People Famous on the Internet, on the Internet

title Therapy Goes Digital: Is the Internet good for your head?
description "All In The Mind is Radio National's weekly foray into the mental universe, the mind, brain and behaviour - everything from addiction to artificial intelligence." Award-winning, fab programme by Natasha Mitchell. This episode is on web-based therapies, and disorders related to Internet use. Includes a thought-provoking interview with Vaughan Bell of Mind Hacks on the contentious concept of Internet addiction. Natasha talking with Vaughan is an online media encounter, about online media, via the online medium of podcasting, of significance.
producer ABC Radio National
featuring Natasha Mitchell, Vaughan Bell, Nick Titov, Isaac Marks, Stephanie Bauer
format mp3, streaming Real Audio or WMA
date 29/09/07
length 00:31:01
link http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2007/2042572.htm
direct audio link [mp3] http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/current/audioonly/aim_20070929.mp3
podcast RSS link http://www.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/mind.xml

Tags: podcast radio brain Internet media psychology online_treatment addiction social

Neurology and Art

title Neurology and the Passion for Art
description "Why is it that great works of art seem to have a universal appeal, transcending cultural and geographic boundaries? V.S. Ramachandran, director of UCSD's Center for Brain and Cognition has studied how the brain perceives works of art and thinks he may know the answer to this intriguing question." An early neuroaesthetics lecture. UCTV show ID 5224.
producer UCSD-TV, University of California
featuring V.S. Ramachandran
format Real Video
date 13/11/00
length 01:29:37
link http://www.ucsd.tv/library-science.asp?detail=02&showID=5224
direct video link http://webcast.ucsd.edu:8080/ramgen/UCSD_TV/5224VisionLecture4040_NeurologyAndThePassionOfArt.rm

Tags: webcast brain lecture neuroaesthetics art neurology neuroscience cog sci perception

Hyperlexia

title Hyperlexia Demonstration and the Pathology of a Skill
description Hyperlexia, or precocious reading ability, is sometimes found in children with autistic spectrum disorders. This video highlights it as a super skill that's part of autism's awesomeness, and criticizes the organization Autism Speaks for framing it as a pathological condition accompanying disability. [Depeche Mode's Master and Servant is an odd choice for background music.] There's also a link to a blog with an old press release from Georgetown University announcing The Neural Basis of Hyperlexic Reading: An fMRI Case Study, Turkeltaub et al., Neuron, 2004 (link). From the abstract: "Hyperlexic reading is therefore associated with hyperactivation of the left superior temporal cortex, much in the same way as developmental dyslexia is associated with hypoactivation of this area."
producer YouTube user christschool
featuring various children
format YouTube
date 23/09/07
length 00:06:46
link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awXCq6wyjcQ
DOI doi:10.1016/S0896-6273(03)00803-1

Tags: homecast brain autism autism rights neuroimaging fMRI hyperlexia

Pharmacogenomics

title Opportunities For Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine
description "Prof. Altman is the director of the Center for Biomedical Computation at Stanford University and is director of the biomedical informatics training program. He is also the principal investigator of a project, PharmGKB, which is an online database of genetic and phenotype information from people who have participated in research studies at various medical centers participating in the PGRN." Read more at Neurofuture.
producer Google Tech Talks
featuring Russ B. Altman
format Google video, video iPod
date 22/02/06
length 00:52:31
link http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5976890974902036286&q=techtalks

Tags: webcast brain lecture pharmacogenomics pharmacogenetics genetics pharmacology neuropsychopharmacology neuropsychiatry

History of Violence

title A Brief History of Violence
description "In a preview of his next book, [linguist] Steven Pinker takes on violence. We live in violent times, an era of heightened warfare, genocide and senseless crime. Or so we've come to believe. Pinker charts a history of violence from Biblical times through the present, and says modern society has a little less to feel guilty about."
producer TED Talks
featuring Steven Pinker
format MP4
date **/03/07
length 00:19:27
link http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/163

Tags: webcast brain linguistics pinker violence

Social Communication in Autism

title Neurobiological Basis of Social Communication in Autism Spectrum Disorders
description Lecture on social cognition and neurobiology in autism. UCLA's Psychiatry Grand Rounds series on clinical neurosciences, human behavior, and mental health care has been webcasting weekly since 1996. Catch lectures live on Tuesdays mornings or view videos from the formidable archives. They now do an audio podcast summary edition, too: click to subscribe with iTunes or with RSS.
producer The Semel Institute at UCLA
featuring Susan Y. Bookheimer
format Real Video
date 01/05/07
length 00:53:27
link http://www.psychiatrygrandrounds.com/index07a.html#May
direct video link http://mentalhealth.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/av-npi-rs8?gr070501sb

Tags: webcast brain autism social cognition neurobiology neuropsychiatry

Drosophila and Free Will on SciVee

title Order in Spontaneous Behavior
description SciVee companion video to the paper Order in Spontaneous Behavior. There's also a video supplement in the text article, Video S1: Tethered Drosophila. Make a comment, rate the video and paper, and join in community discussions at open access PloS ONE and SciVee. Bora explains more at his Blog Around the Clock. Original article licensed as Creative Commons 2.5, pubcast video is Creative Commons 3.0.
producer Authors: Alexander Maye, Chih-hao Hsieh, George Sugihara, Björn Brembs. Video production by Bjoern Brembs at Freie Universtat Berlin.
featuring Bjoern Brembs
format Flash
date 22/08/07
length 00:10:23
link http://www.scivee.tv/node/726
cite PLoS ONE 2007 2(5):e443
cite text article http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000443

Visit Bjoern's blog, too; he offers a high-res WMV version of the video, without links to the paper, here. Turned out well, Bjoern. I look forward to the next pubcast (in production now). :)

Tags: webcast pubcast brain neuroethology free_will scivee open_access

Safe Scanning

title MRI Safety: The Invisible Force
description Vintage industrial video on MRI magnet and cryogen safety. "Another safety video. No big name stars, no millionaires, no far-flung romantic locations. But if you want reality TV, take a look at this." Cue wrench flying across room to magnet.
producer GE Healthcare
featuring unknown
format Google video
date 2005
length 00:15:09
link http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-3911691380555981564&pr=goog-sl

Via Mind Hacks.

Tags: webcast brain neuroimaging MRI scan brain_scan magnetism cryogen