Psych

University of Cambridge

neuroscience

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Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2014

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psych

Speaker(s): Dr Rachel Cooper, Professor Eileen Munro, Professor Emily Simonoff | The classification, identification and treatment of mental illnesses in children raises particular challenges. For example, what are the appropriate criteria for diagnosing children with a mental disorder? How can we avoid the risk of stigmatisation that some children and their families experience? What are the risks of not identifying mental illness in children and how does it impact on their well-being, self-esteem, academic attainment and social development? Is it true that there is an increased tendency towards medicalizing certain behaviours that might once have been seen as normal (if challenging)? To what extent is it possible to predict which children will experience deficits in physical, psychological and social development due to problematic parenting, and what are the implications for public policy decision making? Rachel Cooper is senior lecturer in philosophy at Lancaster University. Eileen Munro is professor of social policy at LSE. Emily Simonoff is professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at King’s College London. Tue, 19 Nov 2013 18:30:00 GMT

The Ethics of the Cognitive Sciences: children's pathologies [Audio]

Speaker(s): Professor Ray Dolan, Dr Peter Hacker, Professor Nikolas Rose | What if anything, can neuroscience teach us about the mind? Does understanding the biology of the brain help illuminate human emotions, social relationships, decision making or personality? Ray Dolan is Mary Kinross Professor of Neuropsychiatry and director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL. Peter Hacker is emeritus research fellow of St John’s College at the University of Oxford. Nikolas Rose is professor of sociology at King’s College London. Mon, 20 Jan 2014 18:30:00 GMT

The Ethics of the Cognitive Sciences: what can the brain tell us about the mind? [Audio]

Martin Nowak - The Evolution Of Cooperation Master Class 2011

All In The Mind: Psychology and Neuroscience podcast three

Hear how archaeology connects people across time and space using examples from nationally important museums and pioneering outreach projects. Join Drs Carenza Lewis and Jody Joy to explore highlights and legacies of the last ten years’ work inspiring thousands of members of the public to unearth new discoveries to advance knowledge and enjoyment of local heritage. In association with Access Cambridge Archaeology and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology with Curating Cambridge - See more at: http://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/events/time-team-archaeology-all#sthash.XGzqFVMV.dpuf

From Time Team to Archaeology for All

How can we understand the rich and puzzling variety of different sexual desires, ranging from that associated only with exclusive monogamy, through fetishes to the extremes of addiction and desire linked to violence? There is also the phenomenon termed ‘asexuality’: people feeling sexual arousal and a capacity for pleasure but no associated desire directed towards another individual. Some people report sexual disgust. Recent advances in psychology and neuroscience allow the beginnings of an understanding of such a spectrum of tastes in terms of how a few simple processes of the brain/mind can combine in a variety of different ways. Research into the brain’s chemical messengers is also yielding some crucial insights. The Open University’s Professor Frederick Toates digs deeps into our brains to find out more. - See more at: http://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/events/fully-booked-how-sexual-desire-works#sthash.1g9dCSuV.dpuf

How sexual desire works

Cambridge Stars - Richard Hunter, Regius Professor of Greek

Cambridge Stars - Professor Gareth Stedman Jones

Cambridge Stars -Hamid Sabourian, Professor of Economics and Game Theory

The UK’s national academy for the Humanities and Social Science, the British Academy, elects 42 Fellows annually; in 2013, 9 of these were at the University of Cambridge. Join Hans van de Ven, Professor of Modern Chinese History, Christopher Page, Professor of Medieval Music and Literature, and Usha Goswami, Professor of Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience, who will introduce us to their ground-breaking work. - See more at: http://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/events/cambridge-stars-big-ideas-2#sthash.S5KOB9hT.dpuf

Cambridge stars:Usha Goswami, Professor of Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience

On Outlines of Pyrrhonism , Book 1, from around 200 CE.

Are our beliefs warranted? Skeptics following in the footsteps of Pyrrho (who lived just after Aristotle, around 300 BCE, but didn’t leave us any writings, so Sextus, centuries later, has to fill us in) think that for any argument someone puts forward (at least about the nature of reality), you can come up with a plausible counter-argument, and that after you’ve done this enough, you achieve a relaxed state where you you’re satisfied in not being able to decide.

Is this really true? And is there a sharp distinction between beliefs you need to accept in order to live (this is food; that is poison) and theoretical ones? Can a philosopher really get beyond philosophizing in this way? Can one be a scientist and still be a skeptic of this sort? Jessica Berry joins Mark, Wes, and Dylan to defend this position.

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Pyrrhonian Skepticism According to Sextus Empiricus

Vitamin D and light: a close relationship with a lot of controversy. Diet is insufficient in providing vitamin D; however, to make Vitamin D ourselves, we need sunlight, which tends to be in short supply in the UK. The EPIC-Norfolk study observed that participants who had a higher blood vitamin D concentration had a lower risk of developing lung disease, heart disease and fractures. Prof. Kay-Tee Khaw will discuss these findings and shed some light on the question: To D or not to D?

12 March 2015 Vitamin D: To D Or Not To D

In this year's Linacre Lecture at St John's, Professor Sharon Peacock discusses a potential tool that could be used to control bacterial resistance to antibiotics. The Linacre Lecture is an annual presentation on a medical topic that has been given at the College since 1524.

Antimicrobial Resistance In The Genomic Era

Lydia Rutherford, an A-level student from Lodge Park Academy (Corby), interviews Professor Trevor Robbins, Head of Psychology at Cambridge University about drug abuse and dependence.

Lydia Rutherford & Professor Trevor Robbins on drug addiction

Noel Fombanu, an A-Level student from Lodge Park Academy (Corby), interviews Dr David Franklin from Cambridge University's Dept of Engineering about the role that neuroscience has to play in robotics.

Noel Fombanu & Dr David Franklin

Dr Denis Alexander talks to Eleanor Puttock about the new technique of human embryo gene editing, the science behind it, its implications as well as a theological view point. 

To find out more about Dr Denis Alexander go to: http://bit.ly/1T0g7sO

To find out more about The Faraday Institute go to: bit.ly/1AAhTXq

To read the original article "CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing in human tripronuclear zygote" in Protein & Cell go to: http://bit.ly/1EedsFn (subscription required) 

To read the article in Nature "Ethics of embryo editing divides scientists", referred to by Dr Alexander, go to: http://bit.ly/1LM7GQL (subscription required) 

Denis Alexander discusses human embryo gene editing

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Science writer Sam Kean joins Ira live at the Aspen Ideas Festival to talk about the brain injuries that led to some of neuroscience’s biggest breakthroughs. From “H.M.,” who lost his memory during surgery, to Phineas Gage, whose grisly encounter with a tamping iron put him into high school psychology books, Kean explains how the field of neuroscience emerged from stories of brains gone awry.

These Brains Changed Neuroscience

Sapolsky - Coping with stress

Sapolsky - Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

In this session of the Super Data Science Podcast, I chat with Neuroscience PhD Turned Retail Data Analyst Muhsin Karim. You will know what is neuroscience,  learn more about machine learning and discover some surprising implications from Moore’s Law.

If you enjoyed this episode, check out show notes, resources, and more at https://www.superdatascience.com/9

The Super Data Science Podcast: Big Data | Analytics Careers | Mentors | Success

SDS 009 : Neuroscience, Machine Learning and Moore’s Law with Muhsin Karim, Phd

In this episode, “Turning an Experiment into a Paper,” hear about the challenges of telling a cohesive story with data, common writing pitfalls to avoid, and authorship issues and how to navigate them.

Episode 2: Turning an Experiment into a Paper

Science comedian and GGI Fellow Brian Malow interviews the leading science writer of our time -- Carl Zimmer.  This BrainBright podcast is the second in a Bodiesinspace series focusing on discoveries in neuroscience with an emphasis on learning, memory and spatial intelligence!

BrainBright! Spotlighting Neuroscience w/ Carl Zimmer

Speaker(s): Professor Roger Brownsword, Professor Neil Levy, Professor Sir Michael Rutter | Editor's note: Unfortunately the beginning of the chairperson’s introduction is missing from the podcast. Will developments in the neurosciences change our moral and legal notions of criminality and responsibility – and if so, how? Roger Brownsword is professor of law at King's College London. Neil Levy is deputy director of the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics and the Florey Neuroscience Institute, University of Melbourne. Michael Rutter is professor of developmental psychopathology in the MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:30:00 GMT

Neuroscience, Responsibility and the Law [Audio]

Dr. Joop de Jong's lecture of December 11th, 2012, organized by the Institute of Anthropology at Universität Heidelberg. Title: "The Perennial Debate on Culture and Psychopathology: from Inferior Frontal Lobes to Cultural Neuroscience"

In this talk four perspectives on psychopathology that prevailed over the past 150 years will be discussed. The first perspective is the "dichotomous perspective" that focused on either biology or culture as an explanatory model. This perspective was dominant during colonial times and was partially substituted by and overlapped with the second "continuum-perspective" that attributed a "disorder" to the biological, socio-cultural, cognitive, emotional and linguistic aspects of behaviour. The third perspective is the "spectrum-perspective" that filters psychopathology through a prism into divergent behavioural patterns that can be studied. The fourth, which is also the latest and overlaps with the other ones, is the "cultural neuroscientific perspective". Cultural neuroscience tries to answer two main questions: 1) how do cultural traits (e.g., values, beliefs, practices) shape neurobiology (e.g., genetic and neural processes)and behaviour; and 2) how do neurobiological mechanisms (e. g., genetic and neural processes) facilitate the emergence and transmission of cultural traits? This article concludes with an example of traumatic stress disorder showing how cultural neuroscience may help to transcend the dichotomy between universalism and relativism, between nature and nurture, and between genotype and phenotype.