dr. george pratt, noted clinical psychologist. a body/mind approach to calmer, happier, more successful you. first, what is a neuroscience researcher? >> somebody who studies the brain, really. in all aspects. neuroscience is kind of a broad term. it can be neuroby ol, neuropsychology. i have a mixed background in both. >> larry: do you write or teach or both? >> i have been in the past teaching. and doing research while i was working on my degrees. and education is really the path that i want to take. >> larry: let's get into the overall topic here of the brain. start with you, dr. pinsky. why does the brain not stop us from doing things we know are wrong? >> you know, it would make sense if you had, say, an evolutionary point of view that the brain was a perfect instrument that only increased our sur vvivability. but not just trying to decide why the brain isn't a perfect system, in terms of how it operates, how doefs the brain create the mind and what's the relationship between the mind and the brain. >> larry: they're differen

dr. daniel amos and george pratt. what do you make of that study they're doing. dr.mon, we'll start with you about that obesity study in west virginia. >> i think it's very interesting and psychiatrist and neurosurgeons are starting to work together again and planting these electrodes in the brain using imaging for things like resistant depression, obsessive compulsive disorder and morbidly obese and better than the psycho surgery in the 1940s and '50s. >> larry: what did you think of it, cara? >> i think where the research is limited is the problem of knowing why certain people eat or certain people abuse drugs. it would be -- we like to put them all under an umbrella of there's something wrong with their deep mean system or they don't get enough neurotransmitters that tell them they're full but everybody's pathology is differently and until we can diagnose why they have addictive behaviors it will be difficult. >> let me say as a follow-on to that i deal with a lot of people that end up losing the weight and they are not right emotionally after they lose the weight