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Renowned neurologist Dr. W. Lee Warren has been studying the power of the human brain for many years. In this illuminating talk, he explains how the brain is wired and deciphers how faith, doubt, anxiety, fear, and loss affect the workings of the mind. Further, Dr. Warren parses out the often interconnected emotions of faith, doubt, and fear, and shows how we can use the power of neuroscience to move from fear to faith.

Our thoughts and experiences intrinsically affect our neurochemistry. Dr. W. Lee Warren is no stranger to this, as a neurosurgeon and trauma specialist with firsthand experience researching the effects of negative and positive thinking on the human brain. Dr. Warren shows audiences how things like faith, drive, and creativity—or a lack thereof—have lasting effects on the physical body, our overall health, and our relationships with other people. He provides a glimpse at how having an outlook of meaning and purpose can vastly improve brain function under adverse circumstances, and, ultimately, posits that hopelessness is deadlier than the most malignant illnesses.

You can’t change your life until you change your mind. In this powerful lecture, Dr. Warren offers several techniques and tools to perform “self-brain surgery”—the concept of altering and reframing one’s mindset in order to positively transform one’s neurochemistry.