Charlie Rose

Preston  10/27/2008 12:33 PM Report

Don't do it Spock, we need you on the Enterprise.

TABS  10/27/2008 12:33 PM Report

Behavior And Brain Chemistry..................... Human behavior is limited to learned experience and or instincts (instinct is compounded experience over time). The reason for this is that it is the way the human brain is wired. Human behavior is basically a series of switches in the brain. A set of behavior is a learned experience from yesterday and no human can escape that reality. Human behavior and brain function is modified with every new experience. Until experience builds a new switching mechanism in the brain that changes thought and behavior patterns. Brain chemistry acts as the routing mechanism/catalyst where minute amounts of chemistry regulates and keeps the stem in balance. This change in switching can change brain chemistry over time.

Genetics is basically like instincts, developed over time, to give a basic operating system. As a Mac is different from a PC, and each computer has different software applications. In actuality the computer is formulated from the basic or primitive way the brain works as it is from mans imagination it was developed, and what other structure can we apply but what we know already works.

Now when we add artificial chemistry to brain function to change behavior. we are merely changing the brain switching system and over time the brain will change and become dependent on that chemical to function in that mode.

conrad  08/16/2008 04:08 AM Report

If you devote your life to knowing yourself,its your brain that you will discover.Simply put,I'm a passive aggressive with alot of mania,a bit bi-polar and manic depressive,with a touch of psychosis added to false memories created by dreams of my feelings in the future,appearing as scitzophrenia.All the while recalling past lives,having had 12 alien experiences,obe's,and of course remembering being in my mothers womb as well as making the deals before I came back.It's like being the opposite of retarded.And as Dennis Hopper said to Chris Walken in true romance,"now tell me,am I lyen?"Anyway,im just a regular guy,its a wonder i can do anything.If i wear a blue shirt and a bow tie can i come on your show,and be the expert and the famous guy of anything and everything?Or should I go back to my space?Where are the intellectuals?at starbucks?I only see bumbs there taking sink showers.Even so, i only ever see a bunch of people clapping.Whats really going on?Go around and around the world to see everyone running around,doing "errands."

Maggie McGroarty  05/31/2007 04:33 AM Report

Clear, informative, delightful. Who could imagine a show on such a "serious" subject being so lively and chock full of genuine spontaneous laughter? The LDF (laughter density factor) was the highest of any CR show I've seen in recent memory. And the ideas presented were liberating for those of us trying to thread our way through the 'schools' of therapy to find professional approaches and attitudes that will be genuinely helpful.

Thank you for something special.

Marjorie Carmen  05/29/2007 06:24 AM Report

Charlie, dear,

I just ordered a DVD of your fabulous roundtable discussion of Stem Cells and Neurodegenerative disorders. In the original program I did not hear anything mentioned about Lewy Body Dementias which is not unusual because this devastating disorder is seldom brought up and yet is the second most prevelant brain killer. Please..oh please..do a specific roundtable on it, Charlie. I can send you a list of "experts" in the field.

Blessings, Marjorie Carmen

R.Tina Porta  05/24/2007 06:43 AM Report

Hi Charlie, I looked forward to this particular

discussion on Freud's Legacy...and was not disappointed.

Firstly, it was wonderful to hear the ever charming Dr. Kandel say that " we now all know that Freud was all wrong about his theories on women's sexuality."

Secondly, you did a smashingly good job directing the discussion from point to point,

and as a result, I do feel pretty well informed about the latest updates in this important area of mind/brain research.

Thanks for making it so easy to understand the

major questions, by choosing the best in the field to explain it 'all' to us, your devoted

audience.

Wishing you well, always!

Judith Reynolds  05/24/2007 04:23 AM Report

I enjoyed listening to Aaron Beck's talking of a case history of some time ago where a young woman felt unlovable and was engaged in some cognitive therapy with him. At one point, I remember Dr. Beck said to her,"So you think that I am the supreme arbiter of who is lovable..." at which point the patient says,"don't make me laugh while I'm crying".

I remember it vividly. As it turns out it was a fictitious drama where the name of the actress was given. I assume Dr. Beck was being his ehtical self by not telling of a true session,

and may even have enjoyed his colleague's acceptance of the incident as real.

Elin Ife  05/24/2007 01:40 AM Report

The young man who stole women's handbags - unconsciouly was trying to undue what was done to him in childhood in a symbolic way. His father urinated on his sister and himself. He wasn't able to protect her so was angry with his mother for not validating him and valuing him - very deep seated in his unconscious. Therefore, he pays (symbolic) other women back by taking their $ handbags (symbolic for value-anger) - getting back at them. He has no recourse because he has such need for his mother when his father treats him so badly. No choices as a child. Feels guilty because he can't protect his sister and he is the male in society and angry with other + betrayed by father. What a terrible tragedy for such a young boy. Wonderful program...continue to watch you Charlie Rose - a true statesman...from Vancouver Island, Canada...

Jane Mann  05/24/2007 12:36 AM Report

Charlie, I love all of your programs. This program was especially exciting to me as a therapist. I only wish more stories of patients' issues had been told. It was a wonderful opportunity to interest people considering psychoanalysis.

Joan Rosenfelt  05/24/2007 12:18 AM Report

Oh, Charlie - You did it again! I just want to go to SLEEP and instead I not only watched your show (the discussion about Freud and psychoanalysis & science, etc.) but THEN I HAD to turn on the computer - again - and write and TELL YOU how WONDERFUL that show was! Just fascinating - and so much fun! Really enjoyed it. Thank you!

(And, as I've written several times, I'm up here in the boondocks - Sullivan County, 80 miles from my Greenwich Village apartment - where folks are more interested in huntin' and fishin' than they are in psychoanalysis, which they actually don't know anything about - (except to make jokes occasionally - though of course they don't know enough to make GOOD jokes about it) - so it's refreshing to be able to observe such a lively, intelligent, fascinating really, FUN discussion about a subject of REAL INTEREST.

Thank you so much!

(What would I do without you?! I hate to think....)

Bee Bryan  05/22/2007 08:02 PM Report

I'm delighted to find this program again, which I so enjoyed when I first saw it, and to be able to share it.

Kumar  05/15/2007 12:43 AM Report

This is an excellent program. I enjoyed viewing it.

I just have one comment on the second part, about the question on differences between men and womens brain. Experiments clearly indicate that in 'average' men the brain is right-dominated and in 'average' women the brain is left-dominated. This important information has not been discussed. Left and right functions differently; left is lingual and right is visual. This relates to many differences in behavior of 'average' men and 'average' women.