The Science of Violence | Dr. Gary Slutkin
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Not being invited to the prom. Being humiliated in front of your friends. Feeling like you don't belong. We call those hurt feelings. But our guest today says that the brain calls them something else. The brain calls it.
Pain. Yeah. Yeah, real pain. Like the same brain network that lights up when you break your arm. Welcome to Behavioral Grooves. I'm Kurt Nelson. And I'm Tim Houlihan. Our guest this week is Dr. Gary Slutken. Now, Gary is a physician trained in infectious diseases. He ran a tuberculosis program in San Francisco and he's worked on epidemics like AIDS and cholera around the world, including in Somalia.
Yeah, and then Gary noticed something. He saw that violence behaves Similar to those diseases. It spreads from person to person and it causes More of itself. So He founded Cure Violence, which trains violence interrupters.
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