Musical Minds
Oliver Sacks explores how the power of music can make the brain come alive. Aired June 30, 2009 on PBS

Carboncopies is a nonprofit organisation with a goal of creating a networking and outreach community around the central idea of Advancing Substrate Independent Minds (ASIM).

ASIM is a field of research which seeks to understand the brain and nervous system of a wide range of organisms, including humans, in order to facilitate emulation of these organisms in an artificial substrate, for example a computer processor.

David Linden's New Book That Explores How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good

Elaine Aaron

BECS: Expertise in Biomedical Engineering (BE) and Excellence in Computational Science (CS) We focus on living and other complex systems, their measurement, analysis, modelling, understanding and control.

Systems of interest range from small to large: from quantum dots, molecular interactions and nanosystems to neurons, the brain and the heart to cognition, social and economical networks to information technology systems.

We combine experimental and computational methods and develop algorithms and new technologies to attack major problems in human well-being, medical diagnostics, society, energy, and environment.

life and beyond through the mind's eye

Natasha Mitchell is an Australian science/health journalist, radio host and producer. She presents a weekly program called All in the Mind.

All in the Mind, presented by Natasha Mitchell, is Radio National's weekly foray into all things mental – a program about the mind, brain and behaviour. From dreaming to depression, addiction to artificial intelligence, consciousness to coma, psychoanalysis to psychopathy, free will to forgetting – All in the Mind explores the human condition through the mind's eye.

In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, a pioneering neuroscientist argues that brain-wave control of machines will allow the paralyzed to walk, and portends a future of mind melds and thought downloads

During the "Notes & Neurons: In Search of a Common Chorus" event from the 2009 World Science Festival, famed musician Bobby McFerrin treated the audience to several improvised a cappella performances. Here, for your viewing pleasure, is the first of two songs.

We are students and related folk (i.e interns) on the MSc in Music, Mind and Brain at Goldsmiths, University of London, a programme which focuses on the cognitive and biological foundations of musical behaviour.

As part of the programme there is an Invited Speaker Series, where experts from the field visit Goldsmiths to share with us their latest research findings. As part of our assessment, we have to write a collaborative blog on one of these talks, some of which have been posted here!

Ten distinguished cognitive neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists and linguists from top institutions across the country will gather at Shriver and Mason halls this week to discuss what promise to be the most exciting new developments in the study of the mind and brain over the coming decade. Sponsored by the departments of Cognitive Science and Psychological and Brain Sciences and the Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, this seminar will do more than stimulate discussion: It will create a blueprint for the future of cognitive and brain sciences at The Johns Hopkins University

If you need a pain killer but want to skip the morphine, you might fire up a passionate love relationship to relieve your pain. A team of researchers at Stanford University Medical Center in California report that the effects of love on the brain are similar to those of morphine and cocaine.

Neuroethics & Law Blog
An interdisciplinary forum for legal and ethical issues related to the mind and brain.

Mind42.com is a browser based online mind mapping application. With Mind42.com installing mindmapping tools is no longer needed - for a hassle-free mindmapping experience. Just open the browser and launch the application when needed.

Whether you are studying psychology, neurobiology, or just have a passion for learning about the brain, there are plenty of interesting lectures out there that will help you learn all about the brain. These lectures provide a huge amount of information on how the brain develops, the science behind the mind-body connection, atypical ways the brain reacts, progress in the field of brain-machine interactions, or more general psychology topics.

Jonah Lehrer's How We Decide is the latest in a series of popular neuroscience books (Brain Rules, Stumbling on Happiness, Mind Wide Open, The Brain that Changes Itself) to (literally) blow my mind.

More than half of adult Americans report they have had a spiritual experience that changed their lives. Now, scientists from universities like Harvard, Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins are using new technologies to analyze the brains of people who claim they have touched the spiritual — from Christians who speak in tongues to Buddhist monks to people who claim to have had near-death experiences. Hear what they have discovered in this controversial field, as the science of spirituality continues to evolve.