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Health
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Olivia Carter | Melbourne | Feb. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 In this Melbourne Conversations event 'Sustaining a healthy body and mind', a selection of expert speakers discuss how we are dealing with the changing world with respect to social wellbeing, the increasing speed of daily life, environmental health, and the role of p... » play video
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Jason Mattingley | Melbourne | Feb. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2 What can neuroscience tell us about the nature of consciousness? Professor Jason Mattingley is a neuroscientist and neuropsychologist from the Queensland Brain Institute and the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland. In this lecture he looks at the nature of consciousn... » play video
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Michael Valenzuela | Sydney | Dec. 2009
Addressing the Mind and Its Potential conference, neuroscientist Dr Michael Valenzuela describes the concept of neuroplasticity in the brain. He cites the tangible benefits that mental and physical activity have on the development and ongoing functioning of the brain to demonstrate how our neural pa... » play video
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In this discussion at the Mind and its Potential conference, this expert panel addresses how recent discoveries in neuroscience have changed the way we conceive of brain function. Recent thinking proposes that the brain is an infinitely malleable organ, constantly changing and heavily influenced by... » play video
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Daniel Siegel | Sydney | Dec. 2009
Presenting at the Mind and its Potential conference, Dr Daniel Siegel MD speaks about Interpersonal Neurobiology, an interdisciplinary view of life experience that draws on over a dozen branches of science to create a framework for understanding of our subjective and interpersonal lives. Daniel Sieg... » play video
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Derek Yach | Sydney | Oct. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Food companies have contributed to the development of a food system that now provides adequate and safe food to billions of people worldwide. However nutrition crises related to over- and under- nutrition remain common. This debate involving nutritionist Dr Rosemary Stanto... » play video
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Fran Baum | Adelaide | Aug. 2009
In this talk at the Adelaide Festival of Ideas, health researcher and WHO Commissioner Professor Fran Baum discusses the determining factors of our mental and physical health, particularly wealth and equality within societies. Taking a global view, she finds that growing prosperity does not necessar... » play video
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Alex Wodak | Adelaide | Aug. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3In this Adelaide Festival of Ideas session, the topic is drugs. Legal and illegal, for therapy, pleasure or profit, the role and regulation of drugs across contemporary society is the subject for this panel of experts. Provocative presentations by historian of science Londa S... » play video
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Simon Singh | Adelaide | Aug. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 Presenting the conclusions of his book Trick or Treatment? (co-authored with the world’s first professor of complementary medicine Professor Edzard Ernst), UK scientist and journalist Simon Singh studies the large amount of scientific evidence that has been accumulated to investiga... » play video
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Alex Wodak | Sydney | Jul. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2When Nixon launched the War on Drugs in 1971, it was intended primarily as a political strategy rather than as a public policy. While it has failed as a public policy, the War on Drugs has often succeeded as a political strategy. However, significant health, social or economic benefit... » play video
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