Episode · EconTalk · 2023-05-01
Russ Roberts, Patrick House & Itzhak Fried: books mentioned on EconTalk
Patrick House and Itzhak Fried on the Brain's Mysteries
While operating on a 16-year-old girl who suffered from severe seizures, neurosurgeon Itzhak Fried stumbled on the region of the brain that makes us laugh. To neuroscientist Patrick House, Fried's ability to produce laughter surgically raises deep and disconcerting questions about how the brain works.
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“the first is author and neuroscientist Patrick house he was here on the program in December of 2022 talking about his book 19 ways of looking at Consciousness that book is framed around a one-page paper in nature from 1998”