Unmasking the invisible wounds of war
Creative arts therapist Melissa Walker describes how she creates a haven where military service members recovering from traumatic brain injury and mental illness can safely unmask their invisible …
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Using improv to improve life with Alzheimer’s
Improv artists Karen Stobbe and Mondy Carter share how they use the rules of improvisation to break through conventional caregiving techniques and open up new worlds for persons …
A simple way to break a bad habit
Psychiatrist and addiction expert Judson Brewer shares groundbreaking research on the mechanism of mindfulness practices that effectively help quell cravings of all kinds.
The positive effects of positive emotions
Positive psychology researcher Jennifer Stellar illuminates how truly awe-inspiring experiences may mean more than we realize for our physical and mental health.
Seeking wisdom in graying matter
Geriatric psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dilip Jeste reveals how our brains compensate for physical aging and discusses an unexpected evolutionary advantage to growing old–gaining sage wisdom–which holds great promise …
Reinventing our scientific future
Innovation expert and physician-researcher Roberta Ness will impart her wisdom about combatting science’s creativity crisis and sparking the type of revolutionary innovations that science and medicine so desperately …
Foresight in hindsight: Blindly facing the future
Mezzo-soprano Laurie Rubin gives an emotional performance that makes us feel capable of breaking through our fears and achieving our dreams. She is accompanied by her wife, Jenny …
How electricity could replace your medications
Neurosurgeon and immunologist Kevin Tracey shares the frontiers of a new, hybrid field – bioelectronic medicine.
How entrepreneurship can amplify scientific impact
Scientific Director of the Thiel Foundation and Breakout Labs Hemai Parthasarathy shares what goes on behind the scenes of cultivating a scientist-entrepreneur and providing them with the tools …
Prioritizing reproducibility for scientific advancement
Founder of Science Exchange Elizabeth Iorns identifies an integral missing piece in the research workflow and explains the cultural underpinnings of why it is so often shunned by …