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[Rags847]

I thought this would be an excellent idea. A resource thread for audio and video media existing on the internet that discuss topics of interest related to this Nootropic/Neuroscience forum page.

Please add your finds to this thread.

Audio & Video Talks, Lectures And Programs On:

Neuroscience
Nootropics/Smart Pills
Brain Enhancement, Protection and Repair
Brain Plasticity and NGF
Related Psychoactive Substances
Brain Enchancement Exercises, Techniques, Programs
Moral and Ethical Debates
Brain-Computer Interfacing




Here is a great find to start this thread out with. Steven Rose (neuroscientist, writer) author of Promise and Peril: The Future of the Brain. A 2005 talk.

http://forum.wgbh.or...lecture_id=1805

(WGBH Forum Network is a great intellectual resource).







Promise and Peril: The Future of the Brain

Steven Rose, neuroscientist, writer

Brain repair, smart pills, mind-reading machines--modern neuroscience promises to deliver an array of treatments and diagnostic tools that sound like they are the stuff of science fiction, as well as profound insight into the nature of the brain over the next decade. But these breakthroughs raise troubling questions about what it means to be human, Steven Rose warns. If the human genome is 99% identical to the chimpanzee's, why are we so different? What does the pharmaceutical promise of mental health do to our understanding of mental health? How does our evolving understanding of the human brain affect our sense of the human mind and our sense of agency and humanity?

An internationally renowned biologist, Steven Rose has written or edited 15 books, including The Chemistry of Life, The Conscious Brain, and Not in our Genes with Richard Lewontin. His research has made significant strides toward a treatment for Alzheimer's disease. He is a frequent guest on the BBC, and is known for questioning the relationships between science, business and politics. Dr Rose is professor of biology and director of the brain research group at the Open University in Great Britain and a visiting professor in anatomy and developmental biology at University College London.



Audio



Cambridge Forum


Wednesday, March 16, 2005
The First Parish Church in Cambridge [MA]

Edited by Rags847, 25 July 2008 - 09:14 AM.

[ikaros]

http://www.princeton...Media/lectures/ - Princeton University's lectures. There are lectures on various topics, among them some very interesting neuroscience talks.

[Rags847]

Here is another one related to the first one.

Steven Rose's book (The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's Neuroscience) reviewed on the Brain Science Podcast Episode #9

http://brainsciencep...post_id=200444#


#9-Brain Science Podcast: The Future of the Brain




The Brain Science Podcast #9 discusses The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's Neuroscience by Steven Rose. The focus is on considering some of the moral and ethical dilemmas future developments in neuroscience might create.

For the show notes go to http://brainsciencepodcast.com.
Send email to docartemis at gmail.com.
Direct download: 9-brainscience-rose_.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 2:06 PM

Edited by Rags847, 25 July 2008 - 10:47 AM.

[Rags847]

Brave New Mind: Smart drugs and the ethics of neuro-enhancement


An April Fools prank this year saw the launch of the World Anti-Brain Doping Authority. Jokes aside, drugs like Ritalin for ADHD and Modafinil for sleeping disorders are now being popped by people who want to be weller than well. Some argue that the spectre of 'smart drugs' and 'cosmetic pharmacology' pose a challenge to our authentic selves. Do we know the long term risks? And in the classroom, would brain-doping be cheating?



Awesome find! ABC Radio National's All In The Mind Program.
http://www.abc.net.a...008/2269902.htm
The transcript is here. The site only has the audio available for four weeks.
But I found the audio of the show here at this site:
http://www.mediafly....d_the_ethics_of
Great lists of references and links to the specific articles on the ABC site (and reproduced below).


Publications
Title: Psychopharmacological Enhancement
Author: Walter Glannon
Publisher: Neuroethics (2008) 1:45-54
URL: http://www.springerl...0230237323j79j/

Title: Poll results: look who's doping
Author: Brendan Maher
Publisher: Nature Vol 452 10 April 2008
URL: http://www.nature.co...ll/452674a.html

Title: The Cognition Enhanced Classroom
Author: Danielle Turner and Barbara Sahakian (In: Better Humans, edited by Paul Miller and James Wilsdon.)
Publisher: DEMOS. 21: 79-85
URL: http://www.demos.co....umanscollection

Title: Neuroethics needed
Author: Editorial
Publisher: Nature Vol 441, Issu no 7096, 22 June 2006
URL: http://www.nature.co...ll/441907a.html

Title: Professor's little helper (Commentary)
Author: Barbara Sahakian and Sharon Morein-Zamir
Publisher: Nature 450, 1157-1159 (20 December 2007)
URL: http://www.nature.co...l/4501157a.html

Title: Neurocognitive enhancement: What can we do and what should we do?
Author: Martha J.Farah, Judy Illes, Robert Cook-Deegan, Howard Gardner, Eric Kandel, Patricia King, Eric Parens, Barbara Sahakian & Paul Root Wolpe
Publisher: Nature Reviews Neuroscience 5, 421-425 (2004);
URL: http://www.bioethics...pe_neurocog.pdf
Link above is to a PDF file

Title: Improving our Brains?
Author: Steven E. Hyman
Publisher: Biosocieties (journal) Volume1 Part 1 March 2006

Title: Neuroethics of Cognitive Enhancement
Author: Danielle C. Turner and Barbara J. Sahakian
Publisher: BioSocieties (2006), 1: 113-123. Cambridge University Press
URL: http://journals.camb...l...&aid=413124

Title: Bioethics and the Brain
Author: Walter Glannon
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2006

Title: Defining Right and Wrong in Brain Science: Essential Readings in Neuroethics
Author: Editor: Walter Glannon
Publisher: Dana Press, 2007.

Title: Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
Author: Francis Fukuyama
Publisher: 2002, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN-10: 0374236437

Edited by Rags847, 27 July 2008 - 09:57 AM.

[Rags847]

NIH (National Institutes Of Health) VideoCasting is quite the resource (over 4000 videos available):
http://videocast.nih.gov/default.asp
http://videocast.nih...Events.asp?c=16 [Neuroscience category]



And The Dana Foundation!!!
http://www.dana.org/

Here is one of interest:

http://www.dana.org/...il.aspx?id=7854


The Neuroethics of Enhancement

How Smart Are Smart Drugs?
Monday, May 14, 2007
Dana Center, Washington, DC

Edited by Rags847, 01 August 2008 - 03:27 AM.

[Rags847]

Very informative audio of a documentary film "The Brain Fitness Program" (interviews a number of scientists; on plasticity, the importance of attention on plasticity, and many other great topics):

http://www.kpfa.org/....php?arch=24909

Against the Grain Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

A look at the neuroscience of brain health and what it takes to keep one's brain sharp into old age.

Edited by Rags847, 02 August 2008 - 10:45 PM.

[brotherx]

Wow - that's a nice list of sources! :-)

Cheers

Alex

Very informative audio of a documentary film "The Brain Fitness Program" (interviews a number of scientists; on plasticity, the importance of attention on plasticity, and many other great topics):

http://www.kpfa.org/....php?arch=24909

Against the Grain Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

A look at the neuroscience of brain health and what it takes to keep one's brain sharp into old age.

[Rags847]

Wow - that's a nice list of sources! :-)

Cheers

Alex

Glad you find the links useful, brotherx.

Here is another find:

http://video.google....CGoH2qgL3huWnCw

Author interviewed (audio interview). A lot of good info on the brain offered up.

"Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life. By Sandra Aamodt,and Dr. Sam Wang". [Three parts].

[Rags847]

Dan Rather Reports: Mind Science [Apr 8, 2008]

Interesting report on brain plasticity and the effect of meditation on the brain and emotions (in 6 parts on YouTube). Dali Lama interviewed.

http://video.google....6...vt=lf&hl=en

Edited by Rags847, 05 August 2008 - 09:35 PM.

[Rags847]

Another choice find! Very technical neurology podcast here:


Listen to The Lancet Neurology A monthly audio summary, featuring discussion of the latest original research, reviews, and comment published in The Lancet Neurology. Editors of the journal discuss highlights of the current issue, with occasional interviews with an author of a key article.

http://www.thelancet.com/audio/laneur



They also have two other podcast reviews:
Listen to The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Listen to The Lancet Oncology