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Distinguished Speakers Series - Fall 2009

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Christof Koch, Ph.D.Consciousness: The Movie in Your Mind
Monday, May 4, 2009
Christof Koch, Ph.D.

California Institute of Technology

MSF Research Award Grantee

For the past 20 years, Christof Koch, Ph.D., has sought to explain how the vivid impressions of our sensory experience are generated by the interactions of networks of neurons that embody our minds. Dr. Koch presented a lively overview of his scientific research program aimed at discovering the answer to one of the great scientific questions of our time: What is the material basis of conscious awareness?

 

 

Genes, Addiction and the Brain

Monday, March 16, 2009

Adron Harris, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

MSF enjoyed a standing room only presentation on Monday, March 16, 2009 by Adron Harris, Ph.D., award-winning researcher on alcoholism and Director of the Waggoner Center for Alcoholism and Addiction Research at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Harris spoke on the molecular biology of alcoholism and the complex relationships between genes, addiction and the brain.

 

Past Speakers & Presenters

The Brain That Changes Itself 2058: The Future of the Human Mind Your Brain and the Law: The Brave New World of Neurolaw The Body Has A Mind Of Its Own Seeing with Sound:
Human Blindness and Sight Recovery
Doidge Dial Eagleman Photo of Melissa Saenz, PhD
Norman Doidge, M.D. Joseph Dial David Eagleman, PhD Sandra Blakeslee Dr. Melissa Saenz
         
Spotless Mind: The Neurobiology of Emotional Memories Secrets of the Teen Brain The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature The Primordial Emotions
Joseph LeDoux, PhD

Jay Giedd, MD

David Buss, PhD Steven Pinker, PhD Derek Denton, MD
         
Illusion and Reality: At the Boundary of Art and Science Dreaming As Delirium Exuberance Thinking In Pictures The Ethical Brain
Photo of Susana Martinez-Conde
Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD J. Allan Hobson, MD Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD Temple Grandin, PhD Michael S. Gazzaniga, PhD
         
Origin of Minds & Emotions The Literary & Imaginative Calling To Medicine The Mind & The Brain Coincidence Theory & Extraordinary Ways of Knowing Art & The Brain
Roger Bingham, PhD Dr. Abraham Verghese, MD, MFA (Curriculum Vitae) Jeffrey Schwartz, M.D. Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, Ph.D. Dr. V.S. Ramachandran
         
The Arts & the Brain
Perspectives and Performances
Community Healing Workshop & Photo Exhibit Meditation as a Healing Practice
Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi, PhD
McNay Art Museum

Dr. Ricardo Ainslie

Dr. Mahzarin Banaji

Sarah Wilson

Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi, Ph.D.
         
Finding My Voice Children & Television:
Using TV Sensibly
Synesthesia Boundaries of Consciousness
Diane Rehm Dr. John Murray Cyrus Yavneh Dr. Peter Grossenbacher Dr. Steven Laureys
         
Jane Goodall Ilya Prigogine      
     
Jane Goodall Ilya Prigogine, Ph.D.      
         

Past Summer Mixers

Dreams from a Jungian Perspective The Artful Brain Metaphor    
   
Emilio Romero, M.D. Joseph Dial Marga Speicher, Ph. D., LCSW    
 
     

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