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...
Life is short. The brain is tricky. Sometimes, the natural way we respond to a problem actually locks it in…and because it may be possible to work around problems, it can be easy to allow them to stay. Why do problems stick around and how much better could life...
