Arts

Schizophrenia and Syd Barrett: Shine on You Crazy Diamond

May 13, 2013

I heard a track recently, something that I haven’t heard in a long while, and it’s called “Shine on You Crazy Diamond.” You may have heard of it. Released by Pink Floyd in 1975, it was a tribute to their friend and founder, Syd Barrett, who at that point was no longer part of the band having left it in 1968 due to mental

In Search of Memory: The Neuroscientist Eric Kandel

April 29, 2013

“In Search of Memory” is a cinematographic homage to one of the greatest researchers of our generation — Eric Kandel. He is an 83 year-young, Nobel Prize-winning and game-changing neuroscientist who also happens to possess a witty, sentimental and loving persona. In the 95-minute film by Petra Seeger, we get

The Brain Extravaganza! of Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

April 28, 2012

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, the Indiana brain scientist who suffered a stroke in 1996 at the age of 37 and the author of her memoir, “My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey,” which became a New York Times bestseller, is in the news again. Her dream of an exhibit featuring giant brains will be mounted around

Joseph LeDoux: Neuroscientist by day, Rock Star by night

April 11, 2012

Joseph E. LeDoux is a Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science, and professor of neural science and psychology at New York University. He is also the director of the…

TV: CBS’s UNFORGETTABLE CRIME SOLVER WITH ABSOLUTE MEMORY

October 29, 2011

The latest addition to CBS’s crime procedural roster has a novel twist: Unforgettable is about a former cop with hyperthymesia (superior autobiographical memory) who rejoins the force after witnessing a…

Resources: Slap UnHappy

July 22, 2011

About a brain-damaged boxer, “Lights Out” highlights the consequences of concussions.

The Brain Art Festival: Where Your Brain Is The Star

August 20, 2009

“THE AUDIENCE WILL AWAKEN TO THE FACT THAT THE BRAIN IS INDEED LIFE, HUMAN HISTORY, AND THE EARTH; AND EXPAND THEIR LIFE’S HOPE, DREAMS AND POWER.”

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