The moment a person steps off the street and into a restaurant - to take just one example - the brain mentally starts a new "chapter" of the day, a change that causes a big shift in brain activity.

On Thursday evening, AEI’s Brent Orrell hosted psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist and renowned comedian John Cleese for a screening of Dr. McGilchrist’s new documentary, “The Divided Brain.” Based on Dr.

Brain Divided is the story of an ordinary guy who meets a not-so-ordinary girl, but his brain cells can't agree on how to go about winning her over which leads to conflict and comedy!

In Nobel Prize research beginning in the 1960s, Roger W. Sperry and colleagues studied the effects of cutting the forebrain commissures in patients as a radical treatment for intractable epilepsy.

A U.K. mental health consultant and clinical director with a background in literature, McGilchrist attempts to synthesize his two areas of expertise, arguing that the ""divided and asymmetrical nature ...