About this talk Neuroscientist Michael Merzenich looks at one of the secrets of the brain's incredible power: its ability to actively re-wire itself. He's researching ways to harness the brain's plasticity to enhance our skills and recover lost function. About Michael Merzenich Michael Merzenich studies neuroplasticity -- the brain's powerful ability to change itself and adapt -- and ways we might make use of that plasticity to heal injured brains.
Author Michael Gurian visits Google's headquarters in Mountain View, CA, to discuss his book "Leadership and the Sexes". This event took place September 10, 2008, as a part of the Authors@google series. For more info, please visit http://www.michaelgurian.com/ Leadership and the Sexes presents brain science tools with which readers can look into the brains of men and women to understand themselves and one another. The book also provides five Gender Tools, which can be used immediately in executive, management, design, and marketing teams. The gender science presented in this book has been used successfully by such diverse corporations as IBM, Nissan, Proctor & Gamble, Deloitte & Touche, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Brooks Sports, and many others. This gender science helps leaders increase their organization's competitive edge, profits, and bottom line. Michael Gurian is a thought-leader, corporate consultant, family therapist, and the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-five books, including Leading Partners, The Wonder of Girls, Boys and Girls Learn Differently!, The Wonder of Boys, and The Minds of Boys. The co-founder of the Gurian Institute, he has spearheaded a national effort to provide communities and corporations with training in brain-based gender issues. Link to the Gurian Institute: http://www.gurianinstitute.com/
Louann Brizendine visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss her book "The Female Brain." This event took place on August 7, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series.
David Lynch: Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain - 109 min - Nov 6, 2005 UC Berkeley Educational Technology Services - webcast.berkeley.edu
The inside story on transcending the brain, with David Lynch, Award-winning film director of Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Mullholland Drive, Inland Empire (filming); John Hagelin, Ph.D., Quantum physicist featured in "What the bleep do we know?;" and Fred Travis, Ph.D., Director, Center for Brain, Consciousness and Cognition Maharishi University of Management.
Hacking the brain by predicting the future and inverting the un-invertible - 53 min - Jan 27, 2006 Google engEDU - www.google.com
Google TechTalks January 27, 2006 William Softky The brain seems to carry out nearly all its sensory perception using generic, interchangeable modules, each of which learns (from scratch) to represent and process whatever signals it is exposed to. But what does each module actually do? What is the "API" between modules such that they can all learn and work in harmony?
How the brain works, what it computes, and how/when we might build ... - 120 min - May 9, 2006 IBM Panel - http://www.almaden.ibm.com/institute/agenda.shtml
Lecture 5 of 12 of IBM Research's Almaden Institute Conference on Cognitive Computing. Panel speakers: - James Albus, NIST: Powerpoint presentation at http://www.almaden.ibm.com/institute/resources/2006/Almaden%20Institute%20James%20Albus.ppt. - Theodore Berger, USC: Discusses how to replace parts of the brain with VLSI computer chips (in the case of bringing functionality back to a region of the brain that was removed due to a tumor). Powerpoint presentation at http://www.almaden.ibm.com/institute/resources/2006/Almaden%20Institute%20Theodore%20W.%20Berger.ppt. - Kwabena Boahen, Stanford: Presents energy analysis of brains vs. computers. Powerpoint presentation at http://www.almaden.ibm.com/institute/resources/2006/Almaden%20Institute%20Kwabena%20Boahen.ppt. - Ralph Linsker, IBM: Shows demo of separating multiple overlapping voices using a neurally-inspired algorithm.
Each time neuropsychiatrist Restak visits with a new book, we learn more about the exciting findings being made in neurology. In his new book, Restak writes about social neuroscience, the interaction between our brains' hard wiring and our social relationships - Politics and Prose Dr. Richard Restak is a practicing neurologist and neuropsychiatrist and the author of dozens of articles and more than 15 books on the brain, including The Brain, Mysteries of the Mind, and The Longevity Strategy. The Brain, also a companion book to a PBS series, was a national bestseller. Restak has appeared on National Public Radio's Morning Edition and All Things Considered, PBS's McNeil-Lehrer Report, NBC's Today Show, ABC's Good Morning America, and the Discovery Channel. Restak has served on various national advisory councils for brain research and has been a consultant to PBS and to NBC's Today Show. Dr. Restak is a graduate of Georgetown University School of Medicine.
The Neuroscience of Consciousness, Perception, and Self with Eric Haseltine and Bob Woodruff speaking at the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival.
A college degree no longer guarantees middle-class status, since Americans now compete with professionals the world over. How will our next president address this problem?
In this, its third year, Aspen Ideas Festival once again gathers scientists, artists, politicians, historians, educators, activists, and other great thinkers around some of the most important and fascinating ideas of our time. As these thinkers present their provocative ideas, they engage a sophisticated and highly motivated audience.
The Commonwealth Club of California San Francisco, CA Apr 16th, 2008
Stephen Murdoch, author of IQ: A Smart History of a Failed Idea, discusses the invention and history of the IQ test and its applications from the past to the present.
Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know--such as the brain's need for physical activity to work at its best. How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why is it so easy to forget--and so important to repeat new information? Is it true that men and women have different brains? In Brain Rules, molecular biologist Dr. John Medina shares his lifelong interest in how the brain sciences might influence the way we teach our children and the way we work. In each chapter, he describes a brain rule--what scientists know for sure about how our brains work--and then offers transformative ideas for our daily lives. For more information go to http://www.brainrules.net/.
Take a look into our current understanding of the function of the human brain and some of the important diseases that cause nervous system dysfunction. On this edition, Jason Satterfiled, director of behavioral medicine at UCSF, explores the emotions and health and the promise of mind-body medicine.
You might think that your memory is there to help you remember facts, such as birthdays or shopping lists. ... all » If so, you would be very wrong. The ability to travel back in time in your mind is, perhaps, your most remarkable ability, and develops over your lifespan. Horizon takes viewers on an extraordinary journey into the human memory. From the woman who is having her most traumatic memories wiped by a pill, to the man with no memory, this film reveals how these remarkable human stories are transforming our understanding of this unique human ability. The findings reveal the startling truth that everyone is little more than their own memory.
About This Video Beginning two years before puberty and continuing until the late teen and early adult years, the female brain undergoes massive growth and changes in circuitry. This is true for boys too--but in different brain circuits than girls. Dr. Louann Brizendine shares new findings in the teen girl brain and various strategies being developed to help navigate this special stage of a female's life. Series: "Women's Health Today"
Battle of Ideas: My Brain Made Me Do It at the 2007 Battle of Ideas conference hosted by the Institute of Ideas. With the politics of behaviour in the ascendancy, there is increasing interest in what science can tell us about why people behave the way they do. The British government is funding the creation of the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners, with the express aim of training a 'parenting workforce' to provide science-based child-rearing advice to parents. In the USA, the MRI scanner and the neuroscientific community are entering the court room to give evidence about whether defendants can be regarded as being responsible for their alleged crimes. UK policymakers cite scientific 'evidence' to explain new interventions on everything from early years' education to the alleged impact of school dinners on academic performance. The science of nutrition now informs earnest discussions about how children's diets improve their classroom behaviour, in order to justify policing lunchboxes and putting school meals at the top of the political agenda. Studies of teenage brain development now regularly inform social debates about the impact of new technologies on young people.
But how much can science tell us about behaviour? Do scientific findings justify the government's many interventions into the early years of children's lives? Should neuroscience enjoy an exalted place in the courtroom? Are policies being developed because of genuine advances in scientific knowledge - or is science being (mis)used, perhaps in the place of political conviction, to justify policies?
Louann Brizendine talks about The Female Brain. Brizendine established the first clinic in the country to study and treat women's brain functions. This revolutionary book combines two decades of her work and the latest information from the scientific community to provide a truly comprehensive look at the way women's minds work. Marilyn Yalom says An eye-opening account of the biological foundations of human behavior. Destined to become a classic in the field of gender studies. - Book Passage
Politics and Prose Washington, D.C. Nov 4th, 2006 The Naked Brain Each time neuropsychiatrist Restak visits with a new book, we learn more about the exciting findings being made in neurology. In his new book, Restak writes about social neuroscience, the interaction between our brains' hard wiring and our social relationships -
The Long Now Foundation, San Francisco, CA. Oct 12th, 2007
Mapping the Frontier of Knowledge with Juan Enriquez speaking at a seminar hosted by The Long Now Foundation. Enriquez has a world-class collection of historic maps made at the very point of discovery. He will deploy them for the first time in one of his dazzling presentations, to examine how we image and imagine what we are exploring, and thus image and imagine exploration itself. Enriquez is author of As the Future Catches You and The Untied States of America, and CEO and Chair of Biotechonomy, a life sciences research and investment firm - The Long Now Foundation
