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Inside the Brain: Neurosurgery, Behavior, and Consciousness

The Michael Shermer Show # 471 Dr. Theodore Schwartz is a Professor of Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery at Weill Cornell Medicine, one of the busiest and highest-ranked neurosurgery centers in the world. He has published over five hundred scientific articles and chapters on neurosurgery, and has lectured around the world—from Bogotá to Vienna to Mumbai—on new, minimally invasive surgical techniques that he helped develop. He also runs a basic science laboratory devoted to epilepsy research. He studied philosophy and literature at Harvard. His new book is: Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery. On this episode, Shermer and Schwartz discuss: • How does anesthesia work and where does consciousness go? • Brain mapping • Brain injuries, tumors, and how to treat them • Strokes and aneurysms • Cell phones and brain tumors • Famous medical cases: John McCain, Muhammad Ali, Ted Kennedy, Joe Biden • Memory loss, dementia, senility, Alzheimer’s, etc. • Frontal lobotomies: 1935-1955 over 60,000 were performed • The neuroscience of violence and aggression • Free will and determinism • Neuralink and the future of computer-brain interface technology SUPPORT THE PODCAST If you enjoy the podcast, please show your support by making a $5 or $10 monthly donation. https://www.skeptic.com/donate/ #michaelshermer #skeptic Listen to The Michael Shermer Show or subscribe directly on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Amazon Music. https://www.skeptic.com/michael-sherm...