Today Vicki welcomes Joint Commission employee Donise Musheno who will share Know Your Rights and Speak Up advice for yourself and loved ones regarding your medical care. Later, are optimists and pessimists born that way? Can pessimists change? Leading cognitive psychologist and neuroscientist, and author of Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain, Professor Elaine Fox, shares her latest cutting edge research and gives tips for livining on the sunny side of the street.
Professor Elaine Fox is a psychologist and neuroscientist who has researched widely on the science of emotions. Fox is currently Visiting Research Professor in the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and Director of the Affective Neuroscience Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at the University of Essex, where she leads a program of research combining cognitive psychology, neuroimaging, and genetics. She has been Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Essex and an associate editor of leading scientific journals including Emotion and Cognition & Emotion. Her work has been discussed in Nature, Science, New Scientist, The Economist, and The New York Times. More about Professor Fox and her book, Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain.
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