In March 2023, I spoke with Gary Aston-Jones, PhD, a neuroscientist who directs the Brain Health Institute at Rutgers University. He has spent more than 30 years studying the brain systems behind motivation and reward, and his recent work focuses on a chemical messenger called orexin.
In March 2023, I spoke with Dr. Cherisa Sandrow and Dr. Alex Sandrow, a married couple who coach physicians who want to build a different kind of career. Cherisa is a family physician who moved into telemedicine years before the pandemic made it familiar.
In February 2023, I welcomed Karen Newell back to the show. Karen is a co-founder of Sacred Acoustics, which makes meditation recordings built on binaural beats, and we talked about sound, sleep, and the meditative states that sit between waking and sleeping.
In February 2023, I spoke with Amy Anthony, an aromatherapist in New York City who teaches aromatherapy certification to students ranging from nurses to doctors. I wanted to understand what aromatherapy actually is, and how it might apply to health care, particularly mental health.