The Ecstasy of an Open Brain

One spring evening in 2024, a science journalist named Rachel Gross bombed at karaoke. The culprit was a bleed in a fist-sized clump of neurons tucked down in the back of her brain called the cerebellum. A couple weeks later, her doctors took a bit of it out, assuring her it was ...  Show more

Most of us spend some part of our lives feeling bad about ourselves and wanting to feel better. But this preoccupation is a surprisingly new one in the history of the world, and can largely be traced back to one man: a rumpled, convertible-driving California state representative ...  Show more

Neuroplasticity takes center stage as Lisa Wimberger shares with us in this transformative episode on rewiring the brain for resilience. Lisa, founder of the Neurosculpting Institute, shares her remarkable journey of overcoming vasovagal seizures through a meditation-based practi ...  Show more

WIRED FOR WHY: How We Think, Feel and Make Meaning. (Self-Published 2025) spans eighteen chapters exploring everything from how we manage to stay alive against all odds, to why language separates us from other species, to whether death might be a metaphor. It's a journey through ...  Show more

This podcast episode is all about the brain because the guest is master clinician, certified neuropsychiatrist, and brain scientist, Dr. David Feifel.

Feifel founded the Kadima Neuropsychiatry Institute in San Diego ...

In a hauntingly innovative exhibit, brain cells grown from the late composer Alvin Lucier’s blood generate sound. Set in a museum in Perth, Australia, the installation blurs the line between art and neuroscience. Host Rachel Feltman and associate editor Allison Parshall explore t ...  Show more