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Ep37  "What is Insanity?" Part 2

Ep37 "What is Insanity?" Part 2

FromInner Cosmos with David Eagleman


Ep37 "What is Insanity?" Part 2

FromInner Cosmos with David Eagleman

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Length:
39 minutes
Released:
Dec 4, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

What does the insanity defense mean in a court of law? And is there such a thing as temporary insanity? Is the twinkie defense a real thing? Can someone use premenstrual syndrome as a defense? And what does the legal wrestling around insanity tell us about the differences between brains: yours and other people’s, or even yours one day and yours the next day? How does law comport with science, and how are they sometimes like two people with quite different ways of looking at the world? Join to find out what happened to Andrea Yates, how the legal system deals with mental illness, and so much more.
Released:
Dec 4, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (62)

Neuroscientist and author David Eagleman discusses how our brain interprets the world and what that means for us. Through storytelling, research, interviews, and experiments, David Eagleman tackles wild questions that illuminate new facets of our lives and our realities.