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How to operate, what tease correlation between the mind and a brain. the best way i can communicate to it me. music has an existence of its own, it can be shaped and changed, but it's dependent on the violin and the bow to be creative. >> larry: dr. amon, let's talk about overeating. anybody would know it's wrong to overeat, it's bad to be fat, so why would you overeat? doesn't the brain tell you that's too much? >> not really. in fact, as your weight goes up, the actual physical size of your brain goes down. so your judgment -- >> larry: you get dumber? >> you get dumber, your reasons goes do...

Drugs are illegal, is there a criminal mind toward the brain, you know you're doing wrong, not only for the addiction, but you would even steal it for the addiction, what is the brain doing there. >> when we talk about addiction or will power, we have to talk about the front of the brain. so the front third of the brain, the prefrontal cortex, largest in humans than in any other human. 7% of your dog's brain, 3% of your cat's brain, when you're prefrontal cortex works right and it's not fully developed until we're about 25 years old, when it's weak, it's like the supervisor in your head is tak...

Author too of "code to joy." first, cara, what is a neuroscience researcher? >> somebody who studies the rain, really, i mean in all aspects. neuroscience is actually a broad term. it can be neurobiology, it can be neuropsychology. >> larry: do you write or teach or both? >> i have in the past some teaching while i was on my way to my degree. >> larry: let's get to the overall topic, the brain. why does the brain not stop us from doing things we know are wrong. >> it would make sense if you had an evolutionary point of view that the brain was a perfect instrument that only increased our surviv...

Circumstances besides the physiology that are going on that can be affected. >> larry: why does the brain do dumb things. >> that's a great question. >> it's a difficult question. i think that we a lot of -- the brain, as dr. drew was saying is messy, it's 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 fallacies that we have to -- one fallacy is that people who have been experiencing overeating, once they...

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