On Thursday evening, AEI’s Brent Orrell hosted psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist and renowned comedian John Cleese for a screening of Dr. McGilchrist’s new documentary, “The Divided Brain.” Based on Dr.

This video refers to a film screening that has been cut from this recording. “The Divided Brain” is a groundbreaking new documentary based on the work of British psychiatrist and literary expert Iain ...

The moment a person steps off the street and into a restaurant - to take just one example - the brain mentally starts a new "chapter" of the day, a change that causes a big shift in brain activity.

Mindset and expectations, not just the external environment, shape the 'table of contents' into which our brains organize the day. The moment a person steps off the street and into a restaurant -- to ...

In Nobel Prize research beginning in the 1960s, Roger W. Sperry and colleagues studied the effects of cutting the forebrain commissures in patients as a radical treatment for intractable epilepsy.

If you search for "left brain vs. right brain" on YouTube, it's not long before you'll find yourself in a vortex of weird claims and outlandish hype. For decades, pop psychology books and web videos ...

Conventionally, mental conflict has been regarded as at best undesirable, and at worst, pathological. For Freudians, it was the cause and occasion for repression, and for twentieth-century folk ...

The moment a person steps off the street and into a restaurant—to take just one example—the brain mentally starts a new “chapter” of the day, a change that causes a big shift in brain activity. Shifts ...

If you search for "left brain vs. right brain" on YouTube, it's not long before you'll find yourself in a vortex of weird claims and outlandish hype. For decades, pop psychology books and web videos ...