Are You Out of Your Mind with Neil deGrasse Tyson

The brain’s 100 billion neurons speak to each other by chemical and electrical signaling, and this complicated communication provides us with everything we know and defines who we are. But when it is led astray, we can end up with false memories, hallucinations, and many other misunderstandings of the world around us. Learn about the role of the hippocampus in memory, the effects of LSD on the brain, the possible medical uses of LSD and other psychotropic drugs, and what a 19th century railroad worker named Phineas Gage can teach us about traumatic brain injuries.

Episode: Season 2, Episode 15 – Are You Out of Your Mind

Air date: 28 March 2011

Co-host: Chuck Nice: comedian

Guests: Oliver Sacks: neurologist and author, Cara Santa Maria: science educator

Running Time: 42 minutes

ISBN: Digital Download 978-1-61544-918-7