The Wire, Not the Will: Rewiring Stress with Dr. Laurel Mellin

Podcast: The Academic Boardroom Podcast · Dr. Eli Joseph, Dr. Janice Gassam Asare

Opublikowano: 2026-08-24

For 42 years, Dr. Laurel Mellin has been part of UCSF, as well as working and studying for almost 50 years the problem of understanding why we suffer. All this experience brought her to a conclusion: the roots of almost every chronic disease, addiction, and mental disorder are the same—a brain being stuck in survival circuits, which means that neither psychotherapy nor effort will affect it; however, five minutes of emotional processing will. In this episode of The Academic Boardroom, Dr. Mellin explains the process of Emotional Brain Training (EBT) to Dr. Eli Joseph and Dr. Janice Gassam Asare, which wa...