Neuroscience for a New Age: How Brain Science Will Shape Our Future with Bill Newsome

Formed in the spring of 2013, the Stanford Neurosciences Institute aims to solve problems of the brain. In this talk, Professor Bill Newsome discusses neuroscience's implications in health, law and business.

Bill Newsome is the Harman Family Provostial Professor, the director of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute, and a professor of neurobiology and, by courtesy, of psychology. A leading investigator in sensory and cognitive neuroscience, he teaches graduate and medical courses in neuroscience, and co-teaches an undergraduate course on social and ethical issues in the neurosciences. Professor Newsome's honors include the Rank Prize for Optoelectronics, the Spencer Award for highly original contributions to research in neurobiology, the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association, the Dan David Prize and the Karl Lashley Award of the American Philosophical Society.

This Stanford+Connects micro lecture was filmed on location in Atlanta, Georgia. Stanford+Connects is a program of the Stanford Alumni Association.

[stephenstuart]

This vid started off so well and I felt truly inspired
Then it took a very serious nose dive.
Isn't the application of medical science where 100% of the focus should have been?
no no... says the big business lets develop this further so we can make people think in a way that can fill our alreay bulging pockets.  And people wonder why there is so much anger in the world. geesh!!!