Toilet paper hoarding. Obsessive cleaning. News bingeing. Sometimes panic can be as contagious as a virus. Life Kit host Shereen Marisol Meraji spoke with Dr. Jud about what’s going on in the brain when we’re anxious, how to get our “thinking brains” back online, and how not doing anything can actually be helpful to those around us. … Read more
With the Coronavirus pandemic bringing the world to a halt; on this special edition of Impact Theory, Tom interviews Behavioral Neuroscientist Jud Brewer on how to keep your cool in hectic times such as these. Listen to the podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, or online here.
In this episode, Dr. Jud explains how our minds and brains work, why there is so much anxiety now, and how social contagion spreads. He describes what people can do to interrupt their pattern of anxiety and offers helpful strategies to improve mental and emotional well-being during times of uncertainty. Listen to the podcast … Read more
Dr. Jud describes anxiety as a form of uncertainty. How do we bring some certainty to our lives when our world feels out of control? Dr. Jud says that becoming aware of our physiological needs—are we hungry, thirsty, tired?—can help us feel more secure. Being conscious about how we consume news can also help. Grounding … Read more
As the world goes into lockdown to help manage the global pandemic of Coronavirus, many people are feeling anxious. This conversation has been recorded to help people deal with the anxiety that they are currently experiencing. Many people feel scared and helpless, which is completely understandable. In this episode, Dr. Jud will help you understand … Read more
In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Dr. Jud about addiction, craving, and mindfulness. They discuss the nature of reward-based learning, the role of subjective bias in addiction, the neuroscience of craving, the neural correlates of the sense of self, real-time neuroimaging, effort and effortlessness in meditation, smoking cessation through … Read more
The craving nature of our minds shows up every day, feeding a variety of addictive habits – from substance use to social media. These habits, in turn, not only impair our daily functioning but prevent us from embodying the best version of ourselves. We begin to feel hopeless as we discover that our will … Read more
In this sprawling, strange, and mind-bending episode, Dr. Jud, a neuroscientist and addiction psychiatrist, discusses the biological origins of our anxiety and negative habits and how we can change them using new techniques derived from his lab. From mindfulness to meditation to psychedelics to why we get stuck browsing the Netflix menu until we run … Read more
Listen to Dr. Jud on the Dr. Drew podcast sharing about the art and science of behavioral change grounded in science. Listen to the podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, or online here.
We’re all addicts, according to Dr. Jud. Consider our everyday habits—scrolling through Instagram, stress-eating, sugar, more sugar. Our habits, Dr. Jud says, run our lives. And we get fooled into thinking we need just a little more willpower to make a change, quit smoking, drop an addiction. But willpower is finite and often not enough. … Read more