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Oct 21, 2026
Rethinking Mental Illness: Why Biology Matters for Brain Health
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2:07Deborah WestphalHOST
Looking back, what are some of the common threads here or common questions that you have worked on or focused on through all these transitions?
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2:25Greg WitkopGUEST
If I were to kind of integrate things, I think really Ultimately, it's all due to a couple of great high school teachers that I started out with.
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2:32Greg WitkopGUEST
I had a wonderful physics teacher, a wonderful humanities teacher, and they had me really reading William James and Helmholtz when I was in high school.
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2:40Greg WitkopGUEST
And so this idea around how the brain actually constructs our subjective experience, how it impacts our quality of life, the suffering that can occur, and the joys and the excellence that can occur.
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2:55Greg WitkopGUEST
And so I actually went to medical school thinking I'd either be a psychiatrist or a neurosurgeon, which tells you how little you know before you go to medical school.
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36:21Deborah WestphalHOST
Are you still running a program? Are you a part of the grant giving? What is your role?