Where the Brain and Mind Meet (Karl Deisseroth, M.D., PhD)

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen

Elise Loehnen

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Karl Deisseroth is a psychiatrist, neuroscientist and bioengineering professor at Stanford. Karl is also the author of Projections: The New Science of Human Emotion, which is a beautiful revisitation and exploration of his time as a psychiatry resident, where he encountered all sorts of people who didn’t quite understand what was happening to their brains—and by extension their minds. In the book—and in our conversation today—Karl explores mania, autism spectrum disorder, eating disorders, borderline personality disorder, psychopathy, and dementia, all in gorgeous prose. Karl runs a lab at Stanford that focuses on optogenetics, mind-blowing science that can pinpoint where adaptive and maladaptive behaviors begin in the brain. He’s won the Kyoto Prize and Heineken Prize for his research, which is not surprising—it just might change the entire world of psychiatry. Today’s conversation is far-ranging and it’s also surprising, including a conversation about how some of these disorders—like eating disorders, which can be deadly, can also be strangely adaptive. Please stick with us. MORE FROM KARL DEISSEROTH, M.D., PhD: Projections: The New Science of Human Emotion Follow Karl Deisseroth on Twitter To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Elise Lunan, host of Pulling the Thread. Today, I'm joined by the brilliant psychiatrist and
0:06.8	neuroscientist Carl Dyseroth, author of Projections.
0:14.8	You know what that is? An ice cold beer. What's different?
0:23.2	It's Budweiser.
0:26.5	Food longer for a refreshing, smooth taste.
0:31.5	Like no other.
0:34.3	Cheers to that.
0:37.3	Budweiser, like no other.
0:38.7	Please drink responsibly.
0:40.8	For the facts, visit drinkaware.coma.uker.uker. UK.
0:55.6	On this show, we pull apart the web in which we... Hi, it's Elise Lunan, host of Pulling the Thread.
1:01.8	On this show, we pull apart the web in which we all live to understand who we are and why we're here.
1:04.7	Pulling the thread is about big questions.
1:11.1	Why we do what we do, how we can understand our own experiences within a larger spiritual and historical context,
1:15.9	the ways in which we might begin to understand ourselves and each other better, and what's required to heal ourselves and our world. I'll be joined in conversation by luminaries and wise
1:21.7	elders, those who have laid tracks in their work and lives to help us bring meaning and understanding
1:26.5	to a world that often feels chaotic and overwhelming.
1:30.3	My hope is that these conversations spark moments of resonance and plant tiny seeds of awareness
1:35.3	so that we might all collectively learn and grow.
1:39.3	What optogenetics does is it's an engine of discovery.
1:43.3	It helps us identify what matters, what's causing things to happen in the brain.
1:49.0	And we know now the cells and the connections make these powerful motivations and drives manifest.
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