8 Feb 2026

Feeling apathetic? Science may be able to help

From Sunday Morning, 10:25 am on 8 February 2026

Are some people inherently dispassionate? Or is there a biological reason why someone might become apathetic? 

Masud Husain is a professor of neurology and cognitive neuroscience at the University of Oxford and author of Our Brains, Our Selves. He joins Jim to discuss the mechanism behind apathy and how science can help with motivation. 

Asian woman is sleeping as a hangover from a party or asleep from exhaustion in her bed in the bedroom until the morning.

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