At a gathering of brain scientists and philosophers hosted by Stanford and the University of California, San Francisco, and sponsored by the Dana Foundation, in which I'm involved, participants zeroed in on one portion of the world of worry about unbridled science called "neuroethics".
Their study, the first to implicate rotenone in Parkinson's disease, was described here today at a workshop on the neurobiology of disease, held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, the nation's largest gathering of brain researchers.
Fortunately, Tom's [a fellow clergy person at the gathering] brain was more engaged in the moment, and he was not about to lose out on the chance to have the man who might well be Pope someday anoint him.
But in the years since the first film, gathering the "Star Trek" brain trust in the same room became an exponentially complicated task.
To really get the most out of a brain gathering, you have to let the chips fall.
Since then dozens of new tools and technologies have burst upon the scene, capable of gathering information about the brain in unprecedented detail, clarity — and quantity.
The Coordinating Global Brain Projects gathering was mandated by the U.S. Congress in a 2015 law funding the U.S. Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative.
At a just-concluded family gathering, I racked my brains for a few words of wisdom that I'd want to hear as I prepared for an adult life.
The shadow gatherings are the brain-children of an unlikely parent, a former Republican activist, Arianna Huffington, and have attracted an equally unlikely collection of supporters, including Peter Hirshberg, an Internet entrepreneur, and George Soros.Nor will these shadow conventions be the end of it.
While awake the brain is also gathering lots of valuable information subconsciously, he said, without the person's ever being aware of it.
