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Synapse and the Soul

Is my brain me?

Diane Lane is a neuroscientist. She’s spent her life studying the brain—its patterns, its failures, its power to define who we are. But when her mom has a stroke, something essential seems to slip away. The woman she knew is still there—but changed. It forces us to ask: If our brain can so deeply alter us, does it define who we are? We visit a neuroscience lab and hold real human brains in our hands. We meet a man who wants his mind back—and he’s willing to go to extreme lengths to get it. Finally, we wrestle with a haunting question at the edge of science and faith: Are we just the sum of our neurons… or are we something more?

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From Christianity Today in partnership with BioLogos
Hosts: Jesse Eubanks and Faith Stults
Producer: Jesse Eubanks
Associate Producer: McKenzie Hill
Executive Producers: Erik Petrik and Mike Cosper
Senior Producer: Matt Stevens
Music: Jesse Eubanks
Editing: Rachel Akers
Post-Production: Windhill Studios
Sound Design, Scoring, Mixing and Additional Story Editing: Mark Henry Phillips

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