On Thursday evening, AEI’s Brent Orrell hosted psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist and renowned comedian John Cleese for a screening of Dr. McGilchrist’s new documentary, “The Divided Brain.” Based on Dr.

This video refers to a film screening that has been cut from this recording. “The Divided Brain” is a groundbreaking new documentary based on the work of British psychiatrist and literary expert Iain ...

The moment a person steps off the street and into a restaurant - to take just one example - the brain mentally starts a new "chapter" of the day, a change that causes a big shift in brain activity.

Mindset and expectations, not just the external environment, shape the 'table of contents' into which our brains organize the day. The moment a person steps off the street and into a restaurant -- to ...

In Nobel Prize research beginning in the 1960s, Roger W. Sperry and colleagues studied the effects of cutting the forebrain commissures in patients as a radical treatment for intractable epilepsy.

If you search for "left brain vs. right brain" on YouTube, it's not long before you'll find yourself in a vortex of weird claims and outlandish hype. For decades, pop psychology books and web videos ...

The moment a person steps off the street and into a restaurant—to take just one example—the brain mentally starts a new “chapter” of the day, a change that causes a big shift in brain activity. Shifts ...

If you search for "left brain vs. right brain" on YouTube, it's not long before you'll find yourself in a vortex of weird claims and outlandish hype. For decades, pop psychology books and web videos ...