How the Brain Encodes Reward
How the Brain Encodes Reward
05/07/2009 8:30 AM 46"3002Okihide Hikosaka, National Eye InstituteDescription: As Ann Graybiel puts it, "basal ganglia were dark basement structures" until Okihide Hikosaka began his classic 1980s research demonstrating how these neuronal clusters influenced eye movements. Hikosaka has ...
Imaging the Human Striatum and its Modulation by Dopamine
Imaging the Human Striatum and its Modulation by Dopamine
05/07/2009 2:15 PM 46"3002Roshan Cools, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and BehaviorDescription: Researchers have known for some time that the neurotransmitter dopamine is centrally involved in learning and working memory, Roshan Cools tells us, and that ...
Alzheimer's Disease: Current State and Hope for the Future
Alzheimer's Disease: Current State and Hope for the Future
05/04/2009 2:00 PM 46"3002Li"Huei Tsai, Picower Professor of Neuroscience, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigatorDescription: Measured in human suffering, and by statistics, Alzheimer's Disease (AD) presents a formidable specter: with incidence approaching 30 ...
Introduction/Overview of Brain Disorders
Introduction/Overview of Brain Disorders
05/04/2009 1:00 PM 46"3002Dr. Susan Hockfield, President, MIT; Mriganka Sur, Newton Professor in Neuroscience; Head, Department of Brain and Cognitive SciencesDescription: In their symposium introduction, Susan Hockfield and Mriganka Sur place MIT at the forefront of a revolution in ...
New Frontiers in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Research
New Frontiers in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Research
05/04/2009 3:00 PM 46"3002Ed Scolnick, Director, Psychiatric Disease Program and the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad InstituteDescription: In contrast to cardiovascular disease, few breakthrough remedies for psychiatric illness have emerged in the past ...
The Autistic Neuron
The Autistic Neuron
05/04/2009 1:20 PM 46"3002Mark Bear, Director, Picower Institute,Picower Professor of Neuroscience; The Picower Center for Learning and Memory; Description: This self"described "basic neuroscientist" confesses he never thought he'd give a talk on autism, but as Mark Bear recounts, decades of ...
Futures of Entertainment 3 - Welcome
Futures of Entertainment 3 - Welcome
Jason Schupbach, Creative Economy Industry Director, Massachusetts Office of Business Development
Futures of Entertainment 3 - Opening Remarks
Futures of Entertainment 3 - Opening Remarks
Professor Henry Jenkins, MIT
Futures of Entertainment 3 - Conversation: Wealth, Value, ...
Futures of Entertainment 3 - Conversation: Wealth, Value, and Social ...
Henry Jenkins in conversation with Yochai Benkler - Harvard Law School, author, "The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom."
The Impact of New Media on the Election
The Impact of New Media on the Election
Panelists discuss how new technology may have permanently changed U.S. politics and campaigning.
The Role of Civic Media in the 2008 U.S. Presidential ...
The Role of Civic Media in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
10/22/2008 6:00 PM MuseumHenry Jenkins, Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California; Description: In World of Warcraft, online 'clans' form whose members, while dispersed geographically, exhibit fierce ...
Technologies and Emerging Democracies: Building a Better ...
Technologies and Emerging Democracies: Building a Better Gatekeeper
10/08/2008 6:00 PM MuseumEthan Zuckerman, Fellow, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University Law SchoolDescription: Don't forsake The New York Times for online media, instructs Ethan Zuckerman, because newspapers provide opportunities for learning ...
A Report Card on Media Coverage of the Presidential Election
MIT Communications Forum: A Report Card on Media Coverage of the ...
There's anxiety, outrage, and some wistfulness in this panel devoted to weighing the strengths and weaknesses of political reporting during the current campaign season.
Leaderless Jihad: Radicalization in the West
Leaderless Jihad: Radicalization in the West
Marc Sageman, an expert on al Qaeda and related terrorist organizations, discusses how people end up on the path to political violence in a post-9/11 world. His talk builds upon his best-selling book, "Understanding Terror Networks" and is based upon his recent ...
A Roadmap for the Edge of the Internet
A Roadmap for the Edge of the Internet
04/08/2008 8"404Dr. Alan Benner, Senior Engineer, IBM Server DivisionDescription: In the curious way of technological evolution, we first had computers that occupied entire rooms, watched them shrink to desktop, laptop and palm"sized devices, and now find ourselves coming full circle, and ...
Games and Civic Engagement
Games and Civic Engagement
Video games could transform the world some day, if only their potential could be fully realized.
What is Civic Media?
What is Civic Media?
09/20/2007 5:00 PM Bartos TheaterChris Csikszentmihalyi, Director, Center for Future Civic Media; Research Scientist; Henry Jenkins, Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California; ; Beth Noveck, Professor of Law, New York Law ...
CrackBerrys: Exploring the Social Implications of Wireless ...
CrackBerrys: Exploring the Social Implications of Wireless Email Devices
06/09/2007 10:00 AM JoAnne Yates, Sloan Distinguished Professor of ManagementDescription: Fast-moving managers are finding that their most cherished high-tech gadget may actually be their worst enemy. JoAnne Yates reviews recent research into the evolving, ...
Collaboration and Collective Intelligence
Collaboration and Collective Intelligence
04/27/2007 5:45 PM Bartos theaterThomas Malone, Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Sloan; Mimi Ito, Research Scientist, Annenberg Center for Communication; Cory Ondrejka, Chief Technology Officer, Linden Lab; ...
Evangelicals and the Media
Evangelicals and the Media
04/05/2007 5:00 PM 3-270Amy McCreath, Episcopal Chaplain, MIT; Gary Schneeberger, Special Assistant for Media Relations, to James Dobson, Focus on the Family founder and chairman; Diane Winston, Knight Professor in Media and Religion, Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern ...