Ep 48: Why do brains become depressed? | INNER COSMOS WITH DAVID EAGLEMAN
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Ep 48: Why do brains become depressed? | INNER COSMOS WITH DAVID EAGLEMAN
What is depression? Why are brains able to slip into it? Is depression detectable in animals? Do animals have options beyond fight or flight? And what does any of this have to do with measuring depression medications in city water supplies, reward pathways in the brain, the prevalence of tuberculosis, and zapping the head with magnetic stimulation? Join today's episode with David Eagleman and his guest -- psychiatrist Jonathan Downar -- for a deep dive into the brain science behind depression and what new solutions are on the horizon.
Original Air Date: February 26, 2024
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Neuroscientist and author David Eagleman discusses how our brain interprets the world and what that means for us. Through storytelling, research, interviews, and experiments, David Eagleman tackles wild questions that illuminate new facets of our lives and our realities.
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What an outstanding lecture. My wife suffered from Clinical Depression. She remained on Prozac until her death from metastatic breast cancer that went to her brain's left motor strip. What I found fascinating was during the nine years her "battled" the cancer, she became an outspoken political activist for Universal Health Care. During those nine years fighting cancer, she never suffered from a bout of depression but boldly addressed both her cancer and the USA's complex medical system to change. The cancer in her brain seemed to motivate Paula to a higher degree of positive functioning than anything else. It was very interesting to me and why I delved so deeply into neurobiology of human behavior in 2014. Thank you for this profound insight into Depression. I also referred back to the 2024 2nd Edition of Brain and Behavior by Eagleman and Downar. I highly recommend the book.
I started crying at 2:30 with ..hopeless, worthless, helpless..
Well as one that suffers, this episode really touched a tender spot. I am very familiar with the "instant" depression. I often describe it as a wave washing over me or like window blinds being closed. It really is that quick. And most often, but not always, I am unaware of what triggered it. Fortunately my depressive episodes are not often and they are short lived. But early on they were long episodes, i.e. months and years. The last long episode was about a decade and was EXTREMELY dark. I ruminated on suicide constantly. At least every few minutes or so I would put a finger gun to my head and enact blowing my head off. Ironically my real choice of suicide, which I prepared, was hanging. I had a noose already prepared in my garage. And the really strange thing about is that is exactly how my older brother killed himself. I had lots of nightmares about that.
Anyway, I do much better now and always tell people to take care of their mental/emotional health. Our society still has a long way to go of accepting mental health issues without judgment and to insist that insurance pay for the care.
I have no words to express how grateful I am that you are making these episodes and putting it all out there for everyone. This episode in particular. Thank you.
I first learned of David's Brain series in a social psych course. I have no idea why he is not more known here. Amazing stuff. I am looking for the series that he describes the flight or fight responce and basically a truama brain responce. Guess I have to watch them all again! I tell as many people as possible who like to learn!
Great, fantastic episode, professor Eagleman. Spreading knowledge is already a giant step in creating better society conditions, in the sense you talked about tuberculosis and rates that drop. Hopefully it will happen with depression in a few decades. What to say? Thank you a thousand times🙏😊
One of your best episodes. Your felicitous use of metaphors to explain complex topics makes them easier to understand.
Excellent. Very important
I struggled with drug resistant depression for all of my life. I reached a crisis point about a year ago and told my doctor that I really could not go on like this. She put me on a ketamine program that eliminated my depression instantly. It was shocking. it definitely has some downsides, for one I don’t enjoy feeling “high“ and it has to be done every week. But my depression is completely gone and I’m trying to learn how to live a life without it. It’s the strangest thing to have had this unbearable weight on top of me my whole life, and I have it suddenly gone. It’s like learning to live all over again. I would love to hear your thoughts on this new treatment.
It was very educational as usual, thank you
This is the first time that I'm hearing about depression being addressed as a brain illness. Thank you! This new point of view gives me additional tools I can use to look at this and cope with mild depression. I need to treat my brain better and feed it with behaviors that are good for it.
Could you please put a reference to the research done to clinically depressed patients where they implanted electrodes in their brain and created a feed back loop using machine learning?
What exactly happens in the brain when it reaches a state of understanding? Help me if you are expert on it .What are the causes and influences that contribute to our understanding of something? Chronological Video needed
It's disgusting how few subscriptions this fascinating channel has.
Me and many members of my family suffer of depression. I have mixed fellings about this episode. I don't know when this treatments will get to be available in my country or if would be affordable for us.
I going through a hard episode and I feel terrible and with zero enthusiasm for the future.
Amazing point in the last part.
Hey David ! I am 17 and very curious on understanding the science behind learning any thing .. how we actually learn and the best strategies for learning something !
The best way to learn something is to teach it to someone else.
The background music is very distracting - for me anyway.
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