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#31 How Imagination Can Make You Happy or Miserable

Minding the Brain

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Anxiety and Depression - Is the Frontal Lobe a Time Traveling Device?

Anxiety and depression are the price that we pay for having this beautiful big frontal lobe, right? So it's allowing us to time travel to plan more to like where to get food and where to find a sexual mate. But then we can think also about not getting food in the future. And what happened when we didn't get food or that,. These states are really related about things happening in the past or the future.

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