From the ABC's Big Ideas:
"Baroness Professor Susan Greenfield is an influential neuroscientist, science communicator and policy adviser who has specialised in the areas of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. Greenfield is Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology at Oxford University and Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University. She was made an honorary Australian in 2006, and was Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain until she was controversially removed this year. She settled the matter out of court."
The ABC's Big Ideas has her talk, both in audio or video, here, on our brains and how we are having to change in our use of them given the world we live in. The ABC's web site describes it this way:
"More and more scientists are talking about the plasticity of the brain and its ability to be moulded and shaped by experiences. Neuroscientist Professor Susan Greenfield believes today's developing brain is being worryingly reshaped by excessive visual stimulation into an organ that lacks the ability to make sound judgements and measure risk.
Biotechnology, nanotechnology, even the internet, she says, are all impacting on our brains and could be heralding future generations with different abilities, agendas and even ways of thinking. Her prediction is that we might be standing on the brink of a mind-makeover more cataclysmic than anything in our history."
"Baroness Professor Susan Greenfield is an influential neuroscientist, science communicator and policy adviser who has specialised in the areas of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. Greenfield is Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology at Oxford University and Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University. She was made an honorary Australian in 2006, and was Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain until she was controversially removed this year. She settled the matter out of court."
The ABC's Big Ideas has her talk, both in audio or video, here, on our brains and how we are having to change in our use of them given the world we live in. The ABC's web site describes it this way:
"More and more scientists are talking about the plasticity of the brain and its ability to be moulded and shaped by experiences. Neuroscientist Professor Susan Greenfield believes today's developing brain is being worryingly reshaped by excessive visual stimulation into an organ that lacks the ability to make sound judgements and measure risk.
Biotechnology, nanotechnology, even the internet, she says, are all impacting on our brains and could be heralding future generations with different abilities, agendas and even ways of thinking. Her prediction is that we might be standing on the brink of a mind-makeover more cataclysmic than anything in our history."
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