Keyword: perception

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When Delusions Feel Real with Dr. Sherry Siegel Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Sherri Siegel
Category: Identity & The Self, The Mind & Neuroscience

What separates a fixed false belief from reality, and when should it be challenged? Armand DiMele and Dr. Sherry Siegel, M.D. walk through the psychiatric anatomy of delusions and hallucinations, from delusional jealousy to Lilliputian visions in Parkinson’s patients, using vivid case stories to show how the brain constructs and distorts the real.

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.

How Mirror Neurons Shape Empathy Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Roberta Maria Atti
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, The Mind & Neuroscience

Mirror neurons fire as if you are doing what you merely observe, and that single fact explains empathy, art, sports fandom, and psychic-seeming intuition. Armand and co-host Roberta Maria Atti trace the discovery from a researcher in Parma watching a monkey mimic his coffee sip, then connect it to personality types, great athletes, and the secret of why pizza vanishes at parties.