Hosted by Garrick Utley , the series features well known personalitities who host individual programs, many of whom have had personal involvement with the brain disease or research under discussion. We spend a third of our lives sleeping. That averages about 25 years in total.
Research now shows the sleeping brain is as active as the working brain, and perhaps more.
This program explores the value of healthy sleep, which some say is more important to general health than diet, exercise or heredity. Brain scientists around the world have begun to explore the neural underpinnings of music. Any kind of music, whether it's being played or just listened to, is able to shape the structure and function of the brain. Program host is Mandy Patinkin . This program highlights new research that makes clear how inextricably entwined stress, the brain, and the body are.