Mri T2 Of A Normal Brain Mid Sagittal View.

Crazy Logic

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 27, 2016

From crazy dreams to self-preserving impulses, the human brain reaches all sorts of conclusions for seemingly illogical reasons.

Eliezer Sternberg, a resident neurologist at Yale/New Haven Hospital and the author of NeuroLogic: The Brain's Hidden Rationale Behind Our Irrational Behavior (Pantheon, 2016), finds that the mind's most illogical symptoms follow the logic determined by the brain's coordination of conscious and unconscious thought.

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