Ep153 Can You Unlearn Anxiety? with Judson Brewer

About this episode

David Eagleman discusses anxiety and its treatment with psychiatrist and neuroscientist Judson Brewer.

Week 2 of Mental Health Awareness month: Anxiety is close to everyone’s experience, either because you've had it or someone close to you has. Does your brain accidentally teach itself to stay anxious by looping on the same fears? Is anxiety helping you perform better, or does it make everything harder? Is it possible to unlearn worry the same way you learned it? Join Eagleman with Dr. Jud Brewer, who suffered with anxiety as a young man... and then became a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who studies anxiety and developed a very different approach to its treatment.

People in this episode

Host: David Eagleman

Guest: Judson Brewer

Topics covered

• anxiety
• mental health
• neuroscience
• treatment
• psychology

Keywords

• anxiety
• mental health
• neuroscience
• treatment
• worry
• performance
• psychology

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