Welcome to your egkephalo!

For fans of the Greek translation of Welcome To Your Brain, here's an interview I did with Nena Georgiadou of Diabazoume.gr (translates as WeRead.gr). It took the form of a question-and-answer session. Find out about my favorite books, scientific and otherwise...

TEDxSF talk - neuroscience and willpower

I'll be coming to San Francisco next Tuesday for TEDxSF, a spinoff of the famous TED conference. It's at the California Academy of Sciences. Mayor Gavin Newsom will launch the event. The event will be LiveStreamed - tune in around 4:00pm Pacific. I'm on a little after 4:30pm to talk about the neuroscience of willpower.

Others on the docket: cellist Zoë Keating, planetarium guru Ryan Wyatt, and many more. It's a sold out show! Check it out at www.TEDxSF.org.

Update: for the talk click here or watch below:

Neuroscience experiments at home!

This is interesting: a startup company to let you make neurophysiological recordings at home. From, among other things...cockroaches. Wow and eww! And here's some news about their debut at the Society for Neuroscience meeting and first sale here.

Does the Brain Like E-Books?

In the New York Times today, Sandra weighs in on the differences in reading a physical book vs. an electronic book - and possible reasons why, in some ways, print still wins. Check it out here.

On NPR's Talk Of The Nation this afternoon

Flash - I'll be on Talk Of the Nation this afternoon at 2:30pm Eastern time, talking with Neal Conan about why people believe that President Obama isn't a natural born citizen, despite positive proof of his birth in Hawaii. It's related to previous false beliefs that arose during the campaign - see our NY Times op-ed on Obama's religion.

Tune in!

Update: a link to NPR here should have audio soon. Find out whether Neal Conan's favorite food really is liverwurst dipped in chocolate.

This is your brain on physics (or vice versa)

Recently I was asked to write for Physics World on what physical scientists can bring to the study of the brain.

As it turns out, they are good for lots of things! Examples include developing innovative imaging technologies and new theories for understanding brain function. My own laboratory's research does both. Read the piece here.

New trends in neuroscience research - on Big Think

Here's a recent interview on Big Think. They divided the interview into clips - see here for all of them.