. >> from a cognitive neuroscience standpoint, if you dedicate a place, if you are religious about it -- or clock 30 i am going to spend an hour -- 4:30 i'm going to spend an hour here or there. that contextual aspect helps. inform is now wrapping up all of our events by asking our speakers, ourselves included, the following question. alex, what is your 60-second the idea to change the world? >> i think everybody should listen to music from other cultures. even daniel has said that, you know, we need to have that in printing when we are young to understand balinese monkey chants or something to put it into context. i travel a lot. i just came back from asia. i was given a lot of career in music, a lot of ethnic music -- a lot of korean music. even though you may not have a cultural context, if you give it a little bit of a chance, it is an opportunity to open up your mind a little bit. when you do that, it may on sub -- some subconscious level give you a better understanding of why people are the way they are in different parts of the world and who they are. i think we should all be l

cognitive neuroscience is in its industry here try to sort of music. -- in fancy here trying to sort out music. there is a well-known pleasure center in the brain. this is the same center, when you hook an electrode up to it, rats will keep pressing a button to stimulate it. they will give up food and sex to keep pressing stimulation to this area. it is the same error that is activated when compulsive gamblers are winning a bet or when drug addicts get their drug of choice. it modulates the brain's levels of dopamine my colleagues from stanford and i show that when you listen to music to like, found pleasurable, that eric is activated and it is modulating dopamine. a student of mine showed, she was able to get her hand on a radioactive tag for dopamine, so that we could fall in people's brains. dopamine was increased when people listen to pleasurable music. dopamine is involved, as many of the brands chemicals are, in many things, but it is also the pleasure hormone, the feel-good hormone. i am not saying it feels like winning a bet or taking a drug or having sex, but invoked the sam

the author of the "this is your brain on music. " i am a professor of psychology and behavioral neuroscience. i am delighted to introduce you to my friend, one of my famous -- favorite guitarists and musicians. he discovered the guitar at a young age. he has played at notable vilnius such as the -- notable venues such as montrose and carnegie hall. >> i would like to start by saying that in the last 15 or 20 years of my research, one thing i found most surprising as a musician myself in exploring music and the brain is how -- discovering where it is that music is. i always imagined as a player that the music was in my fingers. now i know is in the brain. it is a neuro-representation of the figures. music is in every part of the brain that we have mapped. there is no part of the brain that does not have something to do with music. i found that very surprising. i wondered if you find that surprising as a player and what your own intuitions were coming into it. >> i think my intuition is that music is something that gets received in some sense or another, like radio, like something you pick up.

is it clear freud would have wanted to be a neuroscience? >> without a doubt. >> oh, yes. >> he said "i'm giving up biology because it's sommature can't handle the questions i'm interesd in. i know when biology comes along andeals with a psychology cal problem, they're going t change it. it's going to all fall art because i vngtd been able to test these things." so he was modest. the problem with psychnalysis is not with freud. the problem is the people that came after him did not begin to imply empirical methods until very recently. >> rose: they rejected it. now the other thing i'm not sure i understand the capacity of the unconscious and its consequences is a measure of intelligence as we commonly think of it. >> to what dey intelligence determined by unconscious mental processes. >> we were just talking about this. >> it involves many different skills. in so far as it involves creativity, it many very well be importantlydependent upon the unique aspect of unconscious mental processes. >> we use the word wisdom we might come up with a dif

campus, cpmc proposes construction of a new four-story office building, also referred to as a neuroscience institute. the negative declaration was overturned by the board. this is now being evaluated through the larger eir, and it will be back again before the planning commission. there have been no substantive changes to this project since 2007. onto the land use approval. there are many land use approvals required. this is a very, very high-level overview. there is a lot of detail and jon, but in general terms, it will require an agreement and an eir that will cover all campuses. there will be planning code amendments before the project and general plan referrals at all three campuses. there will be conditional use operations at all three campuses and approvals required at st. luke's and cathedral house, and there'll be several other things require that are not heard directly by the planning commission, including a conveyance for a portion of sand is a avenue, the conversion of cedar to a two-way street, and caltrans approval, and with that, i will turn it back to can rich -- ken rich. >

. >> reporter: john donoghue is a professor of neuroscience and engineering and director of the brown university institute for brain science. he says his work has not progressed exponentially. but in only ten years he's been able to implant sensors in the brains of paralyzed patients enabling them to operate a computer, type, run a robotic limb simply by thinking, sending out brain signals. >> the value of the technology is first for people who are severely paralyzed. the first step is to give them any control at all. they can't do anything without help from someone else. people want and feel some sense of pride in taking care of themselves so anything we can restore is a great step. >> reporter: neuroscience has yielded other life altering advances. for instance, there are now over 75,000 parkinson patients worldwide who've had tiny electrodes implanted in their brains. doctors say the operation significantly reduces tremors and allows patients to rely less on medications. >> by the way, nobody is picketing, protesting, oh, people putting computers in their brains that that is someho

>> i'm a neuroscience major at colgate university. >> jay: okay. and grandma?r. >> jay: oh, a group -- oh, wow, a personal trainer. wow, very good. [ applause ] wow, that's very good. very good. and do you work out with your grandma? >> i have before. >> jay: you have before, but you don't really get into it. >> she's in better shape than i am. it's scary. >> jay: wow, she looks great, she looks great. and what? and you pulled the prank on your grandmother? >> yes. >> jay: oh, shame on you. [ i mean, did she deserv >> no. >> jay: no. >> no. >> jay: all right, let's take a a look and see what it is. >> you've got to get up. >> i can't. >> you have to. >> just sit on your knees. >> it's something lindsey made for you. >> i thought it was rachel. >> i'm afraid. [ screams ] [ laughter ] >> aww, they're cute. [ applause ] >> jay: what was that? what is that? and that was for hanukkah? >> yes. >> jay: so that means there are eight more days of rats? is that what that means? >> yeah, that's a smart idea. >> jay: did you keep the rats, grandma? >> no, i did not. thank

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replacement for saint luke's hospital, maintain limited hospital services in support of a specialized neuroscience facility and close down acute care facilities at california and pacific campuses. first, i want to thank colleagues and members of the public for your patience. this has been a long day. i have a feeling it's going to be longer. i know there are folks in the overflow room. we will be here as long as it takes to hear from everyone that wishes to provide public comment. cpmc's proposal would change san francisco's healthcare delivery system for generations to come as i think we all know and as one of the largest development projects in recent times, it would have extremely significant impacts on the local economy and job opportunities, our need for affordable housing, traffic conditions and transit issues as well as quality of life issues for residents and neighbors immediately surrounding the hospital sites and citywide. we know that negotiations over cpmc's proposal will determine how the project impacts disos affordable healthcare as well as the standard of living in our neighborhood

the author of the "this is your brain on music. " i am a professor of psychology and behavioral neuroscienceam delighted to introduce you to my friend, one of my famous -- favorite guitarists and musicians. he discovered the guitar at a young age. he has played at notable vilnius such as the -- notable venues such as montrose and carnegie hall. >> i would like to start by saying that in the last 15 or 20 years of my research, one thing i found most surprising as a musician myself in exploring musician myself in exploring music and the brain is how --

that is really the big question in cognitive neuroscience. it is not at all sounds are music. on records of chickens clucking, waterfalls falling, some of us do, but the real music come from this arrangement of organized sound we call music. i have to say, we do not really know. the closest we have got is music appears to be metaphorical for movement and instruments sometimes sound like a mother singing, crying. and the only thing we know for sure is that music is activating a lot of regions in the brain. i think the best explanation that i will propose now, tentatively, as it has to do with expectation and release. when we hear a piece of music, because it has a pulse, we almost always know when the next bibelot be, but we do not know what it will be. the job of the composer is to reward us by playing what we expect, but violating those expectations just often enough of the time to keep us interested. when the composer can violate those expectations in an interesting way and give us a resolution that we would have never predicted, then they have got us for life. the brain lov

in it neurosciences and a social clinical social worker collected paint chips. please see the display. thank you. collected paint chips near the boat house. these were taken to the center for environmental health in oakland to be tested. the test results were positive for lead. rec and park has not contaminated golden gate park, where children, elderly, and other go to play, rest, and relax. and there is an added concern and wildlife surrounding the boat house. there is strict laws governing the disturbance of lead paint. now in the process of power washing, sanding, and scraping lead chips and other particulates had been released into the air in the late in the park. we request an immediate reply and includes all actions that you will take to insure this contamination is immediately remedied and specific steps to ensure his gross mismanagement of our park never occurs again. [bell rings] from the state -- save the stowe lake but house coalition. >> good morning peter i am suzanne. it has been three weeks since we sent you that urgent letter she just read to you

one of the things i was asked to talk about is the neuroscience of trauma. i am going to do that briefly. but i also want to do -- i did a lot of good writing. in we really have, in terms of neuroscience, probably learned more about the effects of trauma and stress in the last 10 years than by any other psychiatric or neurologic disorder. remarkable. and so, now we know that experience changes the genome. we know how it does that, through the methods of genetics, changing methylation on specific parts of the gene. we changed gene products, which has an impact on brain structure and body structure. we have to remember that the brain is in charge of everything. anything that affects the brain will affect the body. and that is why, as you have heard time and again, that exposure to violence and trauma early in life, and throughout life, has such negative effects. not only on psychological health, but on physical health and functioning in general. if you look at the data of unemployment and homelessness, 100% of men on death row were abused. so, i think that we