Feeling a little frazzled as 2025 comes to a close?
Put your to-do list on pause and join me for an evening of science, storytelling, and connection.
I'm bringing Hidden Brain's Perceptions Tour to the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles on November 22nd.
I'll be sharing seven key psychological insights from the first decade of the show.
To get your tickets, go to hiddenbrain.org.
I'm also excited to announce that we are adding more dates to the tour for 2026.
I'll be in Philadelphia on March 21st and New York City on March 25th.
Hidden Brain listeners get first-cracket tickets to those shows.
The presale begins at 3 p.m.
Eastern on November 3rd and runs through November 5th.
To get your tickets to our 2026 shows,
go to hiddenbrain.org slash tour and use the promo code BRAIN.
No promo code is needed after November 5th.
I hope to see you there.
And here's today's show.
This is Hidden Brain.
I'm Shankar Vedanta.
When we are facing struggles with our thoughts or our emotions,
many of us turn first to medication or therapy as solutions.
The share of American adults reporting they took prescription drugs for mental health conditions stood at 19% in 2022.