A Rebroadcast of Charlie Rose Brain Series Episode Eight (Originally aired 05/26/10)

with Joseph Ledoux, Antonio Damasio, Eric Kandel, Kerry Ressler and David Anderson

on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 * * * * *

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A Rebroadcast of Charlie Rose Brain Series Episode Eight (Originally aired 05/26/10) a discussion of fear and anxiety with Antonio Damasio of University of Southern California, Kerry Ressler of Emory University, Joseph LeDoux of New York University, David Anderson of CalTech, and Eric Kandel of Columbia University

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    1. NeilMacCallister  09/06/2010 09:53 PM Report

      Yes, rob, ..they're happy, they're content, they're exhilarated.

      They're tenured, ..they are guarantied silk ties for the rest of their lives.

      You're right, ..you and I (and most of America) are not even close.

    2. robdverity  09/04/2010 03:21 PM Report

      Neil - would you buy, "a sense of fun?" Bow ties are themselves a go-to-hell statement; a polka dot one adds in-a-hand-bag or some such.

      They're all alert, content in their own skins, exhilirated with "inquiring-minds-that-want-to-know."

      Their independence? Their shear luck of having and being in a field of study they love has to provide more real independence along with satisfaction that most of us can merely dream about.

      Your query suggests for instance that you (and I) are not even close. We're dependent. On CR. Elsed we would have a life, eh?

    3. NeilMacCallister  09/04/2010 12:59 PM Report

      ..would they actually recognize real independence?

    4. NeilMacCallister  09/04/2010 12:41 PM Report

      Maybe my amygdala is just too sensitive, ..but what about these mens' ties??

      At first there was Mr. Rose in his near zoot-suit; ..and then Mr. Kandel's polka-dot bowtie, Mr. Damasio's two-tone shirt w/"neapolitan ice-cream" tie, and Mr. LeDoux's absolutely startling plant-cell square tie!

      Mr. Anderson (Cal-Tech) did look straight business, and Kerry Ressler is apparently an over-scheduled young father.

      But it seems as if these "mental-health" doctors have some kind of professional-community agreement to appear idiosyncratically "independent".

      So much so, that Mr. Kandel can't help but remark that Mr. Ressler "Doesn't look like a psychiatrist, but he is!"

      Why would a group of people, all working in the same field, all working at similar universities, all surely being paid by the same public institutions, ..be so seeking of an outward signature of personal independence?

      ***

      Charlie's tie had the Democrat's donkey symbol wandering across its field. His herding instinct must have been stimulated by this year's American political events.

      ***

      We were shown the pictures of the mouse "buzzer-shock" experiment, ..and the flies cowering before the wind,

      But I would have loved to measure these researchers' fear-and-anger responses upon their having a Sarah Palin poster suddenly pop-up on that big-screen TV hanging beside them!

      ..Now THAT would be revealing!!