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Top Neuroscientist: Anxiety Is A Predictive Error In The Brain! Heres The Proof Your Brain Is Faking Trauma! Your Whole Life Might Be A Prediction!
What if your anxiety isn’t fear, and your trauma might not be real? Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett reveals how your brain creates emotional illusions.
Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett is a Professor of Psychology and one of the top 0.1% most cited scientists in the world for her groundbreaking research in psychology and neuroscience. She is also the author of bestselling books including ‘Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain’.
She explains:
- Why anxiety is a predictive error, not a signal of fear
- The shocking truth about childhood trauma and memory distortion
- How trauma can be socially contagious and spread between people
- Why you do not actually have full free will over your decisions
- How your brain constantly builds your emotional reality
00:00 Intro
02:22 Lisa's Mission
04:14 Why Is It Important to Understand How the Brain Works?
10:48 Measuring Emotions
13:55 What Is the Predictive Brain?
16:08 Examples of the Brain Making Predictions
24:13 Is the Predictive Brain at the Root of Trauma?
31:27 Cultural Inheritance, Trauma, Anxiety, and Depression
36:29 How Reframing Past Events Can Change Identity
42:41 Meaning as a Consequence of Action
44:11 How to Overcome Fear by Taking Action
45:43 Prediction Error
47:37 Learning Through Exposure
49:47 Dangers of Social Contagion
54:06 Anxiety in the Context of Social Contagion
58:33 Is Social Media Programming Us to Be Sad?
1:02:08 Ads
1:03:03 First Step to Overcoming Mental Health Issues
1:05:18 Chronic Pain
1:08:23 What Is Depression?
1:09:17 Body Budgeting and Body Bankruptcy
1:12:26 How Stress Contributes to Weight Gain
1:15:00 Depression in Adolescents
1:17:02 Is Depression a Chemical Imbalance?
1:18:30 The Story of Lisa's Daughter
1:21:09 Oral Birth Control as a Risk Factor for Depression
1:24:07 How Lisa Helped Her Daughter Overcome Depression
1:29:11 Social Support
1:35:26 Lisa's Daughter's Recovery from Depression
1:39:12 Does Alcohol Affect the Body Budget and Increase Depression Risk?
1:42:45 Ads
1:44:00 Can People Change Emotions by Smiling?
1:45:49 Lisa's Perspective on ADHD
1:48:01 The Power of Words to Facilitate Emotion
1:52:26 Stress as a Burden to the Metabolic Budget
1:53:27 Lisa's View on God and Religion
1:54:25 What Is the Meaning of Life in Lisa's Opinion?
1:59:32 Question from the Previous Guest
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