In the podcast: Dr. Cuanang answers your questions on migraines, memory, madness, and how to take care of your brain
Brain chair at Dr. Cuanang’s Pinto Art Museum in Antipolo.
We had a delightful conversation about brains with neurologist Dr. Joven Cuanang. The noted art collector and chief medical officer of St. Luke’s answered our questions about migraines, their causes and treatments; anti-depressants and psychiatry after Freud; memory and how to keep it sharp; and the assorted voices in our heads.
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Listen to or download the podcast, A Journey Around Your Skull with Dr. Joven Cuanang.
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Saffy: This is my toy brain. I play football with it.
Saffy: Mat, I think your brain fell out.
Mat: Haha, I know that trick. Try it on Drogon.
Drogon: Is it food? Is it delicious? Can I eat it?
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
October 8th, 2013 at 15:20
Heya just DL’d it. Not sure if it’s just me but there’s a good deal of reverb & echo…cho…o
October 8th, 2013 at 15:44
That was awesome. Was that your longest podcast yet? But it still felt bitin. I guess he answered my questions before you even got to ask them…LOL.
If you get a chance to interview him, please ask him what he thinks are the developments in neuro that he’s really excited and most hopeful about. And what he forecasts we’d eventually be able to do with the brain in the near and far future. I’d be really interested in what he has to say about it.
Regarding his opinion on Freud, I guess he just reflects the bias, almost disdain, against psychiatry by neurologists, which I find pretty common. These 2 fields have been in a situation akin to what happened with Cultural Anthro vs. Biological Anthro. Neurologists like to compartmentalize each part of the nervous system according to discrete functions and pathways while psychiatrists tend towards the more abstract and Gestalt interpretation of the mind. The trend in recent years has been a large overlap between the two in both clinical and biochemical considerations, however.
You really have to have Dr. Bueno for a podcast now. I’m sure she would beg to disagree with her good neurologist colleague on some of these answers.
I have not read that particular Sam Harris book yet (I’m guessing it’s the one about morality), but I think free will is one of the most difficult topics that have been discussed ad infinitum by philosophers for thousands of years now and may be one of the big ones that may be elucidated by neuroscience. I would have to read this book now to see what Harris has to say about it, which I hope is backed up by new research in the field of which he has a PhD on, BTW.
P.S. How I wish I had those 12-hour shifts! I had 36-hour ones!
October 9th, 2013 at 01:03
Nice “brainy” chair! That should be mandatory in all schools and public offices!
October 11th, 2013 at 18:02
Thanks Dr. Cuanang and Jessica for answering my question. Ang naalala ko lang ko kay Dr. Bueno wa her thick mascara every time she guested in the morning talk show of Tessie Tomas.
October 12th, 2013 at 03:02
Ang gondooooo ng podcast na ito. Napapangisngis ako habang nakikikig. Maraming salamat sa pagtalakay ng aking mga katanungan. Sabi ko na, kailangan kong magpa-MRI at kumonsulta sa neuro. Pero saka na kapag kaya ko nang tanggapin ang anumang resulta.
Maraming salamat muli.