April 4, 2019 David Nutt is currently the Edmond J. Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology and director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit in the Division of Brain [...]
Psilocybin: Implications for healthy psychological functioning and therapeutics (Roland Griffiths)
PLEASE NOTE: You may notice that the last five minutes or so of the video is different than the rest. This is due to technical [...]
Addiction is a brain disease and it still matters (Alan Leshner)
Dr. Leshner served as CEO of AAAS, the world's largest, multi-disciplinary scientific and engineering society, and Executive Publisher of its journal Science from 2001 until [...]
7th Annual GVR Khodadad Lecture – “From Selfish to Selfless: the Psychopharmacology of Human Altruism” (Molly Crockett)
Molly Crockett is an assistant professor of psychology at Yale University and a distinguished research fellow at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics. Prior to joining [...]
Making addiction a brain disease: A social history of addiction neuroscience (Nancy Campbell)
Professor Nancy Campbell is a Professor and the Department Head of the Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) in the School of Humanities, Arts [...]
For Better or Worse: Society’s Impact on the Developing Brain (Allyson Mackey PhD)
Allyson Mackey PhD is interested in how changes in the brain give rise to changes in the mind, both as development unfolds, and in response [...]
Genetics, Social Class, and Education in Child Development (Elliot Tucker Drob PhD)
Elliot Tucker-Drob received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Virginia. He has held fellowships at Harvard Medical School and the Max Planck Institute [...]
The Development of Neuro Cognitive Systems Underpinning Callous Unemotional Traits and Antisocial Behavior (James Blair PhD)
James Blair, Ph.D. is Chief of the Unit on Affective Cognitive Neuroscience in the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program of the National Institute of Mental [...]
Childhood Recovered: Manipulating Brain Plasticity (Takao Hensch PhD)
Takao K. Hensch, PhD, is joint professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School at Boston Children’s Hospital, and professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard’s [...]
Adolescent Brain Science and Legal Policy in Retrospect and Prospect (Laurence Steinberg Ph.D.)
Laurence Steinberg, Ph.D., one of the world's leading experts on adolescence, is a Distinguished University Professor and the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology at [...]
Intergroup Conflict and Conciliation: Insights from Psychology and Neuroscience (Rebecca Saxe, PhD)
How do people understand each other, develop and change attitudes toward each other, and solve problems together? How are these processes influenced by group identity [...]
Health Inequalities as Problem for Neuroscience (Peter Gianaros, PhD)
Why do poor people suffer with more chronic diseases and die at younger ages? Psychosocial stress is a big part of the answer, and of [...]
What’s New in Neurolaw (David Eagleman, PhD)
David Eagleman is a neuroscientist and a New York Times bestselling author. He directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action at the Baylor College of [...]
Brain Training: Current Challenges and Potential Resolutions (Susanne Jaeggi, PhD)
Susanne Jaeggi investigates working memory and executive control across the lifespan with behavioral and neuroimaging methods. Dr. Jaeggi is known for her research on whether [...]
Magic or Tragic? The Use of Animals in Research (Prof. Colin Blakemore, PhD)
Colin Blakemore's body of work is concerned with many aspects of vision, the early development of the brain and plasticity of the cerebral cortex. He [...]
Brains on Show: Neuroscience in the Visual Arts (Hugo Spiers, PhD)
No realm of life is left unexplored by artists. A myriad of forms and objects are explored, but one object is different. Unlike all other [...]
The Neuroscience of Enhancement: A Framework for Ethical Analysis (William Casebeer, PhD)
William Casebeer, PhD is well known for his work in neuroethics, the evolution of morality, the intersections of cognitive science and national security policy, philosophy [...]
Neurophilosophy and the Origin of Moral Practices (Patricia Churchland)
Patricia Churchland, D.Litt, B.Phil, LLD, was an early proponent of the mutual relevance of neuroscience and philosophy. In her own work she has used developments [...]
Promise and Pitfalls of Neuroeducation (John Gabrieli)
John Gabrieli is the director of the Athinoula A. Martinos Imaging Center at the McGovern Institute. He is an Investigator at the Institute, with faculty appointments [...]
From Moral Concern to Moral Constraint: The Next Frontier of Neuroethics (Fiery Cushman, PhD)
Slides for this video can be found here. Fiery Cushman is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, where he directs the Moral Psychology Research Laboratory. [...]
Neuroeconomics and the Future of the Decision Sciences (Paul Glimcher)
Slides for this video can be found here. Paul Glimcher, PhD, is Director at New York University’s Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Decision Making, and [...]
Childhood Poverty and Brain Development: From Science to Policy (Martha J. Farah)
Martha J. Farah was educated at MIT and Harvard, and has taught at Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently the Walter [...]
4th Annual GVR Khodadad Lecture: The Neuroscience of Selfishness: Psychopathy as an Initial Model (Adrian Raine, D.Phil)
Adrian Raine is the Richard Perry University Professor in the Departments of Criminology, Psychiatry, and Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Raine's main area of interest is [...]
From Do-It-Yourself to Direct-to-Consumer: the Regulation of Consumer Noninvasive Brain Stimulation Devices (Anna Wexler)
Anna Wexler is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is currently a 2015-2016 [...]
Cognitive Enhancement with Noninvasive Brain Stimulation (Roy Hamilton, MD)
Dr. Hamilton is an Assistant Professor in Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [...]
Inevitable Mens Rea and Legal Insanity in the Age of Neuroscience
Dr. Stephen Morse is the Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law and a Professor of Psychology and Law in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. [...]
Neuroimaging in the Courtroom: a Perspective From the Witness Stand (Geoffrey K. Aguirre, MD, PhD)
Geoffrey K. Aguirre is an Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania and a cognitive neuroscientist. His clinical and research work concerns the [...]
The DSM-5 and Major Depression (Allan Horwitz, PhD)
Depression has become the single most commonly treated mental disorder, amid claims that one out of ten Americans suffer from this disorder every year and [...]
The Aesthetic Brain (Anjan Chatterjee, MD, and Blake Gopnik, PhD)
Anjan Chatterjee, MD, Professor of Neurology, Penn Center for Neuroscience & Society and author of the recently published The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to [...]