The Gates of Plasticity

Love Letters

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4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Meredith sits down with Dr. Steven Hyman – a brain expert at The Broad Institute – for a talk about the meaning of change … and whether it’s actually possible. Are people capable of change – in life and relationships? If so, how? Dr. Hyman explains the plastic brain, how it works, how eating a great sandwich in Chicago can be the best thing ever, and why Meredith once thought she looked like Reese Witherspoon. We also catch up with a very special Love Letters couple. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.0	Through her discoveries, we are transported back to 1971 to witness two remarkable women embark on a romance that defies all conventions.
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1:03.7	Months ago, I was in the lobby of the Broad Institute in Cambridge.
1:09.7	That's where scientists affiliated with both Harvard and MIT do research, make discoveries,
1:12.3	and think about the future of our health.
1:18.0	Our podcast producer, Christine and I were there to talk to a brain expert for this season.
1:23.0	Our interview with said brain expert was very insightful, and we will get to that.
1:28.3	But as we waited in the lobby to talk to this expert, something very Boston happened.
1:29.7	You're from love letters.
1:32.0	Do you recognize me?
1:33.1	A little bit.
1:33.5	Yeah.
1:36.7	Allison Lee, my husband and I, date. Oh, my God.
1:38.5	This woman approached me in the lobby.
1:40.7	Her name is Allison.
1:42.5	She's a scientist who does drug discovery for C.DOT, which is the
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