Episodes
Yale's John Dovidio finds that people tolerate racism more than they say they will.
Published 01/13/09
Ralph DiLeone discusses how our brains can make losing weight very difficult.
Published 11/18/08
Published 11/18/08
John A Bargh discusses research into origins of interpersonal warmth from a Yale study in which Yale researchers find touching a warm beverage leads to warm feelings towards others.
Published 10/24/08
We spend fewer hours sleeping than our ancestors. Drs. Tamas Horvath and Xiao-Bing Gao, professors in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences explore health problems linked to lack of sleep, such as obesity.
Published 06/06/08
Dr. Roy Baumeister discusses self-control, the factors that deplete it, and the ways we can increase it.
Published 06/03/08
Teenagers are hard wired to experiment and seek out excitement. Dr. Linda Mayes discusses the state of the science on adolescent brain development and ways that adults can encourage good decision making.
Published 06/03/08
Gerard Sanacora, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry and director of the Yale Depression Program, studies how the neurotransmitter systems in the brain contribute to depression and other mood disorders.
Published 04/03/08
Rajita Sinha, professor of psychiatry and director of the Yale School of Medicine consortium on stress and addiction, explains how stress puts people at risk for addiction.
Published 03/04/08
John Krystal, M.D., the Robert L. McNeil Jr. Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, explains current research on alcohol dependence. Dr. Krystal leads a major effort at Yale to help turn research findings about alcoholism into treatment for patients.
Published 02/29/08
Leslie Jacobsen, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry, explains how exposure to nicotine in the womb, or in the teen years, is associated with neurological changes—none of them for the better.
Published 02/14/08
Laurie Santos, associate professor of psychology, talks about her research testing fundamental economic principles in laboratory capuchin monkeys.
Published 11/15/07
Andy Morgan, M.D., associate clinical professor of psychiatry, talks about his research with the military examining why some soldiers thrive under extremely adverse circumstances.
Published 10/24/07