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With deep brain stimulation and running wires to certain parts of the brain to help her to feel a lack of craving and it shows some promise but i would like as a clinical psychologist i think what are the circumstances besides the physiology that are going on that can be affected. >> base to basics, why does the brain do dumb things? >> thats a great question. >> thats a difficult question. i think that we have a lot of -- the brain as dr. drew was saying is messy. evolutionary messy. higher ord...

Come on, governor. >> okay, thank you. >> oh! >> whoa! come on! >> she said it was an interesting night. you cant disagree. >> i take back what i said about sympathy. its hard to have sympathy for that. >> when you make a charge about headless bodies, you have to be able to defend it. youre a former elected official. >> theyre out there looking for it. >> i would remind people the governor of arizona, im pretty sure the commander in chief of a national guard. they have to respond if theres a pri...

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Section. the idea, tonight, is in this 90-minute debate, there will be nine topics, ten minutes each for the nine topics. but each candidate will begin each topic with a two-minute statement. so lets assume for a moment that each one of them will go over a little bit. the first five minutes of each topic is just each candidates opening statement. then theyre supposed to engage in a discussion. that will leave probably only about five minutes or less for that, so some of these are going to feel l...

Circumstances besides the physiology that are going on that can be affected. >> larry: why does the brain do dumb things. >> thats a great question. >> its a difficult question. i think that we a lot of -- the brain, as dr. drew was saying is messy, its evolutionarily messy and being higher order and higher thinking mammals, sometimes our executive function can kind of get in the way of our deeper and lower brain processes, our more instinctual brain processes, we have a lot of cognitive fallaci...

With deep brain stimulation and running wires to certain parts of the brain to help her to feel a lack of craving and it shows some promise but i would like as a clinical psychologist i think what are the circumstances besides the physiology that are going on that can be affected. >> larry: back to basics, why does the brain do dumb things? >> thats a great question. >> thats a difficult question. i think that we have a lot of -- the brain as dr. drew was saying is messy. evolutionary messy. hig...