Web 2.0 May Make You Fat

title Obesity and Social Networks
description Social contagion and weight. BTW, if you'd like to friend me on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, FriendFeed, del.icio.us, Flickr, VodPod, 12seconds.tv, YouTube, Vimeo, LiveJournal, Plurk, Tumblr, Last.fm, Blip.fm, or Messenger, let me know and I'll give you my user info. We could chat about what size our pants are.
producer UCSD-TV's Health Matters
featuring David Granet, James Fowler, Michael Gottschalk
format Flash
date 21/02/08
length 00:28:05
link http://www.ucsd.tv/search-details.asp?showID=12436

Tags: brain video TV obesity psychology social 2.0

Learning from Suicide

[Image: The Suicide by Edouard Manet.]

title Suicidal Individuals: Evaluation, Therapies, and Ethics – Part 2
description Human subjects and ethics in research, and the problem of high risk suicidal people being excluded from studies (eg. drug trials). From the great Allen L. Edwards Psychology Lecture series, vodcast on the Research Channel.
producer University of Washington
featuring Marsha Linehan
format wmv, mpeg4, Quicktime
date 28/02/07
length 00:57:37
link http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.aspx?rID=16248&fID=4139

Tags: brain video vodcast lecture psychology psychiatry psychotherapy suicide research

What's New in Neuroinformatics

[Image: distinct astrocyte domains revealed in an image from the freely available selection in the Cell Centered Database.]

title Integrating Neuroscience Knowledge: Brain Research in the Digital Age
description Fresh! This video is just a week old, a keynote address from the 1st INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics: Databasing and Modeling the Brain. Ellisman paints a picture of his work developing a neuroinformatics infrastructure (cyberinfrastructure) at the National Center of Microscopy and Imaging Research, BIRN, and related projects. He shows fantastic renderings and images, and discusses oodles of very hot new technology and research. More info here.
producer International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility
featuring Mark Ellisman
format Flash
date 07/09/08
length 00:57:28
link http://www.neuroinformatics2008.org/congress-movies/Mark%20Ellisman.flv/view

Tags: brain video lecture neuroinformatics neuroscience neuroimaging neurocartography astrocytes software research

The Science of Educating

title Brains R Us: The Science of Educating
description A star-studded all-day town hall forum on the neuroscience and psychology of education and learning. Brains R Us is a well-produced and packaged webcast by The Science Network (TSN), headed by the very distinguished Roger Bingham. It's an excellent science 2.0 site, with other equally polished productions to explore.
producer The Science Network and Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center, and partners
featuring Roger Bingham, David Boulton, Andrea Chiba, John Corcoran, Garrison W. Cottrell, C. Michael Dabney, Adele Diamond, Barbara Edwards, Nancy Farnan, Kurt Fischer, Fred Gage, Jay Giedd, Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek, Paul D. Houston, Jennifer Husbands, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Eric Jensen, Terry L. Jernigan, Leon Lederman, Kathleen Leos, David Lightfoot, Soo-Siang Lim, Peggy McCardle, Michael M. Merzenich, Mike Moses, Javier Movellan, Jim Nelson, Kathleen Paliokas, Hal Pashler, Donald A. Phillips, Urs Ribary, Terrence J. Sejnowski, Paula Tallal, and Patricia Wright
format Flash
date 04/03/08
length five videos of about an hour each
link http://thesciencenetwork.org/programs/brainsrus2008/

Tags: brain video webcast lecture neuroscience psychology education learning neurodevelopment science

Alzheimer's PI Profile

title RLE Investigator Profile: Collin M. Stultz
description A video profile accompanying recent news from MIT on Alzheimer's research. From the press release (not this video): "'We generated lots and lots of structures for both normal tau and a mutant form' associated with an increased risk for Alzheimer's,' Stultz said. By comparing the two sets, the researchers found one structure that was more common in the mutant form -- and therefore likely to 'play a role in the pathologic process.'" A potential drug target. Read the details in his PLoS Computational Biology article.
producer Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at MIT, Greg Hren
featuring Collin M. Stultz, Ph.D, M.D.
format Quicktime
date 01/08/08
length approx. 00:05:30
link http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/alzheimers-protein-0821.html
direct video link http://www.rle.mit.edu/video/investigators/pi_stultz.mov.

Tags: brain video alzheimers neurology pathology

Music Cognition from Rock Stars

title Seed Salon: David Byrne and Daniel Levitin
description "The singer/songwriter/artist/author enters the Seed Salon to discuss music with the producer/neuroscientist." Language, glossolia, music cognition, studying music, mirror neurons, memory, and more. They consider musical craft and the ability to evoke emotional responses, and consider authenticity for the listener. Byrne says, "You can know what's in a sunset and still be just as awed by it." This interview is a year old but still relevant (except maybe some of what's attributed to the mirror neurons). Levitin has more recently published a book on music archetypes: The World in Six Songs.
producer Seed Media Group
featuring Daniel Levitin, David Byrne
format Flash
date 01/05/07
length 00:59:20
link http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2007/05/seed_salon_david_byrne_daniel_1.php

Tags: brain video vodcast music cognition memory art psychology neuroscience saxophonist rockstars