The Resilient Brain

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To The Best Of Our Knowledge is a nationally-syndicated, Peabody award-winning public radio show that dives headlong into the deeper end of ideas.

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New experiences actually rewire the brain. So after all we’ve
been through this year, you have to wonder — are we different? We
consider the "COVID brain" from the perspective of both
neuroscience and the arts. Also, we go to Cavendish, Vermont to
hear the remarkable story of Phineas Gage, the railroad worker
whose traumatic brain injury changed the history of neuroscience.

Original Air Date: October 10, 2020

Guests:

Margo Caulfield — David Eagleman — llan Stavans

Interviews In This Hour:

How Phineas Gage's Freak Accident Changed Brain Science — 'COVID
Brain' and the New Frontiers of Neuroplasticity — The Pandemic
and the Poets