1:16.0	I don't know.
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