Music therapy — the clinical application of music to treat a wide range of diagnoses using physiological and medical approaches — has advanced dramatically over the past decade, proving to be an effective clinical tool for treating medical diagnoses. Music has been effectively applied to treat Alzheimer’s, dementia, stroke and others, inclu...

Rutgers University

On March 24, 2011, a group of scientists gathered to discuss music, the brain, and education at Rutgers University as a part of the NSF-supported Temporal Dynamics of Learning Centers.

7th Annual Life Sciences & Society Series

For several decades now, neuroscientists have used technology to produce images of the brain in action. But what do such pictures tell us? Should they change the way we think about personal identity and free will? Can they reveal whether a person is capable of making moral decisions, or whether a person is telling the truth? If so, brain...

ASU Origins Project

Richard Dawkins, J. Craig Venter, Nobel laureates Sidney Altman and Leland Hartwell, Chris McKay, Paul Davies, Lawrence Krauss, and The Science Network’s Roger Bingham discuss the origins of life, the possibility of finding life elsewhere, and the latest development in synthetic biology. More than 2500 people filled ASU Gammage Auditorium on S...

UCSD's newly formed Center for Chronobiology (CCB) hosted its 2nd annual chronobiology symposium on February 9-11, 2011. The theme for the symposium was "From Cells to Clinic." A select, stellar group of chronobiologists attended and spoke at the conference. The aims of the conference were to: 1. Provide...

This is the fifth annual all-hands meeting of the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center (TDLC), which investigates time as a crucial element in the learning process and integrates the study of learning dynamics across multiple time scales - from milliseconds, to life-long learning. This new science of the temporal dynamics of learning is meant...

Presented by the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine

Each year, the La Jolla Torrey Pines Mesa region leads California in grants and funding from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. What better place to host Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa – an one-day symposium that draws together the San Diego pioneers who are responsible for advancing research into cures for debilitating diseases a...

ASU Origins

On November 6th, 2010 a panel of renowned scientists, philosophers, and public intellectuals gathered to discuss what impact evolutionary theory and advances in neuroscience might have on traditional concepts of morality. If human morality is an evolutionary adaptation and if neuroscientists can identify specific brain circuitry governing moral...