Neuroscientist Dean Burnett - Grief, mental health and brains

Who Hurt You?

Sofie Hagen

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🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Sofie talks to Dean Burnett about mental health, brains, uncertainty, emotions, masculinity, crying, science, subjectivity, parenting, processing, awareness campaigns, the somatic marker hypothesis, and the difference between cabins and sheds.

Content Warning: COVID, mental health issues, grief, bereavement, death, losing a parent, loss, fitness, medication, depression, autism, therapy, OCD, bipoloar, CPTSD, schizophrenia

Dean has written these books that you should check out: The Idiot Brain, The Happy Brain, Psycho-Logical (and for teenagers - Why Your Parents Are Driving You Up the Wall and What To Do About It): https://www.deanburnett.com

Produced by Dave Pickering

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0:00.0	The main problem is that you can't really objectively measure or assess the mind.
0:04.8	You can't look directly at it.
0:06.2	You can't put value on it.
0:07.0	You can't put a boundary on it.
0:08.0	You can't say, oh, it weighs this much.
0:09.3	It's this size, it's this color.
0:10.6	It looks like this because it's the mind.
0:12.9	It's completely intangible.
0:14.5	It's based on a physical thing,
0:15.8	obviously, the brain and body work in ways that they do
0:18.4	and produce in this consciousness we have.
0:21.5	How that happens, we don't know.
0:22.9	That's one of the big questions.
0:24.3	Why do all these busy neurons throughout the brain?
0:26.6	Why do they all combine it as one conscious person
0:29.2	that we end up being?
0:30.2	Duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, boom, boom, boom.
0:32.8	You are listening to who hurt you.
0:36.1	We still don't have a jinxly yet so that it'll have to do.
0:38.6	In this episode, I am speaking to neuroscientist, author, blogger,
0:42.3	and all-round science guy, Dean Bonnet,
0:44.8	who's behind the brainy books about brains,
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