TEDMED bridges the gap between science and the public by sharing stories that inform, inspire, and provoke action inside and outside of medicine.
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Stress is part of normal biology. What makes it toxic?
TEDMED Clearly explains how strong or prolonged stress activation without enough buffering support can affect a child’s health.
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What happens when a child’s stress response stays activated without enough support to recover?
This week at TEDMED, we’re exploring toxic stress and the relationships that help protect developing brains and bodies.
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A flea. A piece of cork. A hidden world.
In Imagination, Curated, we open Micrographia in the Walker Library of the History of Human Imagination to explore the detail Robert Hooke brought into view in 1665.
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Seeing a pattern can help us understand the world. Seeing one that isn’t there can lead us astray.
Jay Walker explores the history of mistaken connections in his TEDMED Talk.
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Three visions of the universe in one atlas.
In Imagination, Curated, we open Harmonia Macrocosmica in the Walker Library of the History of Human Imagination to explore Earth-centered, Sun-centered, and hybrid models of the solar system.
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Introducing Imagination, Curated.
Explore rare books, artifacts, the ideas behind them, and their impact on the world in the Walker Library of the History of Human Imagination.
Watch our introduction to the Library: youtu.be/DcvbNRyQHTU
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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…
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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.
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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
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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.
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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…
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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.
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A good answer is not proof of a dependable tool.
TEDMED Clearly explains what validation means when generative AI moves into health.
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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?
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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