About The Infinite Mind

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About The Infinite Mind (1997 - 2008)

The Infinite Mind was a national, weekly public radio series which covered the art and science of the human mind and the biology of human behavior. From 1997 to 2008, the show was public radio’s most honored and listened to health and science program, with more than 30 major broadcast awards, and one million listeners weekly. 

The program was produced by the Peabody Award-winning Lichtenstein Creative Media, based in Cambridge, MA.

Each week, The Infinite Mind presented accurate, timely and easily digestible information about how the brain works, and why it sometimes does not, covering mental health, neuroscience and the mind/body connection from scientific, cultural and policy perspectives. The program featured world-leading clinicians and researchers, policymakers, special reports, essays, listener calls, first-person accounts by those affected with psychiatric disorders, as well as relevant author readings and musical performances.

Programs focused on such topics as: Addiction; AIDS and the Mind; Alcoholism; Alzheimer's; Bullying; Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; Depression in the Brain; Domestic Violence; Epilepsy; Gambling; Mental Health and the Elderly; Mental Health and Immigrants; Mental Health and Primary Care; Mental Illness and the Family; Migraines; Multiple Sclerosis; Pain; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; Postpartum Depression; Post-Polio Syndrome; Pregnancy And The Mind; Schizoaffective Disorder; Sports Psychology; and Teen Suicide.

In addition to world-leading scientific researchers and medical professionals, The Infinite Mind features subjects of interest to a broad listening audience with celebrity guests including author John Updike; U.S. Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz; actors including Carey Fisher; Stanley Tucci; Anthony Edwards; Mercedes Ruehl; Margot Kidder and David Straithairn; comedians Richard Lewis and Lewis Black; the Firesign Theater; author William Styron and his wife Rose Styron; baseball batting champ Wade Boggs; former First Lady Rosalynn Carter; documentary filmmaker Ric Burns; television pioneer Norman Lear; business journalist James Cramer; Tipper Gore; Children’s Defense Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman; and live performances and discussions with musicians including Aimee Mann, Jessye Norman, Judy Collins, Suzanne Vega, Janis Ian, Laurie Anderson, Cowboy Junkies, Loudon Wainwright III, Philip Glass, and Emanuel Ax, and the casts of the Broadway hits “Avenue Q” and “Wicked.”

The series aired on public radio stations across the country, and its reach extended well beyond broadcast; many programs were used as educational materials in mental health programs, schools, universities and on military bases.