World-renowned illusionist Mark Mitton delights and awes the crowd with interactive perception-versus-reality ‘tricks’ while audience votes are being tallied for the winner of BrainStorm 2018. Mark Mitton is a professional magician who is fascinated by using magic to...
Just what IS going on in the teen brain? Join Abigail Baird, PhD (Vassar) as she shares how the neurological growth spurt of adolescence dictates how we learn to consolidate, generalize and then (at light speed) make use of our experiences to navigate our every day...
Isolation impacts us all, but what happens when it’s compounded with managing an addiction? While routines are disrupted, we may find ourselves more vulnerable to falling into old habits – or developing new ones. In this session, neuroscientist and...
David Linden, PhD and Julia Brill, PhD (The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine) pitch their innovative work exploring the question: How do cold temperatures protect the brain in oxygen-deprived conditions like cold-water drownings or cardiac surgeries that necessitate...
How do we perceive the world? Is our reality just a series of controlled hallucinations? Anil Seth, PhD (University of Sussex), Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, reveals the role hallucinations play in our reality, and explores the idea of the...
