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Olde Time Neurobiology

2008-08-28T23:38:00.000-07:00

title Understand Your Emotions
description "We came here to learn about emotions, not play children's games." A 1950 educational psychology film directed at teens of the day. Definitely different than Ekman's basic emotions, and so wrong about the thalamus. Amazingly boring yet comical at the same time, in that special way only time can produce.
producer Coronet Instructional Films
featuring unidentified bad actors
format Flash
date 1950
length 00:12:53
link http://www.archive.org/details/Understa1950

Tags: brain video film education vintage biology psychology conditioning emotions

Bigwig Brains II

2008-08-26T23:15:00.000-07:00

title From Potential of the Mind to Diseases of the Brain
description Top neuroscientists explain their work related to brain diseases in part 12 of the Charlie Rose Science Series. "I believe that there is a place in the spectrum of television for really good conversation, if it is informed, spirited, soulful," said Rose (not in this episode).
producer Charlie Rose "underwritten by Pfizer"
featuring Sir Paul Nurse, Eric Kandel, Helen Mayberg, Catherine Lord, Donald Price
format Flash
date 20/12/07
length 00:55:32
link http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2007/12/20/1/charlie-rose-science-series-from-potential-of-the-mind-to-diseases-of-the-brain

Tags: brain video TV neurology neuroscience pop_science disease memory neuropsychiatry pharma drugs

Bigwig Brains

2008-08-25T22:50:00.000-07:00

title From Freud to the Mysteries of the Human Brain
description Top neuroscientists broadly explain their work in part one of the ambitious Charlie Rose Science Series. "I believe that there is a place in the spectrum of television for really good conversation, if it is informed, spirited, soulful," says Rose.
producer Charlie Rose "underwritten by Pfizer"
featuring Sir Paul Nurse, Eric Kandel, Aaron Beck, Steven Roose, Peter Fonagy, Nancy Kanwisher, Nora Volkow, Rebecca Saxe, Liz Phelps
format Flash
date 31/10/06
length 00:56:40
link http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2006/10/31/1/part-one-of-the-charlie-rose-science-series-from-freud-to-the-mysteries-of-the-human-brain

Tags: brain video TV neurology pop_science disease memory neuropsychiatry drugs pharma

Exuberance!

2008-08-15T17:30:00.000-07:00

title Exuberance: The Passion for Life
description Keynote address at the 19th Annual Conference of Sarah D. Barder Fellows (Teacher Wellness Conference). Examines positive emotions often overlooked by psychology: how exuberance and passion influence society by affecting risk-taking, resilience, achievement, creativity, and teaching. Also looks at exuberance and mania: at what point does passion become pathological? Jamison's an excellent speaker. This talk is based on her book Exuberance: The Passion for Life. I encourage you to read it - I loved it, it's a fantastic and inspiring book!
producer Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (presented by the Research Channel)
featuring Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison
format Flash
date 27/01/07
length 00:56:00
link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoXAK9qbRh4

Tags: brain video lecture psychology positive exuberance bipolar mania sociology achievement science

Combat Resilience

2008-08-14T23:13:00.000-07:00

[Image: photograph and design by Oleg Volk, available on a t-shirt.]

title Shock and Awe: The Conditioned Fear Response of PTSD and Combat Resilient Active Duty Service Members
description A YaleForum talk on the clinical profile, treatment and neuroscience models of PTSD, combat stress and resilience. Includes research from the National Center for PTSD at Westhaven, and some historical war perspective.
producer Yale Psychiatry
featuring Deane Aikins, Ph.D.
format Real Video
date 16/03/07
length 00:59:42
link http://www.med.yale.edu/psych/education/videos.html
direct video link http://media.med.yale.edu:8080/ramgen/psych/lectures/cmhc3_16_07.rm

Tags: brain video lecture PTSD neuroscience stress veterans combat

Chiari I Malformation Surgery

2008-08-04T19:35:00.000-07:00

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title Treatment of Chiari I Malformation
description Bric a brac via Brain Waves (who linked to 17 neurosurgical procedures, free reg re'd). This short, graphic educational video depicts neurosurgery for Chiari I Malformation.
producer SurgyTec
featuring John D. Heiss, M.D.
format Flash
date unknown
length 00:06:50
link http://www.surgytec.com/video/treatment-of-chiari-i-malformation
direct video link http://www.surgytec.com/playvideo.php?video_id=1426

Tags: brain video neurosurgery surgery chiari_I malformation neurology

Psychosis and Music Fest

2008-08-04T02:55:00.001-07:00

[Drs. Shitij Kapur and Akira Sawa at the event, opening for singer Gladys Knight. Sawa was presented with a "Rising Star" award for his work with knockout mice schizophrenia genetics and gave an abundant technical talk.]

title The Story of Psychosis: Lessons from Mice, Men and Molecules
description Presentation at a posh Napa Valley mental health fundraiser (the next event is on Sept 13). The history of psychosis treatments, chlorpromazine then neuroleptics/antipsychotics since, PET scanning to calibrate dosage, plus cognitive and emotional aspects of psychosis.
producer Staglin Music Festival for Mental Health
featuring Dr. Shitij Kapur
format Flash
date 08/09/07
length 00:41:51
link http://www.music-festival.org/psychosis_story.html

Tags: brain video lecture psychosis PET neuroimaging neuropsychiatry antipsychotic mental_health

Molecular Bipolar

2008-07-31T23:12:00.001-07:00

title Neuronal Plasticity Cascades: Genes to Behavior Pathways in the Pathophysiology and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder
description Moving away from the touchy-feely stuff, let's get molecular. A leading expert on bipolar disorder discusses neuronal cascades from gene expression to receptors to behaviours to drugs to plasticity, with a look at recent innovative research into tamoxifen, AMPA and NMDA antagonists (like ketamine) and why ketamine may be more effective than SSRIs. Also: using high-density EEG and MEG to detect synaptic changes, gene expression and cellular plasticity, neuroprotective proteins and mood stabilizers, micro RNA binding and more. Snappy talk on cutting edge topics.
producer Seventh International Conference on Bipolar Disorder at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
featuring Husseini Manji, MD
format custom player with slides
date 07/06/07
length approx. 00:30:00
link http://www.wpic.pitt.edu/stanley/7thbipconf/Multimedia_Presentations.htm
direct video link http://medicalmedia.upmc.com/webtraining/wpic/bipolar2007/manji0607071030b/f.htm

Tags: brain video lecture bipolar molecular neurophysiology psychopharmacology neuropsychiatry plasticity genetics

Wallace on Depression

2008-07-24T22:39:00.000-07:00

title Mike Wallace on Depression
description Public TV production about a disorder that is common but misunderstood. News veteran Mike and wife Mary Wallace on his depression, hope and treatment. This episode was one of three from the Health Minds series on mental health to win a gold Telly Award.
producer Theresa Statz-Smith and Mary Puma of Healthy Minds for PBS affiliate WLIW21 and NARSAD
featuring Mike Wallace, Mary Wallace, Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein
format Flash
date 2006
length approx 00:25:00
link http://www.narsad.org/news/video/healthyminds_video1.html

Tags: brain video TV depression consumer mental_health Telly Award

Affect Effects

2008-07-24T18:11:00.000-07:00

title General and Specific Cognitive Deficits in Bipolar Depression
description Scores on neurpsychological cognitive tests by people with bipolar depression.
producer Seventh International Conference on Bipolar Disorder at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
featuring Richard Keefe PhD
format Real Video (embedded in custom player with slides)
date 08/06/07
length 00:16:37
link http://medicalmedia.upmc.com/webtraining/wpic/bipolar2007/keefe060807245e/

Tags: brain video lecture bipolar cognitive psychology

Gender and Science

2008-07-16T21:01:00.000-07:00

[Image: from the Gender Subversion Poster Kit (and colouring book)]

title The Science of Gender and Science: A Conversation with Steven Pinker and Elizabeth Spelke
description The two Professors of Psychology at Harvard discuss controversial issues of gender and science. Sociology, psychology and biology. Transcript here.
producer Harvard Mind/Brain/Behavior with Edge.org
featuring Elizabeth Spelke, Steven Pinker
format Quicktime, mp3
date 22/04/05
length 02:05:29
link http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/debate05/debate05_index.html
direct video link http://mbb.harvard.edu/videos/spelke384K_Stream.mov

Tags: brain video cognitive psychology science gender sex sociology

Neurobotics

2008-07-08T20:10:00.000-07:00

[Image: Yoky Matsuoka on top of the world in Colorado. From an old staff page, before her move to U of Washington.

title Sensory Feedback: Lessons From Robots
description Macarthur Fellow (and Guinness record holder) Matsuoka is a robotics and neuroscience star, working mainly with robotic prosthetics. Here she discusses dexterity and control, together with recent progress in neurorobotics and interfaces.
producer Neural Interfaces Conference
featuring Yoky Matsuoka
format Flash
date 18/06/08
length 00:28:37
link http://mediavision.case.edu/neuralinterfaces2008/default.cfm?vid=040

Tags: brain video webcast robotics robots psychology neuroscience neurobotics neurorobotics neurotech

Remembering Bebe

2008-07-07T22:12:00.000-07:00

title Global Lens Interviews Bebe Moore Campbell
description The successful author discusses her novel 72 Hour Hold, her experience with depression, and NAMI activism. Part 1 and Part 2 here (download the MPEG4s, there's something wrong with the vodcast links). I'm presenting these videos to celebrate July 2008 as Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month (as officially proclaimed in America). Bebe suffered from recurrent depression, and died of brain cancer in 2006. She was a mental health advocate for NAMI and won an award for her children's book Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry about a young girl whose mother has bipolar disorder.
producer Global Lens
featuring Bebe Moore Campbell, Ashok Gangadean
format MPEG4
date 05/07/06
length 00:13:36 (in two parts)
link http://www.immaginehdv.com/library.php?i=2

Tags: brain video vodcast depression mental_health bipolar advocacy stigma cancer

Oh Happiness

2008-07-02T23:42:00.000-07:00

title How to be Happy
description Positive psychology and Laughter Yoga under scientific and Canadian television scrutiny.
producer CBC
featuring Ann-Marie MacDonald, Senia Maymin, Dr. Ed Diener, Robert Biswas-Diener, Chris Peterson, Dr. John Zelenski, Dr. Martin Seligman, Dr. Ilona Boniwell, Dr. Carol Kauffman
format WMV
date 14/02/08
length 00:41:53
link http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/howtobehappy/index.html

Tags: brain video TV documentary psychology laughter yoga happiness positive Cancon

Scents

2008-07-01T15:47:00.000-07:00

[Image: Richard Axel photo by Hans Mehlin in P&S]

title Scents and Sensibility: Towards a Molecular Logic of Perception
description The 250th Anniversary of Columbia University (Columbia250) in 2004 seemed a grand event, and it's well-documented online. Among the symposia is Brain and Mind. It attracted many prestigious speakers including Nobel laureates Richard Axel and Eric Kandel. The last speaker I featured, however, wasn't a laureate (d'oh!) but he collaborated with a very famous one, Francis Crick. Richard Axel and Linda Buck were co-awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2004 for their work discovering and exploring olfactory neurons, an exciting and comparatively understudied microfield of neuroscience. Axel describes aspects in this lecture, and you can watch hers (PDF) and his (PDF) Nobel Lectures. I've featured hers on Channel N previously, it's very interesting. All three of these lectures are well worth viewing if you can spare an evening.
producer Columbia University
featuring Richard Axel
format Real Video
date 13/05/04
length 00:42:50
link http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_events/symposia/brain_mind/brain_mind_vid_archive.html
PDF link http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_events/symposia/brain_mind/transcripts/bm1_axel.pdf

Tags: brain video lecture olfactory neuroscience smell scents neurobiology nobel laureate

Basis of Consciousness

2008-07-01T01:06:00.000-07:00

[Image: Christof Koch, with Apple logo tattoo. Via his home page.]

title Christof Koch: Towards the Neuronal Basis of Consciousness
description Peppy yet dense talk at the Columbia 250 Brain and Mind symposium. The lecture is indexed into 11 brief "chapters" (navigating is not great). incuding "recording single neurons in conscious humans," chapters on zombies, motion-induced blindness, flash suppression, and more. Accompanied by slides, a transcript pdf, and a link to a NYT profile of Koch and Crick.
producer Columbia University
featuring Christof Koch, Ph.D.
format Real Video
date 13/05/04
length 00:58:15
link http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_events/symposia/brain_mind/brain_mind_vid_archive.html

Tags: brain video lecture consciousness attention visual pereption cognitive neurobiology science_tattoo

Asperger's

2008-06-22T13:21:00.000-07:00

[Image: autism awareness puzzle ring from Autism Link.]

title High-Functioning Autism and Asperger's Syndrome: Diagnosis, Current Research, and Treatment Options
description Expert clinicians and researchers clarify the differences between HFA, Asperger's and other types of autism, as well as how to support children and adults to achieve an optimal successful life. Presented for the layperson but still quite in-depth and technical.
producer University of California M.I.N.D. Institute
featuring John Brown, Ph.D., Marjorie Solomon, Ph.D., MBA, & Sally Ozonoff, Ph.D.
format Quicktime, WMV
date 17/04/08
length 01:36:16
link http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/mindinstitute/events/behind_recorded_events.html
direct video link http://media.mindinstitute.org/video/minds/mov/aspergers_2008_minds.mov

Tags: brain video vodcast autism aspergers HFA neurobiology neurodevelopment

Mental Imagery

2008-06-18T20:44:00.000-07:00

[Image: Cover of The Case for Mental Imagery by Stephen Kosslyn with co-authors William Thompson and Giorgio Ganis. One of many cool books he's written, including the must-read Clear and To The Point on psychological design of PowerPoint presentations.]

title What Shape are a German Shepherd's Ears?
description Mental imagery and visualizing, preconceptions and perceptions, social cognition, how mental imagery affects your body and visual simulations that manipulate it.
producer Edge Video
featuring Stephen Kosslyn
format Quicktime
date 16/07/02
length 00:10:18
link http://www.edge.org/video/56k/kosslyn.html

Tags: brain video social cognitive cog_sci visualization imagery perception simulation

Drosophila Operant Learning

2008-06-17T12:51:00.000-07:00

title Operant learning of Drosophila at the torque meter
description A new pubcast at the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), Issue 16, explaining procedures used for experiments in operant conditioning and Drosophila (fruit flies). Indexed into eight sections, with accompanying text in HTML and PDF. doi: 10.3791/731
producer Bjoern Brembs, Department of Neurobiology, Free University of Berlin and JoVE
featuring Dr. Bjoern Brembs
format Flash (in JoVE Video Player 4.0)
date 16/06/08
length 00:17:31
link http://www.jove.com/index/details.stp?id=731

Tags: brain video pubcast vodcast neuroethology neurobiology operant drosophila JoVE

Encephalon 47

2008-06-09T02:11:00.001-07:00

For this videotastic edition of Encephalon, the brain science blog carnival, I did a little outreach to a video maker. Neuroethologist Bjoern Brembs of Brembs.net is adept at science 2.0, contributing to SciVee, and soon publishing in the cutting edge Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) with a pubcast on spontaneous behaviour in drosophila that elaborates on his well-known publications. Here's a fresh animation depicting the Drosophila Flight Simulator (00:04:08).

Bloggingheads.tv associate editor David Killoren sends in a diavlog (split-screen webcam interview) on an always-popular subject, Free Will: Happiness and the Foundations of Morality. Will Wilkinson joins Jonathan Haidt to discuss the issues. The full interview is an hour long, but Killoren recommends an "especially engaging (to me) clip, in which Haidt argues that morality is a 'big, complicated mess of human instinct' with more than one foundation." The clip is below, or watch it all here.

Aside from my intentional emphasis on neuro-related videos, a theme has emerged from the Encephalon contributions I've received: food. Does calorie restriction allow us to live longer? Ouroboros contributes some thoughtful arguments in Of mice and men: Deleterious psychological effects of CR may be limited to rodents. Chris Patil criticizes the CALERIE study on psychological effects of calorie restriction (CR). Previous studies in rodents showed that extreme CR brought on anhedonia, however, early results from CALERIE seem to indicate that a 25% CR in healthy subjects has no psychological effects.

Another videographer's submission, that also relates to food, comes from Laura Collins of the blog Are You 'Eating With Your Anorexic'? She asks, Are parents to blame for eating disorders? (00:03:24) The experts she interviews say no, emphasizing that anorexia is a brain disorder. Collins advocates the "family-based Maudsley approach" to treatment.

Even if there isn't direct causation, family exacerbates the problem sometimes. This was almost certainly the case with singer Karen Carpenter, who died of anorexia. The very-banned 1987 film Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story by Todd Haynes depicts her life and illness. He was sued by her brother and by their record company and the film will not be legally distributed again, but lo, here's a torrent, here's another link, and it's on Google video below (00:43:19). Superstar is unique in using Barbie-like dolls as actors. You might not imagine that method would create such sympathy and poignancy, but it's a brilliant and powerful film. It's also the most badass thing you'll likely see here on Channel N - watch it before someone threatens to sue me.

To control food intake in a far healthier way, Walter Jessen of Highlight Health explains how Remembering lunch can help reduce the desire to snack. "Mind over matter may really work when it comes to managing appetite. Researchers at the University of Birmingham, U.K. have found that recalling foods eaten at lunch has an inhibitory effect on subsequent snacking later the same day."

Enough about food. Are placebos easy to swallow? Superblogger Vaughan Bell of Mind Hacks begins with a NYT article on a company marketing placebos to discuss the phenomenon of the placebo effect in his cleverly-titled post Placebo is not what people think. He corrects some common assumptions and reveals the ethical dilemma of doctors using placebos (with or without the patient's knowledge). So does bioethicist law professor Adam Kolber of the Neuroethics and Law blog who wrote a great post on Placebo deception of children, and an in-depth paper titled A Limited Defense of Clinical Placebo Deception. It's free for download.

Vaughan also lends a link to a vintage video featuring renowned psychologist Albert Bandura explaining his 1961 experiment on social learning and aggression in children. The post Battering Bobo supplies some background, and here's the video (00:05:03):

Kylie S. of the PodBlack Blog compares past to present in her comprehensive post Classic science paper - Belief in fortune telling amongst college students. "Although times have changed, much has not when it comes to belief in fortune tellers. Thankfully, we can now see how a variety of factors influence how we think about weird things and may even have a chance to do more in comparison to a 1930s paper on college students' beliefs."

A Mormon/LDS pediatric neurology resident who invites us to call him Doc discusses Modern medicine for manipulation of the mind in his blog Mind, Soul and Body. His subject is the hormone oxytocin, produced during reproductive functions, which promotes bonding and trust. Experiments have demonstrated that boosting oxytocin levels lead to people being more easily manipulated in economic games. Fortunately, he points out, there is no way to surreptitiously dose someone with oxytocin. (I will add that those "trust sprays" on the market are useless.)

ScienceBlogger Jake Young of Pure Pedantry writes a great research summary in his post The use of adjuvants in Alzheimer's. Nasally-administered Protollin and glatiramer acetate, basically immune activators for microglia, dramatically reduced the ABeta plaque (or "molecular crud") that accompanies the disease. He cautions that the study is limited to rats, but is still promising. For prospective Alzheimer's drugs, it's all about location, location, location is a post that looks at other drug research aimed at reducing ABeta production: in this case enzyme inhibitors. In both entries Jake does a fantastic job of distilling complicated molecular biology for the layperson while remaining just as informative for students and professionals.

Is the pleasure molecule dopamine? Mike of the Brain Stimulant blog poses that question and covers relevant research by Kent Berridge and others, concluding that the brain is too complex to reach conclusions about it.

Mo Costandi of Neurophilosophy sends in three posts. Socializing promotes survival of new nerve cells and may preserve memory, in songbirds at least, and a new study described in the NYT speculates on a link. Growing new brain cells to treat depression follows a press release from San Diego-based pharmaceuticals company BrainCells Inc. announcing clinical trials of their proprietary technology BCI-540 in a quest to stimulate neurogenesis as treatment for depression. (Note: oddly, the clinical trials will take place exclusively at sites in Canada. Possibly this is due to American politics surrounding stem cells but the company has not divulged sufficient info to speculate.) The third post, Channelrhodopsin restores vision in blind mice, reports on an exciting new study in Nature Neuroscience. Mice lacking photoreceptors had a photosensitive protein gene found in green algae introduced to cells in the retina, which made them re-sensitive to light. Senior author Connie Cepko comments on his post, clarifying that the introduced gene did not integrate into the chromosomes.

Two entries are offered up from the group blog Brain Blogger. Neuroscience: Psychotherapy's Executioner by Jared Tanner calls for a balance between dualism and "monoism." The Bipolar Trend by J.R. White discusses the assertion that bipolar disorder is overdiagnosed. You can find my opinion on the subject in the comments on that post, since J.R. solicited me to comment on it. I answered before I realized he was spamming a lot of other bloggers to do the same. J.R., please don't do that, it's not nice.

Neuroanthropology is another group blog, today contributing three posts. Cultural aspects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Thinking on meaning and risk is written by their newest blogger, Erin Finley. It's an interesting peek at her work studying PTSD and depression in American veterans. Synaesthesia & metaphor: I'm not feeling it by Greg Downey criticizes major league neurologist V.S. Ramachandran. Downey says, "The problem is that I don’t think that synesthesia is a good metaphor for, well, metaphor." He is also sceptical about a NYT article that many bloggers have written about,The Science of Sarcasm (Not That You Care). In Lessons from sarcasm (so useful) he points out that the perception of sarcasm varies by culture and may be related to their style of humour, and wonders how that might affect results.

Meanwhile, Steve Higgins at Of Two Minds found the most accurate infographic ever on the process of sarcasm and the brain. Our neuroblog-sovereign of sarcasm The Neurocritic also has snide words in Oh great. Now we know what the right parahippocampal gyrus does.

Alvaro Fernandez of Sharp Brains looks at Executive functions, education and Alzheimer's disease. He connects a Newsweek article on the importance of executive functions (attentional control over behaviour) for students to a news item on the decline of those functions with Alzheimer's. As well, Dr. Janice Dorn offers a well-written piece about "Behavioral NeuroFinance" titled This is your brain on trading. Dorn discloses some traits of stock traders, who must excel at quick decision-making, and how they have trained to become experts.

The Neurocritic exhibits some fabulous artwork from BRAINWAVE: Common Senses, a group show about representations of mind and brain, held at New York's Exit Art gallery. Watch an interview with the curator. Works range from Suzanne Anker's juxtaposition of 3D Rorschach ink blots (iconic to the public, but not used in contemporary clinical psychology) with butterflies and MRI brain scans, to Fernando Orellana and Brendan Burns' robot performing Sleep Waking (00:02:51). "Using recorded brainwave activity and eye movements during REM sleep to determine robot behaviors and head positioning, 'Sleep Waking' acts as a way to 'play-back' dreams. Through this piece we hope to investigate one of the possible human-robot relationships."

One last video link… a cool blogger got engaged this week (there's no public announcement yet, so I'll won't mention any names). Here's a classic video on the psychology of setting goals in a relationship. Congratulations!

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Neuroanthropology hosts the next edition of Encephalon on June 23. Your submissions are welcomed via encephalon.host @ gmail.com.

Neurobiology of Autism

2008-06-04T14:18:00.000-07:00

title The Reshaping of the Neurobiology of Autism
description In the keynote address from the 2007 Summer Institute on Neurodevelopmental Disorders, neurologist Nancy Minshew discusses how and why autism is a multisystems disorder, how it's diagnosed, and functioning. She rambles a bit (admittedly sleep deprived) but it's a very good talk that includes some funny moments and practical advice for caregivers. (She runs a Center for Excellence in autism, is highly regarded in her field and has over 20 years experience, but vaccine conspiracy theorist alties have rabidly smeared her online and off. She is angrily attacked during the Q&A here too.)
producer University of California Davis M.I.N.D. Institute
featuring Nancy Minshew, MD
format WMV, Quicktime
date 02/08/07
length 01:09:45
link http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/mindinstitute/events/si_recorded_events.html
direct video link http://media.mindinstitute.org/video/suminst/2007/mov/minshew_2007_suminst.m4v

Tags: brain video lecture neurology autism neurobiology

Mindfulness Meditation

2008-05-29T19:28:00.000-07:00

title Cognitive Neuroscience of Mindfulness Meditation
description Mindfulness meditation is very hot topic right now, and this talk outlines some of the basics. It focusses on mindfulness as related to Social Anxiety Disorder, with a sprinkling of neuroscience, and is geared to a lay audience (in this case, Google staff).
producer Google Tech Talks
featuring Philippe Goldin
format Flash
date 28/02/08
length 00:48:53
link http://youtube.com/watch?v=sf6Q0G1iHBI

Tags: brain video vodcast lecture mindfulness anxiety neuroimaging

Never-Treated Mood Disorders

2008-05-22T20:14:00.000-07:00

title Structural and functional brain changes in patients with never treated mood disorders
description At the MHA 2008 Research Colloquium, Dr. MacQueen speaks about cognitive deficits that accompany never treated mood disorders, how they impact on education, and touches on some long-term consequences (i.e. she says low education is a bigger predictor of heart attack than lipids, cholesterol and smoking combined!) of ignoring the problem. She discusses both structural and functional changes in the brain, and hippocampal-dependent learning and memory impairments.
producer BC Mental Health and Addictions Research Network
featuring Glenda MacQueen, MD, FRCP(C), PhD
format Flash
date 14/02/08
length 00:58:22
link http://www.mhanet.ca/media/2008-colloquium/2008colloquium-06.html
link to PDF presentation http://www.mhanet.ca/documents/2008/Research-Colloquium/1330%20-%20MACQUEEEN%20V2.pdf

Tags: brain video lecture cognitive memory hippocampus depression bipolar mood_disorders youth education CanCon

Paranoid Thoughts

2008-05-19T22:20:00.000-07:00

[Image: a still from the simulation, this female avatar is programmed to look up at you if you look at her long enough.]

title Paranoia on the Tube
description A video press release by Daniel Freeman on his research using VR avatars to simulate social conditions on London's tube, or subway, and finding that nearly a third of participants had some self-reported paranoid thoughts. Predictors included inflexible thinking and anxiety. His conclusion is that paranoid thoughts are not confined to serious mental illness, they are more common. He speaks well and you can watch the VR simulation as he describes elements of it. In his BJP abstract he says, "The use of virtual reality should lead to rapid advances in the understanding of paranoia." Let's see more, then.
producer Wellcome Trust
featuring Dr. Daniel Freeman
format Flash
date 01/04/08
length near 00:04:00
link http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/Media-office/Press-releases/2008/WTD039337.htm

Thank you Mind Hacks for prompting me to look for the VR video.

Tags: brain video vod research VR avatar paranoia social psychology psychiatry tube London

Damasio on Emotion

2008-05-15T05:03:00.000-07:00

[Image: portrait of Antonio Damasio, from Conscious Entities.]

title Advances on the Neurobiology of Emotion: Taking Stock
description In a long, slightly muffled lecture, the legendary Antonio Damasio talks about issues to do with emotions and the brain, spanning his career and looking forward.
producer Princeton University
featuring Antonio Damasio
format Real Video or WMV
date 16/11/06
length 01:44:30
link http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/lectures/
direct video link http://realserver.princeton.edu:8080/ramgen/lectures/20061116damasioVN350K.rm
direct video link http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/lectures/20061116damasioVN350K.asx

Tags: brain video lecture neurobiology emotion neuroimaging lecture