Keyword: aging

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Creativity and Transforming Illness with Dr. Toby Zausner April 3, 2007

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Dr. Toby Zausner, Kent Robertshaw
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Personal Growth & Change

Illness can be a doorway rather than a dead end. Dr. Toby Zausner, author of “When Walls Become Doorways,” shares her own survival of ovarian cancer and traces how artists including Matisse and Edvard Munch turned serious illness into their greatest work. Dr. Kent Robertshaw, MD, Psychiatrist, explores how tapping creativity fights helplessness and depression.

What Do You Know for Sure March 15, 2007

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Aging & Mortality, Personal Growth & Change

Armand DiMele opens with research on male biological clocks, aging eyesight, fertility cues, and Ambien sleep-eating before pivoting to a bigger question: what do you know for sure? Callers share overlooked personal skills, and Armand uses those skills as a mirror to surface deeper struggles like depression and lost direction.

Remorse, Regret and the Psychopathic Mind November 15, 2006

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Personal Growth & Change

Armand DiMele draws a sharp distinction between remorse and regret, using the psychopathic personality as a lens to show what a life without guilt looks like. Callers share midlife regrets, including a recovering alcoholic ex-cop who reflects on alcohol, isolation, and finding his way back to his kids.

How Memory Really Works with Pierce Howard November 2, 2006

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Pierce Howard
Category: Personal Growth & Change, The Mind & Neuroscience

Memory loss with age is largely a myth, argues Dr. Pierce Howard, author of “The Owner’s Manual for the Brain.” Armand DiMele and Howard dig into how adrenaline fixes memories, why depression distorts recall, the four types of amnesia, and whether dramatically improving memory might actually cost us something valuable.

The Psychology of Grandparenting August 10, 2006

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Catherine, David Travland, Keith, Sante
Category: Family & Parenting, Identity & The Self

Grandparents are everywhere in family life yet almost nowhere in psychology literature. Armand DiMele builds a case for why grandparenting deserves serious study, examining how grandparents transmit love, jealousy, and dysfunction across generations, illustrated by callers sharing their own grandparent stories.

Hormones as Neurotransmitters with Roberta Maria Achi April 26, 2006

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Roberta Maria Achi
Category: Personal Growth & Change, The Mind & Neuroscience

Estrogen isn’t just a reproductive hormone but a neurotransmitter shaping mood, pain, memory, and brain health. Nutritionist Roberta Maria Achi joins Armand DiMele to explain why carelessly manipulating hormone levels, through drugs or surgery, can have far-reaching consequences, and what diet can do instead.

Birthdays and the People Who Forget Them March 14, 2006

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Family & Parenting

Armand DiMele’s own birthday becomes the occasion for listeners to share their best and worst birthday memories. Callers open up about longing for recognition, an alcoholic and shaming family, the guilt of estrangement, and the quiet joy of finally feeling celebrated. Honest, warm radio.

How Hearing Changes as We Age Undated

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Aging & Mortality, The Mind & Neuroscience

Hearing isn’t just physical, it’s psychological. Armand DiMele explains how the ear literally bifurcates with age, making it harder to attend to competing sounds, and how emotional states like depression or childhood fear shape what we allow ourselves to hear.

Reinventing Yourself in Midlife Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Kent Robertshaw, Linda Vanella
Category: Identity & The Self, Personal Growth & Change

Hormonal shifts in middle age are not a slow decline but a shedding of biological imperatives that frees people to rediscover themselves. Armand DiMele and studio guests Dr. Kent Robertshaw, MD, Psychiatrist, and Linda Vanella, LCSW-R, trace how falling testosterone and estrogen reshape identity, drive anxiety, and open the door to playfulness, creativity, and new purpose.

The Science of Sex with Mary Roach Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Mary Roach, Stephanie D'Ambra
Category: Sexuality & Desire, The Mind & Neuroscience

Mary Roach, author of Bonk, joins Armand and co-host Stephanie D’Ambra, LCSW to trace the surprisingly awkward history of sex science, from Leonardo’s coition figures to MRI studies of intercourse. They cover orgasm as a nervous system reflex, the upsuck theory, and how couples still struggle to talk about desire.