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Motivated Behavior: Training Your Brain

Season 10 Episode 4 | 25m 46s

The biology of behavior offers tools for a holistic approach to increase good habits and decrease bad habits including how talk therapy, exposure therapy, meditation and spirituality and more can impact the brain’s pre-frontal cortex to regulate emotion and decision making. Guest:Nii Addy, Ph.D, Albert E. Kent Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine.

Aired: 08/31/25 | Expires: 08/31/28
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