Nishita Rao

[In Editing Mode: will be updated by the end of the month] 00:00:00 Hi everybody, welcome to neuroscience of pain and pleasure. Before we begin, I'd like to introduce you to the concept of what we call as alert and resting states of brain. We have uh we when we talk about a resting state in brain, it does not mean that we do not have any processes that are running on the back end. That means there exists something called as a default mode network that is constantly running in the background....

[In Editing Mode: will be updated by the end of the month] I'm going to begin this conversation by going back to a little bit of the basics about uh the brain structures, a little bit more about neurotransmitters and the stress response. I will also be touching upon a little amount of a knowledge in epigenetics. I will not be delving deeper into these topics today. But these are necessary for us to differentiate between what is a traumatic response and what is a stressful response and also to...

[In Editing Mode: will be updated by the end of the month] Before we have any conversation about disgust, discrimination or dehumanization, first and foremost, the concepts of biases needs to be addressed. Specifically about biases when it comes to our behaviors towards people we consider as in-group and people we consider as out-group. We all possess a degree of cognitive biases. And yes, they do vary from our behaviors with respect to in-group and out-group. But the biases that I'm more...