Theme: Our Brain: The Unknown Frontier

The Business-Like Brain

Join Neuroscientist, Ed Bullmore, as he discusses how the brain’s high-cost/high-value hubs may be points of special vulnerability for many brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia.

Perceiving In The Blink Of An Eye

Find out the science behind making decisions in a ‘blink of an eye’, and practical applications it has for real-life problems

We Are Our Brains

Internationally renowned researcher and professor of neurobiology at Amsterdam University, Dick Swaab, will be discussing his book We Are Our Brains

The Anatomy of Violence: The biological roots of crime

Neuroscience is showing that brain impairments raise the odds that some children will become psychopaths and violent offenders; the ethical issues this raises can no longer be ignored as science dissects the biological roots of crime