"Treo creator Jeff Hawkins urges us to take a new look at the brain -- to see it not as a fast processor, but as a memory system that stores and plays back experiences to help us predict, intelligently, what will happen next."
“Alfred McCoy, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, explores the history and use by the CIA of psychological torture in terms of how this particular form of torture was discovered, perfected and made legal.”
"In this fascinating presentation, The Salk Institute's Terry Sejnowski explores how by its nature the human brain is susceptible to the effects of addictive substances."
"Philosopher Dan Dennett makes a compelling argument that not only don't we understand our own consciousness, but that half the time our brains are actively fooling us."
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“Carl Gustav Jung (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of Analytical psychology. Jung’s approach to psychology has been influential in the field of depth psychology and in countercultural movements across the globe. Jung is considered as the first modern psychologist to state that the human psyche is “by nature religious” and to explore it in depth. He emphasized understanding the psyche through exploring the worlds of dreams, art, mythology, religion and philosophy. Although he was a theoretical psychologist and practicing clinician, much of his life’s work was spent exploring other areas, including Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, sociology, as well as literature and the arts. His most notable ideas include the concept of psychological archetypes, the collective unconscious and synchronicity.” <more>
"Mental health is a significant national issue, yet psychiatry still remains suspect as a science. In fact, psychiatry is said to have a 'split personality,' with the traditional psychiatrists and psychologists on one side and the high-tech medical scientists also called the biomedical psychiatrists on the other side. Do these new techniques tip the scale and put psychiatry into the realm of science and take it out of the realm of philosophy? Nancy C. Andreasen, Editor-in-Chief, The American Journal of Psychiatry; Robert Epstein, Editor-in-Chief, Psychology Today; and Peter Loewenberg, Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute join host Robert Kuhn to debate the science of mental health."
"In an exclusive preview of his book The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds -- and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize."
"UCSD's Charles Zuker explores the neurobiology of taste, smell and vision."
“Chromsome 22q11.2 deletion, Turner, and fragile X syndrome are different genetic disorders producing weakness in visuospatial, visuomotor, and numerical cognition. Tony Simon discusses results from experimental cognitive and brain imaging studies of 7-to-14 year old children with these disorders to see if a common mechanism might be at work.”
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“Author Jonah Lehrer explains why, whether when buying cereal or investing in stocks, people can become paralyzed when faced with too much information. He explains that indecision often leads to “catastrophic consequences,” and sometimes it is simply best to act on instinct.”
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