Top Neuroscientist: Anxiety Is A Predictive Error In The Brain! Your Brain Is Faking Trauma! Your Whole Life Might Be A Prediction!

<p>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.</p>
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<p>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’.</p>
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<p>She explains:</p>
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<p>Why anxiety is a predictive error, not a signal of fear</p>
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<p>The shocking truth about childhood trauma and memory distortion</p>
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<p>How trauma can be socially contagious and spread between people</p>
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<p>Why you do not actually have full free will over your decisions</p>
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<p>How your brain constantly builds your emotional reality</p>
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<p>00:00 Intro  </p>
<p>02:22 Lisa's Mission  </p>
<p>04:14 Why Is It Important to Understand How the Brain Works?  </p>
<p>10:48 Measuring Emotions  </p>
<p>13:55 What Is the Predictive Brain?  </p>
<p>16:08 Examples of the Brain Making Predictions  </p>
<p>24:13 Is the Predictive Brain at the Root of Trauma?  </p>
<p>31:27 Cultural Inheritance, Trauma, Anxiety, and Depression  </p>
<p>36:29 How Reframing Past Events Can Change Identity  </p>
<p>42:41 Meaning as a Consequence of Action  </p>
<p>44:11 How to Overcome Fear by Taking Action  </p>
<p>45:43 Prediction Error  </p>
<p>47:37 Learning Through Exposure  </p>
<p>49:47 Dangers of Social Contagion  </p>
<p>54:06 Anxiety in the Context of Social Contagion  </p>
<p>58:33 Is Social Media Programming Us to Be Sad?  </p>
<p>1:02:08 Ads  </p>
<p>1:03:03 First Step to Overcoming Mental Health Issues  </p>
<p>1:05:18 Chronic Pain  </p>
<p>1:08:23 What Is Depression?  </p>
<p>1:09:17 Body Budgeting and Body Bankruptcy  </p>
<p>1:12:26 How Stress Contributes to Weight Gain  </p>
<p>1:15:00 Depression in Adolescents  </p>
<p>1:17:02 Is Depression a Chemical Imbalance?  </p>
<p>1:18:30 The Story of Lisa's Daughter  </p>
<p>1:21:09 Oral Birth Control as a Risk Factor for Depression  </p>
<p>1:24:07 How Lisa Helped Her Daughter Overcome Depression  </p>
<p>1:29:11 Social Support  </p>
<p>1:35:26 Lisa's Daughter's Recovery from Depression  </p>
<p>1:39:12 Does Alcohol Affect the Body Budget and Increase Depression Risk?  </p>
<p>1:42:45 Ads  </p>
<p>1:44:00 Can People Change Emotions by Smiling?  </p>
<p>1:45:49 Lisa's Perspective on ADHD  </p>
<p>1:48:01 The Power of Words to Facilitate Emotion  </p>
<p>1:52:26 Stress as a Burden to the Metabolic Budget  </p>
<p>1:53:27 Lisa's View on God and Religion  </p>
<p>1:54:25 What Is the Meaning of Life in Lisa's Opinion?  </p>
<p>1:59:32 Question from the Previous Guest  </p>
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