Brain Trees (with Sophie Scott, CBE)

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Send us Fan MailProfessor Sophie Scott is a neuroscientist and Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow at University College London (UCL). Her research investigates the cognitive neuroscience of voices, speech and laughter.We talk about the medical benefits of laughter, tree-like connectors in the brain, and how best to rewire our most complex organ for an immortal world. (***Sophie Scott, CBE FMedSci FBA)Follow us on Instagram @deathlesspodAnd one more thing... How's your immortality going?

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Send us Fan Mail Professor Sophie Scott is a neuroscientist and Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow at University College London (UCL). Her research investigates the cognitive neuroscience of voices, speech and laughter. We talk about the medical benefits of laughter, tree-like connectors in the brain, and how best to rewire our most complex organ for an immortal world. (***Sophie Scott, CBE FMedSci FBA) Follow us on Instagram @deathlesspod And one more thing... How's your immortality going?

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