Albert Hofman: The Alzheimer Enigma: What Causes the Epidemic?
Dr Hofman is head of the Department of Epidemiology at the Erasmus Medical Center, Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health and the Science Director of the Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences. He is the principal investigator of the Rotterdam Study, a prospectice cohort study investigating the prevalence and incidence of and risk factors for cardiovascular, neurological, locomotor and ophthalmologic diseases in elderly people. His research focuses on neurological and cardiovascular diseases, mainly the...
read moreAlice Weaver Flaherty: The Biology of Patient’s Illness Behavior
Alice Flaherty is a writer, and an associate professor of neurology and psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on brain systems that control human drives, whether to walk, to communicate, or to create. In addition to scientific papers, she is the author of The Midnight Disease (a general audience book on the brain’s role in writer’s block and creativity), The MGH Handbook of Neurology (a textbook), and The Luck of the Loch Ness Monster (a children’s picture book about picky eating). Two have been dramatized. She has...
read moreGordon Cheng: Humanoid Robots and the Brain
Gordon Cheng is the Professor and Chair of Cognitive Systems, Institute for Cognitive Systems at the Technical University Munich. He has won the IEEE Gennai Medal in 2007 and is the co-inventor of approx. 15 patents and the author of approximately 200 technical publications, proceedings, editorials and books. His research interests include humanoid robotics, cognitive systems, brain-machine interfaces, biomimetic of human vision, computational neuroscience of vision, action understanding, human–robot interaction, active vision, mobile...
read moreJohn-Dylan Haynes: Brain research and free will
Dr. rer. nat. John-Dylan Haynes is Professor for Theory and Analysis of Large-Scale Brain Signals at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience and Director of Berlin Center for Advanced Neuroimaging BCAN. His research focuses on decoding neural representations of mental states such as consciousness, intention or attention. Professor Haynes will be speaking about brain research and the free will on the first day of our conference
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