he is an assistant professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at columbia university. wolfram schultz, he studies how the brain's reward systems affect decision making and learning. he is a professor of neuroscience at cambridge university and a fellow of the royal society. nora volkow. her research into addiction helps us understand drug abuse as a disease rather than a moral weakness. she is a director of the national institute of drug abuse in washington, d.c. eric nestler. through research on mice, his work has illuminated the molecular basis of drug addiction. he is chairman of the department of neuroscience and director of the brain institute at mount sinai medical center here in new york. and once again, my co-host is dr. eric kandel. he is a nobel laureate, as you know by now, also a professor at columbia university and a howard hughes medical investigator and, as you also know, a great friend of this series and the man who has helped us understand this miraculousar gan. welcome. >> mesh pleasure to be here, as ways. >> rose: so as we go through this. as we hav

the reality that neuroscience is opening up the possibility of seeing, as we found with darwin, a revolution in thinking, which i think is coming again, may, instead of opening the human mind, provoke our response to the way that emancipation greeted jim crow. people cannot handle it -- created and jim crow. people cannot handle its. we have to remember that galileo -- what happened to him? the people that stumble upon the truth of the people most dangerous. -- are the most peoplpeople most dangerous. the reformation which discovered the scriptures, which removed the authority of certain people to tell people what was in the bible -- the printing press -- gave us which hunts, which trials, burning at the stake, the inquisition -- the most horrifying. of religious power and fundamentalist -- the most horrifying period of religious power and fundamentalism. i took my husband back to my home town. i was showing him around. we came to the oldest church at the top of the town and we saw these big gravestones. we thought some of these people must be really -- i had not been there for awhile. the m

i really do believe neuroscience and the six throw out some of the most exciting materials of theology and 21st century think theologians could go away and work with that. i love to think how would galileo? >> host: this is the point* that i want to remind you that you are given cards and we hope that to you will use them. because we're happy to chat among marcel's but happy to include your. [laughter] lightyear question answer thoughts or comments or checks. [laughter] and pass them. you can figure that out and in a couple of minutes we will include you in our conversation. don't worry about making always. we are okay up here. did einstein believed in god? >> guest: not decried my grandfather believed then, a personal god. one way you can summarize that is he had a real reverence and a young colleague of his who had a reverence of the laws of physics and the laws of nature. but for him the idea of a personal god, if there were a mind that created these brilliant laws of physics then how could it be this dodd would then interrupt -- interrupt and metal with them because we pray with th

most of these tools are in that discipline of social psychology but some of them are also neuroscience and economics and sociology. and the picture they paint of the unconscious mind is different than the conventional picture we have about the unconscious yet so in contrast to the on conscious that is filled with seating impulses and powerful forces, the unconscious mind that has been under the recent studies is rather mundane. the analogy often like to use is that the unconscious mind that has been recently discovered is very much like the auto pilot function that we have in a plan or the cruise control that we have in a car. it was a very useful function but it's problematic when you are driving through a thunderstorm or flying through a thunderstorm on autopilot instead of on pilot said the analogy between poly licht and although piatt is a metaphor to think about the unconscious mind and it's a way to think differently about the unconscious mind than previous theories. now, the hitting green is a term i claimed. it does not refer to a secret part of the karina this is we had been.

and my question is on your -- in the daily dish, you write a lot about neuroscience.hether as the foundations of behavior have become understood in terms of neurocircuitry, in terms of the things that make us who we are, do you think that's going to change our perception of what's normal, not normal if we start understanding the foundations of behavior, is that a way of replacing in my optimistic view -- replacing natural law and turning the question into a different kind of question? and i wanted to hear what you had to say about that. >> i do. i do think it will open a whole new worlds of understanding of what human -- what being human is. i'm fascinated, for example, of the new york science of faith. i'm fascinated by the studies of the brains of people in deep meditation compared to people who are not. i'm fascinated by the possibility of understanding the homosexual mind. and the heterosexual mind and see if there are differences to see how subtle they are and obviously they change over time. you see, my view aquinas, for example, was desperately seeking the trut

. >> reporter: keep in mind just this week that study was published by the journal name neuroscience,one on rats which found that feeding them high-calorie meals actually led the rats to become compulsive eaters. no direct segway to humans, but certainly very interesting scientific research that will be further explored. shannon? shannon: it's true with me when it comes to chick-fil-a, i'm a little obsessed with them. thank you very much for the update, phil. >> reporter: all right. shannon: well, a wild shootout on the streets of chicago, a hail of gunfire, people running for cover and all of this is caught on tape. we're going to show you how this entire scene played out. and check this out, a florida doctor making it very clear; if you supported president obama's health care reform, your business not welcome with him. now, believe us when we tell you this story did not end with this note. more on that coming up. >> hi. i'm with the 49th infantry brigade here at camp prosperity. i'm from oakland, california, i just wanted to say happy easter to my family. i love you, girls, you guys

we need to take down everything we know about neuroscience and parenting and about raising children and their needs of what they vi succeed. all of our conversations, these kids have the same aspirations to go to college and to something important and meaningful with their lives when need to connect them to the opportunities to make that happen. host: that is the last call, good morning to you caller:. thank you for having this wonderful subject to explore this morning. i came in late so i am sure that you know that april is child abuse month. we are receiving more calls and incoming children into the system here. i made volunteer guardians ad lidum, if you know about that. it has been an amazing time for me. i want to thank you again for having this wonderful discussion. please, anyone considering adoption or foster older children, it turns out to be a wonderful surprise for both sides. we have had excellent results in our area. again, north carolina has done. forefronts if you adopt out of forster care, your child will be eligible for reduced tuition in the state as well as if you hav

most of these tools are in the discipline of social psychology but some of them are also in neurosciencend in economics and in sociology. and the picture that they paint of the unconscious mind is rather different than the conventional picture that we have about the unconscious. so in contrast to an unconscious that is filled with seething impulses and powerful forces, the unconscious mind that has been unearthed in recent studies is rather mundane. the analogy that i often like to use is that the unconscious mind that has been recently discovered is very much like the auto pilot function that we have in the plane or the cruise control function that we have in a car. it plays a very useful function but it's problematic when you're driving through a thunderstorm or flying through a thunderstorm on auto pilot instead of on pilot. and so the analogy between pilot and auto pilot is one metaphor to think of the unconscious mind and it's a different way to think about the unconscious mind than previous theories. now, the hidden -- the hidden brain the term i coined does not refer to a secret p