Life of Brain
Monday 24 May 2010
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ENCORE We should award frequent travel miles to your brain. After all, it’s evolved a long way from the days of guiding brachiation from tree-to-tree to become the three pounds of web-surfing, Sudoku-playing powerhouse it is today. But a suite of technologies may expand human brains further still.
From smart pills to nano-wires: discover the potential – and peril – of neuro-engineering to repair and enhance our cognitive function.
Also, how our brains got so big in the first place: a defense of the modern diet.
Guests
- Bill Leonard – department chairman and professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University
- Michael Gazzaniga – neuroscientist and director of the University of California – Santa Barbara’s SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind. Author of
Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique - Ian Pearson – futurologist at Futurizon
- Steven Rose – biologist and director of the Brain and Behavior Research Group at the Open University in London. Author of The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow’s Neuroscience
- Ed Boyden – neuroscientist at MIT’s Media Lab and Department of Biological Engineering
This episode was tagged with: brains brain evolution future neuroscience
