A maker revolution in health care
MakerNurse co-founder Anna Young describes how she is bringing rapid prototyping tools into hospital units to enhance the natural, do-it-yourself problem solving abilities of nurses who innovate to …
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The science of psilocybin and its use to relieve suffering
Leading psychopharmacologist Roland Griffiths discloses the ways that psychedelic drugs can be used to create spiritually meaningful, personally transformative experiences for all patients, especially the terminally ill.
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 …
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.