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St Edmund Hall Research Expo 2017: Teddy Talks

What Does Philosophy Have to Do with Neuroscience?

When you examine the brain, you can learn a lot and see chemical interactions, but you cannot find anything about the first-person nature of things we experience as humans, such as colours and pain.

The Microbiome and the Brain

An interview with Professor Phil Burnet, who discusses his research into the influence of the gut microbiome on brain health. He talks about novel findings, potential future work, and takes questions from trainee psychiatrists and researchers.

Shakespeare as Observer and Psychologist – Professor Paul Matthews (Fellow by Special Election, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford; Edmond and Lily Safra Chair and Head of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London)

Paul focuses on some of the questions that Shakespeare was asking about the mind, and how the same sorts of issues are approached now by neuroscientists.

Shakespeare, Mind and World – Dr Tom MacFaul (Lecturer in English, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford)

Tom discusses how Shakespeare’s age thought about thinking. In particular, he looks at the transformative power of thought and the idea in some of Shakespeare’s works that the mind is free to create its own world.

Going Viral

Viruses have been a threat to humanity for as long as we have existed. As we make progress in the fight against them, can we also learn to use their tricks to our own advantage

And all this time it dwells behind the door

Annie Freud, the award-winning poet and artist, will talk about where her poems come from, her development as an artist and writer, and the relationship between her poems and paintings.

Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

The tempos of perception in the human brain

NDCN departmental seminar

You've Got a Nerve

In the early 1900s, Charles Sherrington examined microscope slides of muscles, nerves, the spine and the brain and traced the connections between them building a picture of how muscles are controlled. Researchers today still use principles he established.

A spin around the brain

Take a journey around the brain with Ossie from Oxford Sparks. Find out more and read about the science behind the animation at www.oxfordsparks.net/mri.

Education, language and the social brain

A public seminar from the Department of Education, given by Dr Neil Mercer, University of Cambridge.

What Maths Really Does: From modelling the brain to modelling the climate - Alain Goriely

How has mathematics emerged over recent decades as the engine behind 21st century science? Alain Goriely looks at this question and more.

What Maths Really Does: From modelling the brain to modelling the climate

How has mathematics emerged over recent decades as the engine behind 21st century science? Alain Goriely looks at this question and more.

Traumatic Brain Disease in the Military: Past, Present and Future

A review of the fascinating 100 year history of traumatic brain injury in the military and, in particular, its long-term consequences.

Humanities at the Department for Continuing Education

Was Schubert a musical brain?

Prof. Raymond Tallis deepens his argument against the idea that we are our brains. He believes there is a distinction in kind between humans and other animals. This he illustrates by appeal to the differences between the music of Schubert and the singing

Spiders, yes, but why cats?

Prof.Iain McGilchrist illustrates his argument by appeal to a number of paintings done by psychotic patients. He points to various commonalities between these paintings and speculates on the ways in which they support claims about the two hemispheres and

Am I my mind?

Prof. Iain McGilchrist, whilst agreeing with Tallis that we are not our brains argues that we can learn a great deal about our culture by learning more about our brain. In particular we should recognise we have two hemispheres, each with a different funct

Am I my brain?

Prof. Raymond Tallis argues that extraordinary claims have been made for neurophysiology. For example it has been said that a person is nothing but his or her brain. Professor Raymond Tallis rejects this ‘neuromania’. He shows why it is attractive, but al

Suicide Assessment

Professor Hawton is a world leading expert in suicide research. He has written books on the subject and has contributed to UK policy in this area. He speaks to Dr Daniel Maughan about this controversial area of psychiatric research.

A Successful Strategy for Building Normal Brains - Nature or Nurture?

Dr Simon Butt (Keble), Fellow and Tutor in Neuroscience, gives a talk for the Oxford Alumni Weekend.

Creativity Lecture 8: Creativity as a neuroscientific mystery

Prof. Margaret Boden (Philosophy, Sussex) delivers a lecture as part of the Keble College Creativity series.

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