• Title: Stephen Pinker interviewed by Robert Wright
• Description: In-depth interview focussing on evolutionary psychology, but he also discusses his hairstyle.
• Producer: Slate
• Featuring: Stephen Pinker
• Format: embedded Windows Media and RealMedia
• Date: 2006
• Length: 00:59:03
• Link: http://tinyurl.com/fvrc4

Tags: webcast brain evolutionary psychology

One of a collection of videos at the Library of Congress from the 2005 neuroethics conference Hard Science, Hard Choices: Ethical Questions & Public Policies For the Emergent Science of the Brain.

• Title: Deep Brain Stimulation And Other Brain Technologies
• Description: “In May 2005, the Library of Congress, the Dana Foundation, Columbia University, and the National Institute of Mental Health gathered leaders in neuroscience and ethics to discuss the rights and wrongs of using or not using new therapies and enhancements. By defining the most advanced and promising research findings, the conference sought to dispel public confusion about what brain science today can and cannot do.”
• Producer: Library of Congress
• Featuring: Gerald Fischbach, Andres Lozano, John Donoghue, Mahlon DeLong, Robert Goodman, Dennis Spencer, William Heetderks, Mary Faith Marshall, Paul Root Wolpe
• Format: RealMedia
• Date: 10/05/05
• Length: 01:49:00
• Link: http://loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3715

Tags: webcast brain neurotech dbs neuroethics

A bit more serious than a singing cartoon mouse:

• Title: Brain Development
• Description: “UCSD cognitive scientist Joan Stiles reveals the latest understandings about the intricate relationship between biology and external influences in the development of the brain.”
• Producer: UCSD-TV
• Featuring: Joan Stiles
• Format: RealVideo
• Date: 22/03/06
• Length: 00:58:00
• Link: http://www.ucsd.tv/schedule/index.asp?keyword=11188

Tags: webcast brain neurobiology development

• Title: Pinky and The Brain – Brainstem
• Description: Animated neuroanatomy song and dance by a mouse. Funny but accurate. Link to German version as well.
• Producer: unknown
• Featuring: Pinky and The Brain
• Format: embedded/YouTube
• Date: unknown
• Length: 00:01:22
• Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7HnKBjz1B4

Tags: animation brain comedy neuroanatomy

The Lowdown vlog features a Valentine’s video on basics of the neurochemistry of love A very popular Valentine’s story (now on par with the neurochemistry of chocolate canard), this is a videoblogging take on it. It’s hip and fresh to do a vlog on neuroscience with a graffiti background.

• Title: The Lowdown 018
• Description: “Tom gives you the lowdown on what ‘love’ is, on more then the heartfelt, mushy mushy level. Move aside broken hearts and empty souls and make room for chemical imbalance, mental strain and depression!”
• Producer: Webtertainment.tv
• Featuring: Tom
• Format: mpeg4 and Quicktime
• Date: 14/02/05
• Length: 00:03:07
• Link: http://www.webtertainment.tv/thelowdown/LD18.html

Tags: webcast brain vlog neuromanticism neuropsychology

Today, a short sci-art film.

• Title: Mapping Perception
• Description: “MAPPING PERCEPTION examines the limits of human perception through an investigation of impaired brain function [Joubert Syndrome], making visible the connections between scientific and artistic explorations of the human condition, probing the thin membrane between the able and the disabled.”
• Producer: “Giles Lane, curator and producer (Proboscis), Andrew Kötting, the acclaimed director of Gallivant and This Filthy Earth, and Mark Lythgoe, neurophysiologist at the Institute of Child Health, London with the participation of Eden Kötting.” For his efforts, Lythgoe won the prestigious Dorothy Hodgkin Award Lecture by the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
• Featuring: Eden Kotting, Dudley Sutton, Benji Ming, Leila McMillan, Andrew Kotting, Mark Lythgoe and Billie McKloed Kotting
• Format: Quicktime online; offline available PAL & NTSC VHS videos (with book and cd-rom) or 35 mm film
• Date: May 2002
• Length: 00:37:00 (clips online vary)
• Link: http://www.mappingperception.org.uk

Tags: webcast multimedia neuroimaging perception Joubert Syndrome brain