UCSD's Nick Spitzer hosts neuroscientist Bob Galambos a pioneer in understanding fundamental principles of the auditory system. Series: "UCSD Guestbook" [11/2002] [Science] [Show ID: 6646]

UCSD's Nick Spitzer hosts neuroscientist Ted Bullock, a leader in determining the electrophysiological basis of behavior. Series: "UCSD Guestbook" [11/2002] [Science] [Show ID: 6645]

UCSD's Nick Spitzer hosts noted neuroscientist Martin Raff in a fascinating discussion about his work and future directions in neuroscience. Series: "UCSD Guestbook" [8/2004] [Science] [Show ID: 8586]

Join UCSD's Nick Spitzer in conversation with Larry Squire, a distinguished senior neuroscientist whose seminal contributions form the basis of much of our understanding of primate memory. Series: UCSD Guestbook [9/2005] [Science] [Show ID: 9457]

UCSD's Nick Spitzer hosts Mark Konishi in a fascinating exploration of his seminal work in neuroethology, using birds to explore how nervous systems generate natural behaviors such as birdsong and locating prey with sound. Series: UCSD Guestbook [6/2006] [Science] [Show ID: 11591]

Join UCSD's Nick Spitzer as he hosts noted neuroscientist Charles F. Stevens of the Salk Institute for Biological studies. Series: "UCSD Guestbook" [10/2001] [Science] [Show ID: 5606]

Book review of Proust Was a Neuroscientist http://bicyclefeathers.blogspot.com Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer Houghton Mifflin Company Boston 2007 ISBN: 978-0-618-62010-4 http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/

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Jonah Lehrer visits Google's Cambridge, MA office to discuss his book "Proust Was a Neuroscientist." This event took place on June 11, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series.

First, literary and cultural critic and Columbia professor Edward Said shares his views on Israel, Palestine, and the peace process between the countries. Then, a discussion about the relationship between dreaming, sleep, and memory with Dr. Jonathan Winson, a neuroscientist from Rockefeller University, and Dr. Matthew Wilson, a neuroscientist from MIT. Finally, director Allison Anders discusses her filmmaking process and her movie about Latina gang members, "Mi Vida Loca".

Marco Iacoboni, a leading neuroscientist whose work has been covered in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal, explains the groundbreaking research into mirror neurons, the "smart cells" in our brain that allow us to understand others. From imitation to morality, from learning to addiction, from political affiliations to consumer choices, mirror neurons seem to have properties that are relevant to all these aspects of social cognition. Marco Iacoboni is a neurologist and neuroscientist at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He has appeared on Good Morning America, the Early Show, and Morning Edition, among other TV and radio programs. This event took place on June 6, 2008, as a part of the Authors@Google series.

Part 3. Neuroscientist Dr. Sam Wang discussed the human brain and how it's wired to experience various phenomena. Made of 3 lbs. of tissue with 100 billion neurons, the brain acts as an information processing device and filter. The truth is, we use all parts...

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/dn14312?DCMP=youtube Neuroscientist Chris Frith talks about how we don't really use reason.

Award-winning writer, director, and producer David Lynch discusses his films and his 30-year relationship with Transcendental Meditation, and its role in his creative process. He is joined by physicist John Hagelin, who was featured in the documentary 'What The Bleep Do We Know?' and neuroscientist Dr. Fred Travis, Director of the Center for Brain, Consciousness, and Cognition at Maharishi University of Management. The program is sponsored in joint partnership by the College of Arts and Sciences and the University of Washington Alumni Association.

http://www.ted.com Neuroscientist and inventor Christopher deCharms demos an amazing new way to use fMRI to show brain activity while it is happening -- emotion, body movement, pain. (In other words, you can literally see how you feel.) The applications for real-time fMRIs start with chronic pain control and range into the realm of science fiction, but this technology is very real.

Richard O. Brown, Staff Neuroscientist at The Exploratorium, talks about the interaction between mind and matter and visual perception. He talks about and illustrates with fascinating visuals three concepts: 1. There is nothing out there and we perceive nothing which he feels comes closest to blackness. 2. There is something out there and we can't perceive it, which comes closest to invisibility. 3. There is nothing out there and we're still experiencing or perceiving something. Series: "Voices" [8/2001] [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 5947]

http://www.ted.com Al Seckel, a cognitive neuroscientist and master of visual illusions, explores some of the perceptual illusions that fool our eyes and our brains. Running through example after example of images that buck our expectations, he asks why such tricks make us so happy (The Pursuit of Happiness was the theme of the 2004 TED conference). He even creates some of his own illusions, challenging our notion of what's true.

Join UCSD neuroscientist Nick Spitzer as he hosts Nobel Laureate and 1999's Steven W. Kuffler lecturer Francis Crick in a fascinating conversation about Dr.Crick's investigations of human consciousness. Series: "UCSD Guestbook" [4/1999] [Science] [Show ID: 4243]

with Bill Maher In Theaters October 3rd Known for his stance against religion, Bill Maher's views on the various world religions are explored as he travels to numerous religious destinations, such as Jerusalem, the Vatican, and Salt Lake City, interviewing believers from a variety of backgrounds and groups, including Jews for Jesus, Muslims, polygamists, Satanists, Hasidic scholars and even Rael of the Raelian Movement.[2][3] In the trailer and documentary Maher also interviews research neuroscientist Andrew Newberg, MD, (author of Why We Believe What We Believe) who brain-scans people at the University of Pennyslvania as they pray, meditate and speak in tongues. The documentary was produced by Thousand Words and is being distributed by Lionsgate. Originally slated for intentional release date coinciding with the religious Easter holiday 2008, post-production delays resulting from a screenwriters guild strike pushed the release date back to July 11, 2008.[4] Release has now been pushed back to October 3, 2008.[5]

Why does food look more appealing when you are hungry? Scientists are finding that the same chemical in your stomach that causes hunger also changes how your brain perceives food, as this ScienCentral News video explains.

Neuroscientist Sally Temple was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2008. The Fellowship is a $500,000, no-strings-attached grant for individuals who have shown exceptional creativity in their work and the promise to do more.

Neuroscientist Patricia Churchland explores how the human mind functions in guiding one's decisions. Series: Grey Matters [5/2006] [Science] [Show ID: 11190]

http://www.mum.edu How does transcending affect the brain? Live EEG during Transcendental Meditation. Neuroscientist Fred Travis, PhD, during the David Lynch Tour (Emerson College, Boston; November 2005)

Marco Iacoboni, MD PhD, is a neurologist and neuroscientist originally from Italy. Today he is at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, where he serves on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and is Director of the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation laboratory of the Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center. Iacoboni's lab is arguably the leading lab in human mirror neuron research and he has a close relationship with Giacomo Rizzolatti in whose lab mirror neurons were originally discovered in monkeys. In the monkey premotor cortex, Rizzolatti and colleagues discovered cells that fire not only when the monkey performs goal oriented actions, but also when it observes the same action performed by somebody else. These cells are called mirror neurons, and are thought to be the evolutionary precursors of neural mechanisms supporting several aspects of social behavior, from imitation to empathy. The many evolutionary steps between small apes and humans suggest that mirror neurons may have also evolved from the monkey brain to the human brain. Investigations of the human brain, however, typically do not allow to study individual cells. Using a rare clinical opportunity, we have recently recorded single and multi-unit spiking activity from human neurons. Our data provide several novel findings: first, direct evidence for the existence of mirror neurons in the human brain; second, the anatomical distribution of these neurons extends from previously reported inferior frontal and inferior parietal cortex to the medial frontal and medial temporal cortices; third, excitatory and inhibitory responses in mirror neurons are equally represented; fourth, a third of human mirror neurons show opposing pattern of excitation and inhibition during action observation and action execution, a neural feature that may help preserving the sense of being the owner of an action during mirroring, and exert control on unwanted imitation. Taken together, these findings suggest that mirror neurons form a multimodal system for flexible integration of the perceptual and motor aspects of actions of the self and others.

http://www.mum.edu Neuroscientist Fred Travis, PhD, compares brain patterns of concentration and of Transcendental Meditation.