Parenting and the Brain with Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

To understand the brain’s function and methods is to get some much needed distance from family dynamics so that we might understand them more fully. Lisa Feldman Barrett has been researching and writing about how emotions are made for many years. Kelly and Lisa met on the set of Tell Me More for PBS and they have been talking ever since, particularly about how neuroscience informs parenting. This is a conversation for anyone who has ever been stunned by an interaction, good or bad, and wondered what just happened? Check out Lisa’s books - How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain & Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain.

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0:00.0	Sometimes people ask, what's the thing I can do to help my kid teach my kid how to
0:04.6	regulate their emotions?
0:05.9	And I'm like, make sure, first of all, that they know how to put themselves to sleep and
0:09.1	stay asleep for a sufficient amount of time.
0:18.6	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
0:20.1	I'm Kelly Corrigan, and today I am wondering about sleep, and the brain, and children, and
0:27.8	family life, and how neuroscience might help us navigate these wild waters more easily.
0:35.8	My thought partner today is Lisa Feldman-Barritt.
0:38.4	She's a neuroscientist, a psychologist, a distinguished professor.
0:42.5	She's also written the books, Howie Motions are Made, and Seven and a Half Lessons on
0:47.1	the Brain.
0:48.4	So join us for a conversation about family life through the lens of neuroscience.
0:53.3	We'll be right back with Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
0:57.8	Welcome back to Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
1:13.2	I'm Kelly Corrigan.
1:14.2	I first had the opportunity to interview Lisa Feldman-Barritt, my neuroscientist friend
1:19.2	from Northeastern, for my PBS show, Tell Me More.
1:23.4	Lisa is one of the top 1% of most cited scientists in the world for the revolutionary research
1:32.2	in psychology and neuroscience that she's been doing in her lab in Boston.
1:38.1	So to prepare, I did a deep dive into her work and was particularly drawn to a book called
1:43.2	Howie Motions Are Made.
1:45.9	As the mother of two college kids, emotions are high in my house, and I would like to take
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