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Awe is interesting scientifically because it can shift attention beyond the self.
The harder question is what that shift changes and what the evidence can actually support.
Learn more through watching a TEDMED Conversation with Jennifer Stellar on the biology of awe: tedmed.com/conversations-pod…
Awe can make personal concerns feel smaller without making them disappear.
Jennifer Stellar and Jon Ellenthal explore how self-transcendent emotions shift attention, connection, and perspective—and why those changes are becoming a serious subject of health research.
Watch the full Conversation: tedmed.com/conversations-pod…
Awe, gratitude, compassion, and admiration can all shift attention beyond our immediate concerns.
Scientists describe these as self-transcendent emotions. TEDMED Clearly breaks down what that means and why the shift in perspective matters. youtu.be/LCv_TyO8pms
Health may depend not only on reducing distress, but on making room for emotions that move us beyond ourselves.
Awe is one example. The larger question is what happens when attention shifts outward toward connection, meaning, and perspective.
A good answer is not proof of a dependable system.
Once AI enters the care relationship, validation has to include the interaction itself.
Explore what happens when AI enters the care relationship in the full Conversation with @deborahestrin: tedmed.com/conversations-pod…
AI in health is not only an information problem. It is a deployment problem.
@deborahestrin and Jay Walker ask what happens when these systems become part of real interactions among patients, clinicians, data, and care systems.
Watch the full Conversation: tedmed.com/conversations-pod…
A good answer is not proof of a dependable tool.
TEDMED Clearly explains what validation means when generative AI moves into health.
Watch TEDMED Clearly: youtu.be/GE2NozbTw9o
A good AI answer is not proof of a dependable tool.
In health, validation has to be specific: what job is the tool doing, for whom, with what data, under what conditions, and what happens when it fails?
Psilocybin may feel newly mainstream. However, the research questions are older.
Roland Griffiths’ TEDMED Talk examines supported conditions, subjective experience, and what researchers observed beyond the session itself.
Watch the full Talk: tedmed.com/talk/the-science-…
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We have more ways to communicate than ever, but are we really listening? This @TEDMED In Context revisits @abe_verghese's 2014 talk on true attention, listening & presence in medicine: bit.ly/4BdIr5w
ALT A person is speaking on stage, gesturing with one hand and holding a device in the other. They are in front of a large screen displaying two hands clasping each other.
Roland Griffiths’ TEDMED Talk shows how psilocybin research was already asking about risk, supported conditions, and subjective experience years before today’s surge in public attention.
Watch the full talk: tedmed.com/talk/the-science-…
The molecule is only the beginning.
Psilocybin’s effects can depend on the person, the dose, the expectations, and the setting around it. TEDMED Clearly breaks down what the compound is and why context matters.
Watch TEDMED Clearly: What is psilocybin? youtu.be/JOaX_HfyIYg
Before drawing conclusions about psilocybin’s promise or risks, it helps to start with the basics: what the compound does, how its effects can vary, and the conditions researchers study around it.
Science needs rules. It also needs the capacity to recognize when those rules are no longer serving the people they're meant to help.
Revisit Anthony Fauci's original TEDMED Talk on the experience that changed how he thought about listening, evidence, and responding to urgent human need.
Watch here: tedmed.com/talk/embracing-fl…
Ending an outbreak and ending its consequences are not the same thing.
Soka Moses asks what "recovery" means when survivors are still navigating stigma, barriers to care, and the lasting effects of a crisis.
Watch the full Talk: tedmed.com/talk/for-survivor…
Scientific rigor isn't the same as rigidity.
We revisit Anthony Fauci's reflections on the HIV/AIDS crisis and what happens when listening to the people most affected changes how science responds.
Watch In Context: tedmed.com/talk/embracing-fl…
Good science has to respond to new evidence and changing circumstances.
In a health crisis, the challenge is adapting without losing the rigor that makes science trustworthy.
This week at TEDMED, we’re looking at what happens when evidence, urgency, and human need are all changing at once.
What if telemedicine’s goal shouldn’t be to imitate an in-person exam?
Elliot Swart asks how technology might extend what clinicians can perceive instead.
Watch the Talk: tedmed.com/talk/seeing-the-d…
“All the big data” still has to come to bear “one human being to another.”
@abe_verghese on what medicine cannot afford to lose as its tools become more powerful.
Watch the full Talk: tedmed.com/talk/a-linguistic…
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Patients notice where attention goes.
A new TEDMED In Context revisits Abraham Verghese’s ideas about presence in medicine and asks what happens when records, screens, and AI increasingly share the clinical encounter.
Watch the new In Context: tedmed.com/talk/a-linguistic…
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