Your Brain on Fear, Dopamine & Social Media | Neuroscientist Sankalp on Mental Health, Meditation & the Age of AI

The Motivate Collective Podcast by Melanie Suzanne Wilson · Apr 11, 2026 · 1h 2m

Your Brain on Fear, Dopamine & Social Media | Neuroscientist Sankalp on Mental Health, Meditation & the Age of AI

What if the mental health crisis, the attention economy, and the rise of AI are all pointing to the same thing — the urgent need to understand your own mind?

In this return conversation, Melanie sits down again with Sankalp, postdoctoral research associate at the University of Oxford's NeuroSCOPE group, where he investigates the relationship between emotions and decision-making, anhedonia (the reduced ability to experience pleasure), depression, and the neural mechanisms behind…