Ken Paller, PhD (Northwestern University) pitches his lab’s pioneering work seeking to answer the question: Can we establish real-time, two-way communication with lucid dreamers? Paller and fellow investigator Karen Konkoly are based in Paller’s Cognitive Neuroscience...
BrainStorm 2018 winner Subbulakshmi Sankarasubramanian (University of Cambridge) gives the audience an exciting update on work being done in Michael Anderson’s lab to try and suppress traumatic memories that cause emotional pain. For the 2018 Competition they...
Dr. Wendy Chung joined the Mind Science Foundation on November 6, 2018 at the Pearl Stable in San Antonio, TX to discuss: Why does my child have autism? Geneticist Dr. Chung shares what we know about the autism spectrum disorder and how it isn’t a single condition...
What is different about the brain of addicts even before they pick up a drink or drug? Join Judith Grisel, PhD (Bucknell), a behavioral neuroscientist and recovering addict, as she reveals what she and other scientists have discovered about the inner workings of...
Just what IS going on in the teen brain? Developmental neuroscientist Dr. Abigail Baird 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...
