The Addictions of Our Lives with Dr. Howard J. Rankin, PhD
The Brain Health Revolution Podcast
Dean and Ayesha Sherzai
4.8 • 604 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Our guest for this episode is Dr. Howard Rankin, who has has extensive expertise and knowledge in the areas of psychology, neuroscience, behavior change and neurotechnology. He has worked extensively in the addictions space, running both inpatient and outpatient programs. Along with a career in academics and research, he is also an experienced speaker, coach and best-selling and award-winning author. Dr. Rankin has written 12 books in his own name, co-written another 12, and ghostwritten 30 others, all nonfiction. Howard has also published more than 30 scientific articles on addiction and behavior change, and been a consultant to the NIH and WHO. His latest books include I Think Therefore I Am Wrong: A Guide to Bias, Political Correctness, Fake News and the Future of Mankind which explores the default setting of the mind and how that can lead us astray, Falling to Grace: The Art and Science of Redemption was released on April 15, 2022 and was featured in Psychology Today magazine (May 2022 issue). Dr. Rankin is also a Psychology Today blogger, the creator and host of the How Not To Think podcast and a consultant to Sapien Labs and Science Director at IntualityAI.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brain Health Revolution podcast with your hosts, Aisha and Dean Sharesai. |
| 0:11.0 | In this episode, we sat down with our dear friend Dr. Howard Rankin and had a conversation about addiction. |
| 0:18.0 | Dr. Rankin has extensive expertise and knowledge in the area of psychology, |
| 0:23.6 | neuroscience, behavior change, and neurotechnology. He has worked extensively in the addiction space, |
| 0:30.6 | running both inpatient and outpatient programs. Along with a career in academics and research, |
| 0:36.6 | he is also an experienced speaker, |
| 0:39.3 | coach, and bestselling and award-winning author. Dr. Rankin has written 12 books in his own name, |
| 0:46.1 | co-written another 12, and ghostwritten 30 others, all nonfiction. He has also published |
| 0:52.7 | more than 30 scientific articles on addiction and behavior |
| 0:55.9 | change and has been a consultant to the National Institutes of Health and World Health Organization. |
| 1:03.3 | His latest books include, I Think Therefore I Am Wrong, a guide to bias, political correctness, |
| 1:10.4 | Fake News and the future of mankind, |
| 1:13.1 | which explores the default setting of the mind and how that can lead us astray. |
| 1:18.4 | Dr. Rankin is also a Psychology Today blogger, the creator and host of the How Not to Think podcast, |
| 1:25.8 | and a consultant to Sapien Labs and science director at Intuality |
| 1:31.1 | AI. |
| 1:32.1 | I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did. |
| 1:35.6 | But before we jump into the episode, I wanted to let you know about Neuro Academy. |
| 1:40.5 | Neuroacademy is a membership-based online environment where you'll have access to resources to achieve optimal brain health, a better, sharper memory, and prevent cognitive decline. |
| 1:51.0 | The platform provides the opportunity to connect with us and an empowering community and participate in weekly live Q&A sessions, live cooking sessions, live podcasts, and Q&A |
| 2:02.5 | with remarkable help leaders, have access to on-demand courses on prevention of neurological |
| 2:08.3 | diseases, expanding the course to evidence-based nutrition and cooking, anxiety, and many others |
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