April 24, 2008

Baseball and the Brain

Dana Center, Washington, DC

Dan Gordon, editor of Your Brain on Cubs, moderated a panel about baseball and the brain with former Giant baseball great, Bobby Thomson; Hillary R. Rodman, Ph.D., Emory University; and Jordan Grafman, Ph.D., National Institute of Neurological Disorders.

March 04, 2008

Learning, Arts, and the Brain: the Dana Consortium Report on Arts and Cognition

Dana Center, Washington, DC

Brian Wandell, Ph.D., Stanford University, giving a presentation at the Learning, Arts, and the Brain news conference at the Dana Center. Wandell and colleagues Michael Gazzaniga, Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara, Michael Posner, Ph.D., University of Oregon, and Elizabeth Spelke, Ph.D., Harvard University, reported on findings from a three-year Dana study on arts learning and cognitive development.

November 14, 2007

Neuroscience Meets Psychoanalysis

Dana Center, Washington, DC

Dr. Pierre Magistretti and Dr. Francois Ansermet spoke with Dana Foundation Chairman William Safire about their new book, Biology of Freedom: Neural Plasticity, Experience, and the Unconscious, and the bridge between neuroscience and psychoanalysis.

October 10, 2007

A Conversation with David Nathan

Dana Center, Washington, DC

The bad news is we all get cancer; the good news is that almost always, we clean ourselves up.

September 26, 2007

Neuroscience at War: Mind Wars Trans-Atlantic Discussion

Dana Center, Washington, DC and Dana Centre, London

Jonathan D. Moreno, Ph.D., and William Safire, Dana chairman in a transatlantic discussion, Mind Wars: How Brain Research May Change the Way Wars Are Fought, with panelists at the Dana Centre in London.