How Science and Music Blurred Politics One Day Back Home

Psychology Today | 27.06.2026 01:14
I was invited to give a keynote lecture at the annual Neuro-Psycho-Endocrinology meeting in New Orleans in early September, 2025. As often occurs for such events, I was asked to also play some of the mind-brain songs I wrote for my band, The Amygdaloid’s, over the years. I usually bring Colin Dempsey, our bass player, along on such trips, and we do unplugged acoustic guitar versions of my songs. We were also invited to play for a screening in New Orleans of Werner Herzog’s Theatre of Thought, a documentary about the human brain and mind, which I was in, as were three of my songs.