Meeting of Minds: Sex and Stigma

A conversation between Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, the Nobel laureate who discovered the link betweeen the HIV virus and AIDS, and a young female physicist. Barre-Sinoussi discusses social stigma, religion and HIV and how that impeded her research. They both talk about their respective careers, and discrimination faced by women in science. Her advice to young scientists: “Just be persistant. Show them that women in your field can be successful.”

[Image by AMagill.]

The Agencies Method and Cooperative Games

Dr. John Forbes Nash Jr. (probably the world’s most successful person with a diagnosis of schizophrenia) at the Nobel Laureate Meetings at Lindau, 2nd Meeting in Economic Sciences, explaining his prize-winning economic theories.

[Image by neurollero.]

Science Face To Face

Nobel laureate Eric Kandel talks about neuroscience history and his career in this intimate interview conducted for radio and webcast by Ira Flatow.

What it Means to Be Human

Online in five parts, a fascinating panel discussion about what it is to be human, touching on cognitive science, philosophy, genetics, psychology, culture, linguistics, and more. Host Charlie Rose was also adept at assembling some of these same scientists (with others) for a special series on his TV show, here and here. Hat tip to the excellent new Law and Neuroscience Blog and @lawneuro.

Nobelist Daniel Kahneman on Behavioral Economics

The Georgetown 2009 graduation ceremony included this short lecture by psychologist and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman on irrationality and how to promote rational decisions when “coherence is unachievable.” The FORA.tv enhanced player presentation includes an indexed transcript, more info and a bio. Here’s another, longer, 2003 lecture on decision analysis and another on “Deal or No Deal” decisions given at Princeton University in 2008.

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

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

[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

title Neurobiology of Memory: How Do We Acquire, Consolidate and Recall Memory
description “In labs around the world, mice learn to navigate complex mazes, locate chocolaty rewards, and after an interval, run the mazes again with maximum efficiency, swiftly collecting all the sweets. But in Susumu Tonegawa’s lab, the mutant mice he has created cannot perform these tasks. Tonegawa ‘knocks out’ a gene that impairs a specific part of the mouse hippocampus, the area of the brain responsible for spatial memory, among other things. Mutant mice struggle to acquire and recall information about their surroundings. Tonegawa’s work involves manipulating genes to explore memory and learning from the most basic biochemical and cellular levels, up to the most complex behaviors.” Tonegawa is a Nobel Laureate who resigned as head of the Picower Institute after exposure of his sexism. Bet he’d like to purge that from memory.
producer Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT
featuring Susumu Tonegawa
format Real Video
date 01/10/03
length 01:02:40
link http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/148/

Tags: webcast brain lecture learning memory neurobiology neuroscience genetics