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Synchrony

2009-05-21T01:38:00.000-07:00

title Neural Synchrony and Selective Attention
description In the first official function at the Center for Neuroscience, Robert Desimone of MIT talks about his research in cognitive science. “The very simple process of the initial sensory input resulting in attended stimulus in the brain, seems to require the use of most of the brain,” he says. “It’s given us a lot to try and understand.”
producer BUniverse (Boston University)
featuring Robert Desimone
format Flash
date 28/02/08
length 00:54:43
link http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/buniverse/videos/view/?id=183

Tags: brain video lecture cogsci cognitive neuroscience attention video

Neuroethics Diavlog

2009-05-14T18:30:00.000-07:00

title Brains and Gavels
description The Law and Neuroscience Project and related neuroethics issues, from brain lesions to neuroimaging in court.
producer Bloggingheads.tv
featuring Carl Zimmer, Michael Gazzaniga
format Flash
date 22/02/09
length 01:06:29
link http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/9165

Tags: brain video diavlog interview neuroethics law cog_sci neuroimaging ethics

Autism and School Peers

2009-05-05T22:14:00.000-07:00

title Involvement or Isolation: Research on the Social Lives of Children with Autism at School
description A look at research and case studies of kids diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders and their social experiences at school.
producer U.C. Davis M.I.N.D. Institute
featuring Connie Kasari
format Flash
date 19/05/09
length 00:57:08
link http://www.ucsd.tv/search-details.asp?showID=16234

Tags: brain video lecture autism neurodevelopmental sociology psychology youth education

Stress and Tourette's

2009-04-26T10:22:00.001-07:00

title Evaluating Cortisol, Stress, and Tic Severity in Tourette Syndrome
description An overview of Tourette's syndrome, and discussion of research on the impact of stress and comorbid disorders on this neurological syndrome.
producer U.C. Davis M.I.N.D. Institute
featuring Blythe Corbett
format Flash
date 4/14/09
length 00:58:21
link http://www.ucsd.tv/search-details.asp?showID=16227

Tags: brain video lecture neurology neuropsychology stress tourette neuropsychiatry

Creative Minds

2009-04-16T08:23:00.000-07:00

title Depression and Creativity symposium at the Library of Congress
description With excellent video production quality (but no slides), this webcast "…marks the bicentennial of the birth of German composer Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), who died after a depression, a very severe depression following the death of his sister [Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel]," says Dr. Jamison to open the long unedited video featuring three top speakers. She gives an overview and review of studies on mental illness and creativity, Terence Ketter speaks on related clinical studies and neuroimaging, and Peter Whybrow, Director of UCLA's Semel Institute talks about neurobiological correlates of creativity.
producer Library of Congress
featuring Kay Redfield Jamison, Terence Ketter, Peter Whybrow
format Real Media
date 03/02/09
length 02:04:43
link http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4516

Tags: brain video lecture depression bipolar art neuropsychiatry neuroimaging

Dramatized States of Tara

2009-04-03T18:59:00.000-07:00

title Unraveling the Secret of "Alters"
description Report on the controversial dissociative identity disorder (MPD/DID) and the hit TV drama United States of Tara. Features interviews with various doctors and the show's creator Diablo Cody. Full news transcript and resource links here.
producer Tracy Smith for CBS News
featuring Tracy Smith, Diablo Cody, Richard Kluft, Paul McHugh, Herschel Walker, Mike Wallace, Nadean Cool
format Flash
date 08/03/08
length 00:08:47
link http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/08/sunday/main4852177.shtml

Tags: brain video TV psychiatry psychology

Cheating

2009-03-26T16:03:00.001-07:00

title Dan Ariely: Why we think it's OK to cheat and steal (sometimes)
description Don't trust your intuition, test it, warns Dan Ariely in a newly released TED Talk. The behavioural economist also discusses cheating and how in-groups, accessibility, and tokens (i.e. stock options instead of cash) may have contributed to the recession. An engaging, amusing speaker; also see this 20:00 talk on irrational behaviour
producer TED Talks
featuring Dan Ariely
format Flash, MP4
date 07/02/09
length 00:16:23
link http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/487

Tags: brain video lecture psychology behavioural behavioral economics cheating

Neuroimaging

2009-03-25T21:03:00.000-07:00

title Image of Mind - An Update
description Using MRI and PET to research "human brain organization and function in health and disease."
producer WebComm, George Mason University
featuring Marcus Raichle
format Flash
date 29/05/07
length 00:56:02
link http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7393045011768458913&ei=hhfHSd2RDqCwqAOBpLTbDg

Tags: brain video lecture fmri mri pet neuroimaging neurophysiology

The Bionics Woman: Yoky Matsuoka

2009-03-24T02:51:00.000-07:00

[Image courtesy The Seattle Times]

"I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in technology whom I admire but only if 1,000 other people will do the same." Suw Charman-Anderson made this pledge, launching Ada Lovelace Day with a a huge response.

"Recent research by psychologist Penelope Lockwood discovered that women need to see female role models more than men need to see male ones. That’s a relatively simple problem to begin to address. If women need female role models, let’s come together to highlight the women in technology that we look up to."

Yoky Matsuoka is someone I look up to in every way but physical height. She is brilliant, powerful, charismatic and beautiful too. She redefines "overachiever" while doing tangibly good work for humanity, developing prosthetic arms with neural interfaces. She is a woman leading in tech, and in life.

title Where Humans and Robots Connect
description Yoky Matsuoka talks about her work in neurorobotics, with dexterity, prosthetic hands and brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). She's an entertaining and powerful speaker, opening with amusing anecdotes about her fame as a recipient of a MacArthur "genius grant" fellowship.
producer University of Washington 2008 Engineering Lecture Series
featuring Yoky Matsuoka
format WMV, Quicktime, mp3, mp4
date 21/11/08
length 00:52:21
link http://www.uwtv.org/programs/displayevent.aspx?rID=28097&fID=5879

Even more Yoky! I've posted other videos previously, here (lecture) and here (short MacArthur promo).

Tags: brain video lecture neurorobotics robotics BCI neuroscience fangirl AdaLovelaceDay09

FACS and Lies

2009-03-20T22:32:00.001-07:00

title Conversations with History: Paul Ekman
description Paul Ekman on his career and research with emotions and faces. His Facial Action Coding System (FACS) for microexpressions led to (among other things) the TV drama Lie To Me, in which a gruff researcher (based on Ekman, also a show consultant) and his glamorous employees form The Lightman Group, hired to solve crimes and spot lies. The Neurocritic reveals more.
producer UCTV, University of California Television
featuring Paul Ekman, Harry Kreisler
format Flash
date **/04/04
length 00:56:07
link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA8nYZg4VnI

Lie to Me - Season 1 - "Moral Waiver" - Tim Roth as Cal Lightman, Monica Raymund as Ria Torres and Kelli Williams as Gillian Foster (courtesy Adam Taylor/Fox)

Tags: brain video interview TV psychology microexpressions emotion communication human

Safe Injection Site

2009-03-15T00:11:00.001-07:00

title Staying Alive
description An episode of investigative journalism TV show The Fifth Estate about InSite, a safe injection site in Vancouver's bleak Downtown Eastside. Dr. Gabor Mate, who works in the detox/treatment component of the harm reduction program, sums up why people who have suffered abuse and/or mental illness get mired in cycles of addiction. Stress triggers relapse, while marginalization, stigma and homelessness make it worse. "We've created a system that produces the maximum amount of stress on the people who can least withstand it," he says. Although InSite is supported by two levels of government, police, and dozens of doctors and researchers, the federal Canadian government is threatening to close it down due to their moral qualms rather than evidence. (Open letter signed by 85 scientists: PDF.)
producer CBC
featuring Hana Gartner, Darwin Fisher, Gabor Mate, David Brodrick, Shelly Tomic, Taz Prouting
format Flash
date 13/03/09
length 00:41:34
link http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2008-2009/staying_alive/video.html

Tags: brain video TV addiction mental_health abuse homelessness CanCon

Communicating Free Yale Education

2009-03-10T20:21:00.000-07:00

title How Do We Communicate? Language in the Brain, Mouth and the Hands
description Basics of language: "…introduces students to the major topics within the study of language: phonology, morphology, syntax and recursion. … theories of language acquisition, arguments for the specialization of language, and the commonalities observed in different languages across cultures." Lecture 6 of 20 in the course Introduction to Psychology from Yale Online Creative Commons open learning courses, via Academic Earth. Nifty "dim the lights" function. Transcript.
producer Yale University
featuring Paul Bloom
format Flash
date unknown
length 00:56:31
link http://academicearth.org/lectures/how-do-we-communicate-language

Tags: brain video lecture education linguistics language neurology

Live Colloquium Webcast

2009-03-05T01:23:00.000-08:00

title The BC Mental Health and Addictions Research Network 2009 Research Colloquium
description Live webcast all day Thursday March 5 (begins 9:00 am PST). Scheduled lectures: Professor Peter Beresford (Brunel University, London, UK): New directions in service user engagement in research, Dr. Chris Lalonde (UVic): The influence of cultural continuity on youth health trajectories, Dr. Erin Michalak (UBC): Collaborative research on psychosocial issues in bipolar disorder, Ms. Hajera Rostam (UBC): Marginalized communities and mental health and addiction service providers, and Dr. Amy Salmon (BCCEWH): Strategies for community driven knowledge translation led by and for women with addictions. PDF here. Videos will be archived online after the event.
producer BC Mental Health and Addictions Research Network
featuring Peter Beresford, Chris Lalonde, Erin Michalak, Hajera Rostam, Amy Salmon
format Flash
date 05/03/09
length unknown
link http://www.mhanet.ca/

Tags: brain video lecture mental_health cognitive depression bipolar culture psychiatry addictions treatment cancon

Gender and the Brain

2009-03-01T17:36:00.001-08:00

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title The Gender Puzzle
description Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, genetics, intersex, and gender beyond chromosomes or culture. A pay per view video on demand (PPV VOD) costing one British pound but worth it. An excellent documentary. From the description: "Scientists are now looking beyond chromosomes to 'brain sex' and the role of newly discovered genes. By studying transsexuals and people on the gender extremes, they believe they can unlock the gender puzzle."
producer Janine Cohen, for ABC Australia
featuring Janine Cohen, Christie North & family, Vince Harley, Andrew Sinclair, Louise Newman, Andie Hider & family, Garry Warne, Fintan Harte, Craig Andrews and many more
format Flash
date 17/11/05
length 00:44:50
link http://www.booserver.com/projects.php?ProjectID=2394

Tags: brain video documentary PPV sex gender genetics intersex transsexual transgender bioethics LGBT

Suicide Cry

2009-02-28T02:13:00.001-08:00

title Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child
description Poignant biography inspired by the diary of Richard Cardinal, a Metis teen who committed suicide in 1984. From ages 4 to 17 he was moved between 28 Alberta group and foster homes, and wrote eloquently about neglect and depression. Warning: graphic images.
producer Alanis Obomsawin, National Film Board (NFB)
featuring Alanis Obomsawin, siblings, foster parents
format Flash
date 1986
length 00:29:10
link http://cedar.vodspot.tv/watch/2150288-richard-cardinals-suicide

Tags: brain video documentary suicide abuse child depression cancon nfb canada

Secrets and Powers of the Brain

2009-02-27T00:23:00.000-08:00

title The Ups and Downs of Forgetting
description Part 1 of Unlocking the Secrets and Powers of the Brain, a panel discussion on "the hottest issues in brain research, from predicting human behavior to manipulating memory to pinpointing consciousness" broken into two video players with indexed five minute clips and and interviews with each scientist.
producer Discover, National Science Foundation
featuring Michael Gazzaniga, Daniel Levitan, Rebecca Saxe, Samuel Wang, Carl Zimmer
format Flash
date 12/11/08
length 00:04:48
link http://discovermagazine.com/2009/mar/26-unlocking-brain-secrets-and-powers

Tags: brain video panel interview symposium neuroethics neuroscience brain behaviour memory cog_sci

Depression Damages

2009-02-24T19:42:00.000-08:00

title Structural and functional brain changes in patients with never treated mood disorders
description Neuropsychological studies of people with depression or bipolar, and impairments in youth that may impact development. Cognitive impairments with memory, verbal abilities, and more were found in established illness and in states of remission, and in at risk youth who were asymptomatic or never been affected but had a first-degree relative with a mood disorder. With accompanying PDF and a bio on PDF.
producer BC Mental Health and Addictions Research Network 2008 Research Colloquium
featuring Glenda MacQueen, MD, FRCP(C), PhD
format Flash
date 14/02/08
length 00:58:22
link [BEWARE AUTOPLAY] http://www.mhanet.ca/media/2008-colloquium/2008colloquium-06.html

Tags: brain video lecture cog_sci cognitive depression bipolar neuropsychology neuropsychiatry neurodevelopment youth cancon

Practical and Cute

2009-02-16T20:28:00.000-08:00

title Paro Interaction at Nursing Home
description Series of brief videos featuring Paro the Mental Commit Robot, an early robotic seal companion to patients with Alzheimer's. Paro is modelled after baby harp seals, the type clubbed to death on Canadian ice floes each year to the dismay of many.
producer various
featuring Paro
format wmv
date 2002-2005
length average 00:01:00
link http://paro.jp/?page_id=957
direct video link (to one) http://paro.jp/movie/paro-movie04.wmv

Tags: brain video robot psychology dementia geriatric_psychiatry

Go Carts Go

2009-02-10T22:35:00.000-08:00

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title Carts of Darkness
description Documentary about homeless bottle collectors (binners) who race shopping carts down mountains. Issues involving fetal alcohol syndrome, addictions, and other psychosocial and legal matters.
producer Murray Siple, National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
featuring Murray Siple, Big Al, various binners
format Flash
date 2008
length 00:59:27
link http://www.nfb.ca/film/carts_of_darkness

Tags: brain video documentary doc cancon homelessnss addiction psychosocial law

Pinker's Blank Slate

2009-02-08T22:31:00.000-08:00

title Steven Pinker chalks it up to the blank slate
description Steven Pinker explains why some of the ideas of innate human traits in his book The Blank Slate are controversial. Subtitled and transcribed in English (option to view without, and the original is here) at dotSUB, a multilingual subtitling wiki.
producer TEDTalks, dotSUB
featuring Steven Pinker
format Flash
date **/02/03
length 00:22:19
link http://dotsub.com/view/7ab08bc5-c2f7-40c8-8f01-29b75aa37287

Tags: brain video lecture genetics psychology anthropology

Brave New Words

2009-01-27T18:21:00.000-08:00

title Neuropsychiatric Phenomics: Implications For Future Diagnosis And Treatment
description Neuropsychiatric phenotypes and genomics, informatics, diagnostics and the DSM, biomarkers and "psychiatry of the future." Part of the longstanding, excellent Psychiatry Grand Rounds series (now available for the iPhone), featuring a member of the Semel Institute Consortium for Neuropsychiatric Phenomics. Video quality ranges from so-so to awful, but it's a talk worth listening to.
producer UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
featuring Robert M. Bilder, Ph.D.
format Real Media
date 14/10/08
length 01:03:28
link http://www.psychiatrygrandrounds.com/index08fall.html
direct video link http://mentalhealth.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/av-npi-rs8?gr081014rb

Tags: brain video lecture neuropsychiatry psychiatry neuroscience genomics phenotypes phenomics diagnosis DSM

Smoking and Drinking

2009-01-26T20:03:00.001-08:00

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title Neurobiological Changes as a Result of Chronic Alcohol Consumption and Chronic Smoking
description Self-explanatory title. Cognitive deficits resulting from tobacco smoking, and smoking and drinking together. The combination is correlated with more cortical damage and diminished executive function than drinking alone, and smoking prevents metabolic recovery after quitting alcohol. From the 2007 research colloquium Changing Behaviour, Changing Lives: Alcohol and Co-Occurring Conditions.
producer BC Mental Health and Addictions Research Network
featuring Dieter J. Meyerhoff, Ph.D.
format Flash
date 08/03/07
length approx. 00:24:00
link [BEWARE THE AUTOPLAY] http://mhanet.ca/media/2007-colloquium/2007colloquium-04.html

Tags: brain video lecture addiction alcoholism smoking neurobiology cognitive

Policing and Addiction

2009-01-22T00:18:00.000-08:00

title Through a Blue Lens
description A squad of seven Vancouver Police Department patrol officers carry a video camera on their beat in the skid row Downtown East Side, and interview people about their addictions. The award-winning film was made to shock school children away from trying drugs, but was also controversial with questions about filmmaker ethics, policing and privacy. The well-meaning officers talk about "addictive personalities" (doesn't exist in the DSM-IV) and not underlying causes or treatments of drug abuse, however, their view of the real effects of addiction makes this film quite powerful and unique. One woman shows off very severe (and fresh) scars from delusional parasitosis, digging into her skin at hallucinated bugs.
producer Odd Squad Productions & the National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
featuring Numerous people with addictions, and police members
format Flash
date 1999
length 00:52:13
link http://www.nfb.ca/film/through_a_blue_lens/

Tags: brain video documentary doc addiction law psychology psychosis social homelessness ethics

Designing Minds

2009-01-21T11:43:00.000-08:00

title Design and the elastic mind
description Paola Antonelli of MoMA doesn't focus on molecular changes in the brain, rather social and psychological changes in design that affect its changes. She discusses the exhibit Design and the Elastic Mind.
producer TED Talks
featuring Paola Antonelli
format Flash, MPEG4
date **/12/07
length 00:17:40
link http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/paola_antonelli_previews_design_and_the_elastic_mind.html

Tags: brain video lecture TED psychology cognitive sciart design social interdisciplinary science

Irrational Decisions

2009-01-16T00:39:00.000-08:00

title Dan Ariely: Tendencies of Irrational Behavior
description This Duke University behavioural economist describes cognitive illusions to demonstrate why people make irrational decisions, opting out and defaults. An amusing talk.
producer The Entertainment Gathering, on FORA.tv
featuring Dan Ariely
format Flash
date 13/12/08
length 00:19:56
link http://fora.tv/2008/12/13/Dan_Ariely_Tendencies_of_Irrational_Behavior

Tags: brain video lecture cognitive cog_sci behaviour behavior decisions psychology