"In order to understand such a very complex system like the brain, we need to have techniques for being able to probe the brain."

An exploration of different techniques used to study brain function on multiple scales, both spatially and temporally.

Unlocking the Next Frontier – Solving the Mystery of the Human Mind

President Obama unveiled his plan to map the active brain with the new initiative Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN). This initiative, considered the next “Human Genome Project”, will bring together scientists from private and public institutions to investigate how the brain’s 100 billion cells interact with ...

• Brain,
• Cross Modal,
• Cross Species,
• Cross Temporal,
• Learning,
• Science of Learning,
• Spike Timing

with neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran

• Brain,
• Brain Function,
• Mental Disorder,
• Phantom limb,
• Synesthesia,
• consciousness,
• mind

In A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness, Ramachandran guides readers through one of the strangest and mysterious places in the natural world - the...

with Terry Sejnowski

• Brain,
• Communication,
• Environment,
• Mechanism,
• Neuron,
• Synaptic Plasticity,
• genetics,
• mind,
• neuroscience

Liars, Lovers, and Heroes combines cutting-edge findings in neuroscience with examples from history and the headlines to introduce the new science of...

• Brain,
• modeling,
• neuroscience

Books by Terrence Sejnowski: Liars, Lovers, and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We Are,...

This is Your Brain on Money

• Brain,
• Cortex,
• Neurons,
• Partial Reconstruction,
• This is Your Brain on Money,
• vision

Terrence Sejnowski is an HHMI investigator, the Francis Crick Professor and Director of the Crick-Jacobs Center for Theoretical and Computational...

This is Your Brain on Politics, continued

• Brain,
• Energy,
• Law,
• Nuclear Weapons,
• Population,
• Public Policy,
• This is Your Brain on Politics,
• climate change

Lawrence M. Krauss is Foundation Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the Physics Department, Co-Director of the Cosmology...

The Scripps Research Institute

• Brain,
• Neurodegenerative Disorders,
• Stem Cells

Introduction to Neurodegenerative Session

UC San Diego

• Alzheimer's,
• Brain,
• Neurodegenerative Disorders,
• Stem Cells

Alzheimer's Disease

• Brain,
• Contingent Adaptation,
• McCollough Effect,
• Primary Visual Cortex,
• Psychophysics,
• neuroscience,
• vision

Valerie Yorgan (Brown University, Neuroscience Department) Ben Cipollini (UC San Diego, Cognitive Science Department)

A conversation with Terry Sejnowski

• Brain,
• Computational Neuroscience,
• Facial Expression,
• Facial Recognition,
• Francis Crick,
• Honey Bees,
• Neuroeconomics,
• education

Congratulations Terry!Terrence J. Sejnowski has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the nation’s most prestigious...

Commentary by Fred "Rusty" Gage, PhD

• Architecture,
• Brain,
• Environment,
• Intuition,
• Scientific Method,
• Structure,
• neuroscience

This presentation discusses the challenges and opportunities of developing evidence to inform creativity and to enhance innovationin design. The...

David Cheinberg

• Behavior,
• Brain,
• Complex world,
• Neurons,
• Space,
• Temporal Lobe,
• Time,
• Visual

David Cheinberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Brown University. His research is focused on how humans identify...

April Benasich

• Auditory signals,
• Brain,
• Brain Development,
• Infant,
• Time scale,
• cognition,
• language

April Benasich is a tenured Professor of Neuroscience and the Director of the Infancy Studies Laboratory at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral...

Marlene Behrmann

• Behavior,
• Brain,
• Cognitive,
• Face Recognition,
• Fusiform Gyrus,
• Organization

Marlene Behrmann is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research is focused on the necessary psychological...

The Molecular and Structural Basis of Age Related Synaptic Alterations in the Central Nervous System

• Aging,
• Brain,
• Caloric restriction,
• Communication,
• Diet,
• Funding,
• Media,
• Research,
• Retina

Melanie Samuel is a Post-Doctoral Associate in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. Her research is focused on...

Vanderbilt University Law School

• Behavior,
• Brain,
• Criminal,
• Law,
• Trust,
• Violence,
• neuroscience,
• philosophy,
• religion

Nita Farahany is a Professor of Law and Philosophy at Vanderbilt University Law School. She researches and writes about the intersection of criminal...

Vanderbilt University Law School

• Brain,
• Criminal Law,
• Death Penalty,
• Justice,
• Juvenile,
• Teenage,
• neuroscience

Terry Maroney is an Associate Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School. Her research interests include criminal law, juvenile justice,...

Vanderbilt University

• Attention,
• Brain,
• Expertise,
• Linguistics,
• Literate,
• Math,
• Visual,
• education,
• fMRI,
• neuroscience

Bruce McCandliss is a Sackler Scholar and Professor of Psychology and Human Development at Vanderbilt University. His research is focused applying...

University of California, Berkeley

• Brain,
• Learning,
• Mechanism,
• Neurons,
• Plasticity,
• Sensory,
• education,
• genetics,
• neuroscience

Dan Feldman is an Associate Professor of Neurobiology in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. His...

University of California, San Diego

• Amygdala,
• Behavioral Neuroscience,
• Brain,
• Emotion,
• Exercise,
• Fear,
• Learning,
• Rat,
• Teaching,
• cognition,
• education,
• music

Andrea Chiba is a Professor in the Department of Cognitive Science and an affiliate of the Graduate Program in Neurosciences at the University of...

Introduction with Duane Roth

• Brain

Held at the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine Auditorium on May 17, 2013, the event was introduced by CONNECT CEO Duane Roth, who passed...

Panel

• Brain

Panel: Ralph Greenspan, Associate Director of the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind at UC San Diego (KIBM)Terrence Sejnowski, Director,...