Hierarchy

Note: image is unrelated to the lecture, it depicts Maslow's Hierarchy of [Psychological] Needs

title Hierarchical Temporal Memory: Biological Mapping to Neocortex and Thalamus
description "Jeff Hawkins and Dileep George have proposed a theoretical framework for how the hierarchical structure of neocortex builds a model of the world. This theory, called Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) has been turned into a technology platform and is currently being applied to varied problems of pattern discovery and inference by their company Numenta. In this talk Hawkins will give a brief introduction to the technology and then give a detailed mapping between the concepts underlying HTM and the anatomy and physiology of neocortex and thalamus." Download the software (v. 1.2 currently for Mac and Linux only) with free registration at Numenta's site.
producer Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience
featuring Jeff Hawkins
format MPEG4, MPEG1, MPEG2, or embedded
date 20/03/07
length 01:24:40
link http://www.archive.org/details/Redwood_Center_2007_03_20_Jeff_Hawkins
direct video link http://www.archive.org/details/Redwood_Center_2007_03_20_Jeff_Hawkins

Tags: webcast brain AI software neuroscience

Eating Disorders

title Dying to be Thin
description Acclaimed documentary about anorexia and bulimia. Hour-long program separated into eight short clips for the web including one called "The Search for Answers" on precipitants and neurobiology of anorexia. Companion web site has teaching resources, transcript, links, help and resources, and more info.
producer PBS
featuring various experts and sufferers
format streaming QuickTime or Real Media
date 12/12/00
length approx 00:60:00, in segments
link http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/thin/program.html

Tags: webcast brain anorexia bulimia

The State of Depression in America

title The State of Depression in America
description "The State of Depression in America initiate reflects the huge unmet need to examine all aspects of this illness and fully educate the public about depression. Perhaps the greatest challenge is the wide disparities in the quality of care and access to tratment - disparities that cross socio-economic populations, state boundaries, and throughout the public and private payor systems. We have many opportunities to transform mental health care. But to meet the needs of the millions suffering with depression and the millions touched in other ways by this illness, we need far-reaching partnerships. To that end, DBSA compiled the State of Depression in America and presents its findings so that together we can make change happen." There's a more detailed accompanying report here.
producer Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
featuring Mike Wallace
format .asx
date 06/11/06
length 00:12:15
link http://www.softconference.com/dbsa/sessionDetail.asp?SID=89862
direct video link http://www.softconference.com/media/WMP/261140/020.ASX

Tags: webcast brain depression

Bipolar Cognition

title Cognitive Neuroscience and Bipolar Disorder: New Insights into Relevant Outcomes and Mechanisms of Disease
description From the abstract: "Traditional clinical descriptions of both phenomena and outcome in bipolar disorder are atheoretical and have limited heuristic potential. Cognitive neuroscience increasingly offers, in contrast, a novel synthesis of how the brain works in health and, more speculatively, in disease. The task is to identify semi-discrete components of cognition that provide insights into pathophysiology or drug action." From the Sixth International Conference on Bipolar Disorder; all six conferences are online in video and audio, with the seventh conference to come soon. Meanwhile, congratulations to John McManamy, recipient of this year's prestigious Mogens Schou Award for Public Service (pictured above) for his expert patient journalism. Well-deserved, and inspiring.
producer University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
featuring Guy Goodwin
format Real Media
date 06/17/05
length 00:24:36
link http://www.wpic.pitt.edu/stanley/6thbipconf/Day2.htm
direct video link http://videoserver.upmc.com/ramgen/wpic/bp6/goodwin117/trainer.smi
alternative direct audio link http://videoserver.upmc.com/ramgen/wpic/bp6/goodwin117/trainer2.smi

Tags: webcast brain cogsci bipolar cognition achievement writing

Story of the Neuron

title The Story of the Neuron
description Weird. Just weird. Especially with that music soundtrack. Touted as a "documentary" about neurons, but...
producer Theo Verelst
featuring Theo Verelst
format Flash embed
date unknown
length 00:10:05
link http://www.archive.org/details/The_Story_of_the_Neuron

Tags: webcast brain neuron bizarre

The Amygdaloids

title The Amygdaloids Play Madison Square Gardens
description The Amygdaloids are a "heavy mental" rock group of scientists. This video is from the NYU graduation ceremony at Madison Square Gardens, where the band played to an appreciative crowd and got The Wave. Check out more of their music videos here.
producer YouTube user mathproblems
featuring The Amygdaloids
format YouTube, Flash embed
date 08/05/07
length 00:06:55
link http://www.cns.nyu.edu/ledoux/amygdaloids/07msg_play.htm

Tags: webcast brain music neuroscience

Children's Anxiety

title Helping Your Anxious Child or Teen
description Video for parents of children with anxiety disorders like OCD, social anxiety, separation anxiety, phobias, etc., with diagnostic tips, home management strategies and such. Series of interviews with experts on each type of disorder. Accompanying web site has lots of basic info for adults with disorders as well.
producer BC Partners
featuring Michael Catchpole and guests
format Flash
date 2007
length approx 45 minutes, in segments
link http://anxietybc.com/parent/

Tags: webcast brain anxiety parenting

Music Festival for Mental Health

title Presentation on the Genetics of Mental Illnesses
description Distinguished speaker Daniel Weinberger's seminar and Q&A from the 2006 Music Festival for Mental Health fundraising and educational event, geared to a layperson audience.
producer Staglin Family Vineyard
featuring Daniel Weinberger
format Google Video
date 30/09/06
length 01:23:30
link http://www.music-festival.org/videos.html
direct video link http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8390826181777179324&hl=en

Tags: webcast brain genetics mental_health

Brains on Fire

title What Forest Fires Tell Us About the Brain
description Seminar by a rare female in the field of computational neuroscience. Abstract: "The dynamics of large networks of spiking neurons resembles closely that of forest fires. During such events forests contain green, burned and burning trees; likewise neural networks contain sensitive, refractory and activated neurons. We show how models of neuronal activity, both as standard forest fires as well as networks of integrate and fire neurons, are capable of displaying a variety of interesting behavior. These include long-range, power law temporal correlations in the inter-spike interval histograms, criticality, stochastic resonance in the noise driven appearance of spirals of neural activity, traveling waves, and localized clusters of activated and refractory neurons which move around. Although mean field analysis is sufficient for the characterization of population behavior away from criticality, the analysis at the critical state requires the methods of statistical neural field theory to explicitly incorporate the effects of fluctuations." My cell phone records better quality video than this, and most of the audience questions are inaudible, but it's still an interesting talk.
producer Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience
featuring Tanya Baker
format Flash, MPEG4
date 05/12/06
length 01:23:30
link http://www.archive.org/details/Redwood_Center_2006_12_05_Tanya_Baker
direct video link http://www.archive.org/download/Redwood_Center_2006_12_05_Tanya_Baker/Redwood_Center_2006_12_05_Tanya_Baker_64kb.mp4 or the shorter URL http://tinyurl.com/2q7x69

Tags: webcast brain neuroscience computational_neuroscience fires

Ultra High Gamma

title Ultra high gamma in the human electrocorticogram
description "From Neurons to Brain Activity: Scientists Discuss Modeling the Brain at Multiple Levels. Calit2 at UCSD played host over the weekend to the public portion of a three-day workshop on multi-level brain modeling. The weekend was organized by the Sloan/Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology at the Salk Institute and UCSD's Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience. Multi-level brain modeling explores the relationships between measurements that span multiple levels of the brain -- from the molecular properties of synapses, the dynamic properties of single neurons, the collective properties reflected in local field potentials, and the bulk properties of brain activity as measured with EEG, MEG and fMRI. According to Salk's Terry Sejnowski, an academic participant in Calit2 and UCSD's Institute of Neural Computation, who chaired the Atkinson Hall session, each of these levels has a substantial literature but too little effort has been put into understanding how they are related. Sejnowski's introduction and four talks at Calit2 [available at the same link] were aimed at a more general audience, and set up the discussion for ensuing technical talks."
producer California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology at UCSD
featuring Robert Knight
format RealVideo
date 04/10/06
length 00:39:10
link http://calit2.net/newsroom/article.php?id=947
direct video link http://rpvss.ucsd.edu:8080/ramgen/calit2/Knight.rm

See also this video from the same series.

Tags: webcast brain neuroscience

Vintage Online Neuroimaging

title Brain Imaging Demos
description From the Montreal Neurological Institute, a bit of Internet and imaging history from a web site that hasn't been updated since 2001. These animations were created in 1989 on a Pixar workstation by Louis Collins and Sean Marrett, then converted to MPEG and placed online in 1998. The site warns users, "Note: most of these demos require a graphical browser." These are vintage animations from when Pixar made hardware; a web page of historical brain videos. "The McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (BIC) is one of the largest scientific communities in North America dedicated solely to research imaging of the human brain. It consist[ed] of a core group of 10 researchers conducting independent research with high technology brain scanners and sophisticated computational analysis. The program emphasizes quantitative 3-D investigation of brain structure and function." Current status unknown.
producer Montréal Neurological Institute, McGill University
featuring brains
format mpeg
date 24/06/1998
length a few seconds each
link http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/demos/
direct video link (one sample) http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/demos/pixar-small/pain/pain.mpg

Tags: animation brain neuroimaging vintage

Varmus, and Kandel's Memories

title An hour with guest host Harold Varmus and neurobiologist Eric Kandel
description Another in the Charlie Rose Science Series with scientists from their archives (On Suicide is another). This one's hardcore. "Nobel laureate Dr. Harold Varmus, Chairman & CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center guest hosts a conversation with neurobiologist Dr. Eric Kandel, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Medicine. Kandel discusses his research and book 'In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind'."
producer Charlie Rose
featuring Harold Varmus, Eric Kandel
format Google Video embed
date 03/29/06
length 00:51:36
link http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2006/03/29/1/an-hour-with-guest-host-harold-varmus-and-neurobiologist-eric-kandel - the short URL is http://tinyurl.com/36cgzb.

Via Mind Hacks, who also recommended a discussion of the legacy of Freud.

Tags: webcast brain neurobiology nobel memories

Sapolsky on Stress

title Stress and Memory? Forget It!
description "Can stress make you forget? Dr. Robert Sapolsky will present an overview of the disruptive effects of stress on memory and brain aging." A 20 minute talk by an entertaining expert followed by an interview and Q&A. Also, if you didn't watch it the first time, Sapolsky's excellent lecture on neurodegeneration and stress is a must see.
producer Exploratorium
featuring Robert Sapolsky, Sedge Thompson moderator
format RealAudio
date 18/11/98
length 01:38:48
link http://www.exploratorium.edu/memory/robertsapolsky.html
direct [audio] link http://www.exploratorium.edu/memory/memory4-981118.ram

Hat tip: Mind Hacks.

Tags: webcast brain stress memory