Where do genetics fit in?

Regarding empathy, those without it may have not been treated empathically as infants when the brain is formng.

It would be interesting to know if people who cannot recognize of imagine faces if they were exposed to their mother’s faces as infants or had a trauma at that age.

Be careful though! There is study that was done on kids and teenagers with meditation. And those " mindful meditations " fostered indifference in the young people.

I keep thinking this is Joel Osteen and passing the video.

“Silent lucidity”

How would you teach a mind to remove an addiction? I would love to remove my smoking habits!

How would you teach a mind to remove an addiction? I would love to remove my smoking habits!

HSAM: Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory... I don't have it, so had to look it up... like a chump 😒

Brains don t get depressed 😂 (I m not sure if I have seen a brain, alive, whithout a body) But incredibly some people do

Love her, just fascinating!

love this, but the background music in the interview is cheesy

Excellent & most informative. Though one should not lose sight of psychosocial factors in the etiology & management of depression

What about in the UK?! I've had depression since I was in my teens and I'm 49yrs and I've been made to take over 30 medications of every category because nothing worked! And then with every new Dr I have to retry a medication I have already tried but the records don't say why I was taken off it?! Well, I found out last week! I suddenly started itching like crazy from my head to toes! I now a week later have cuts n scabs everywhere from my scratching! I knew immediately what it was and I was in the middle of tapering up on to the new med and I stopped it immediately, took a couple antihistamines, and every itch cream I have! After I wrote my consultant an email through his secretary, I was called back by my "care co" (social worker or nurse) and told to not change the medication and to keep taking it as normal! I refused and asked for an appointment to speak to my consultant and I'm not even sure what he said?! I also have developed chronic pain which restricts me doing most things on top of the depression! I'm now agoraphobic and cannot wake at "normal times" which causes me great anxiety because I have been chastised for this all my life! My gp lives to restrict my medication that I have been taking for years that actually help without consulting one of the other 6 Dr's in the surgery as to what they did last! I feel that my whole life has been a waste of a life! I wanted to be in the arts and here I am, overweight, middle aged, getting yelled at by slips of kids who have passed some sort of medical or social worker degree, threatening to put me in to assisted living because I struggle to do the dishes or sort the laundry. My mum died 13yrs ago. My dad is in his 80s and is slowly going senile and aggressive with just me and his wife it seems?! And my brother is drinking again, narcissist and compulsive liar! Nobody cares and they actively avoid! I was well once when I was given a maoi, within a week I started volunteering and going to yoga and going dancing, meeting lots of people! And all everyone could say about me was that I was so nice and fun to be around... 2yrs later that train that began as the orient express reved up for the last six months as I felt myself suddenly feeling super angry with everyone and everything until finally I just broke, lost all my friends, got in a fight with a 19 Yr old boy for touching me and did it again when I told him to stop! Then met someone I loved deeply, only to find out that I wasn't the only one. He used me as a companion in lock down, but broke up with me during and was actively fighting an addiction! Then another thing and another thing until, I physically couldn't move anymore and became deficient of vit d vit b I was anemic and exhausted! That ended in Jan 24. And I have been trying to get back up an walk up the hill this time, no train! Until I am sitting here drinking coffee to stay awake because I haven't slept for 2 days and I'm trying to resent the body clock! Then I hear about all these successful none invasive treatments in America and all the happy people! I don't have the money to bring myself there or pay for the treatment and I feel cheated by the NHS mental health system! Because the next offer for me will be ECT. Which will further damage my brain, I'll be a happy idiot, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, lobotomised! Maybe some kind Indian will put a pillow over *my* face and finally put *me* out of my misery eh Doc!

Would my behavior have anything to do with it?

I’ve had a dream about a person and at the time of my dreams I had never met them but end up a year later meet them . I didn’t talk to them so I just seen them , thought it would be weird .

My great great great grandpa never saw a tv while he was alive and all of his dreams were audio only but it was before electricity wasn't invented yet so there weren't radios and he said nobody ever dreamed before electricity was invented or if they did it was either about a donkey or a rock.

I was very depressed for 30 adult years. I met my wife and the depression lifted. Was I lonely or depressed?

You are smart but your analogy needs work.

Prozac is poison. It made me suicidal and aggressive.

I absolutely DO dream about using software. I often dream of very specific solutions to problems I am trying to solve with that software. I also often "dream up" musical compositions or visual designs... so I'm not sure about the "executive centre shutting down". This would also imply, by extention, that the idea that dreams are merely Rorschach patterns which our waking minds interpret, can't be entirely correct... or not at least for everyone.

Is it dangerous to keep digging into neural science?? I feel a moment would come when we will regret uncover and resolve the mysteries of the mind and conscious … once we resolve the code of consciousness we will surely and enviably regret it as it will unravel truths that we will surely regret. Our beliefs, our feelings, our thoughts, our actions, decisions, our individuality, it is very inevitable. 🫤 😒

If it was hard for her to stand out at home she must have a heck of a good looking family because I remember her from Taxi. Wow.

Dr. E soars!😊

10:34 The Safe-Simulation of normally traumatising activities Theory to explain why we have dreams sounds plausible until I think that although I awake relieved that body parts aren't missing physically, I can sometimes awake emotionally re-traumatised by my dreams. NOT safe at all!! I've even broke up with a great girlfriend after a dream and maybe on the receiving end of that a couple times, too. Not far from David Engleman's Wedding Dream he had he could swear happened in reality.

Dreams are time travel to parallel universes.

I occasionally dreamt of someone speaking a foreign language. Once while I checked the words after becoming awake, they turned to be nonsense. Since then when I approach someone speaking a “foreign language,” the speaker stops speaking.

Victims of stroke suffer depression-what would you suggest-my mom had a full ischemic stroke from which she recovered but is plagues with anxiety, depression, insecurity, and is more sensitive to criticism. Prior to the stroke, she never experienced depression or took any medication.

I’ve learned to control my dreams when they get too spooky or sleazy.

The suicide rates are not going down because antidepressants like SSRI's and SNRI's only works for less than 50% of patients. I was one of them (when my wife had 4th stage cancer), been through all types of antidepressants. What worked for me is TMS - Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, it's a life saver. I think TMS will affect the income of SSRI/SNRI Pharmaceuticals when it becomes a more affordable treatment. I believe they will do everything to discredit TMS.

OMG! I am so grateful for this lecture. This needs to be on broadcast tv. Knowing the functional explanation makes a huge difference for me. I am in a situation where there are several serious progressive illnesses developing for a close loved one. I am the caregiver. My attitude over this added a layer of despair. I see how critically important it is for me to use the control I DO have, so as not to slip into depression. Thank you so much. Life altering information.

What about bipolar. How does that work and how different are the remedies? I tried many different antidepressants based on a diagnosis of depression by psychiatrists and psychologists-SSRIs, lithium, etc., none of which did anything for me. Then I got diagnosed as bipolar by a nurse practitioner therapist and put on the bipolar medication Lamotrigine, and my life changed-no more low low low lows, and no more crazy highs.

I gave TOTAL aphantasia and complete alexathymia for yrs and yrs ive told people i feel nothing not excitment not goddy not sad not chills, nothing emotional at all! I feel completly dead. The worst part of aphantasia for me is not being able to remeber how people look, if i see my kids and turn around, i cant imagine their faces but i can totally find my kids in a crowed. Same with music i do get songs stuck in my head but its in my head voice never ever the original songs voice. I cant smell a lemon or taste a lemon or visualize a lemon or hear a lemon squeezing into a cup but i know what a lemon looks like and smells like at the time.

He hasn’t got a clue.

Depression is pure boredom!

Thank you for existing❤,

A radio that I so desperately wish I could change the channel

Not one mention of psychoplastogens?? Spravato etc and the breakthroughs in the neuropharmacology space???? The biggest take away is that this guy’s pocket only gets stimulated by brain stimulators 😂😂😂

I have long complicated technicolor dreams that steven speilberg would pay good money for.

interesting episode-it actually takes me back to my comment on the last episode (79) where i was complimenting the "face to face" format because it "puts a visual time stamp on the audio track" for recall. i refrained from further commenting at the time that this is how i study something i want to know/recall; learned a while back just from doing it one day that i need to transcribe it-the visual and physical act of writing/drawing notes creates eidetic memories. p.s. what i wonder as a tangent is: do people with "super" memory, of some kind, experience any form of dementia? or is the probability significantly lower? or more abstractly, does having/maintaining superior memory skills fight off forms of dementia?-if you are born with a genetic "super" memory what is the likely hood of developing some form of dementia as a senior? (as opposed to developing super memory and the likely hood of developing some form of dementia as a senior?)

Outstanding interview and lecture. So well done by both with amazing credentials. Thank u for this

You don't know my conscious that's it in a nutshell 🤣 God knows he is in control, and sometimes I take the real and try to steer the wrong direction sometimes that wheel has a lot of play on it that all of the sudden I'll back on track.

I have read that a structure in the brain has been identified as part of the memory process. The larger that this structure is, the better a memory that person has. Although rare, I have heard of others like this.

David, I’ve wanted to share an observation with you for a long time. Curious if this is common. I don’t usually remember dreams in the morning, but, as I’m dropping into sleep, if I relax and think of something like a car, or a place, etc., i begin to see short memories of dreams I had not remembered before, like an index to all dreams I’ve had on that subject. I believe my mind has stored memory of every dream I’ve ever had, and it’s like I have an index to them by subject, place or person! Tricky to hold the balance between sleep and awake, but delightful experience. Makes me think everyone has full memory of all dreams, but no index to the data! Explain or respond, please!

In dream land it’s parasympathetic lucid and unconscious subconscious memory based or shadow self. Its the suppressed part within that appears mostly in dreams its not false memory. It stems from fear of messing up . Means you afraid of yourself internally and made sure never happen. However the embedded program imprints a shadow of that pattern. Its the opposite man from the matrix if we suppressed the inner feelings. Schizo is only a state between dream and matrix three d thinking mind. Schizo is an immature state . In schizo state there is still ego identity. In dream state ego identity is almosg crashed depending on the depth. In delta its mostly m disappeared. The human present identity is a forced identity not the identity ( non identity) at birth. We born as an empty slate sunya or zero or emptiness. Then consciousness so subconscious state and then by the age 10-18 we have installed mind successfully. However they are never native per se. Schizophrenic state hasnt developed ego nor five senses clearly so consciousness ( individual consciousness) also affected however awareness ( native) would be empty and the same . They need actual reset not restore since their home platform is fragile so the mind too. Asyndesis! The dream land has many states that are mostly equivalent to the developmental childhood phase where the subconscious was developing 2-8 years. Dreams reflect our childhood thinking and its the inner child that unhealed and the man outside doesnt know he has an inner child and ignore its signals via dreams and unconscious responses or even intuitions . Meet Carl Jung!

by combining intense emotional coding with a detailed and automatic organization of memories, it creates an extremely efficient and long-lasting access system. The reason for this may lie in the way these people's brains process and structure lived experiences: emotionally significant memories are stored with more synapses associated with peripheral details (dates, places, dialogues), reinforcing retention and accessibility. This hyperconnectivity can be genetically influenced and enhanced by specific mental habits, creating a robust "brain archive", where each memory is easily retrieved due to its multiple neural connections.

Watching this makes me wonder if that brain stimulator might help people who suffer from addiction?

I lucid dream every night

My reality is different from that of most other people. I find it difficult to learn by rote - everything needs to be in context. When I think about anything, it always has its place in the bigger picture, and has uncertainty associated with it. There is very little which I believe without reservation.

Stupid people depress me. Many people are afraid to think, and try to impose their beliefs.