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What Is This Thing Called "Love"? - Professor Glenn D Wilson
How hormones, phermones and bonding chemicals connect with the experiences of sexual arousal and romantic love. To what extent are we victims of our brain chemistry and neural processes? What are the evolutionary origins and adaptive values of "falling in love"? http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/what-is-this-thing-called-%E2%80%9Clove%E2%80%9DCollected in GreshamCollege's videos Apr 5, 2011 -
Future Brain - Professor Keith Kendrick
Just how near are we to using our brains routinely to control machines for work or leisure purposes? Will we be able to improve the performance of our existing brains? Have advances in neuroscience, neural network modelling and the physical sciences led us to the point where it could soon be possible to create artificial, nanoscale brains and where might such technology lead us? The lecture can be downloaded or read on the Gresham College website here: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/future-bCollected in GreshamCollege's videos Mar 24, 2011 -
London After Dark: Saving Londoners’ Lives - Peter Bradley
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19th Century: Cholera - Professor Bohumil Drassar
Professor Bohumil Drassar, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Author of Cholera in the Wellcome History of Tropical Diseases.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Feb 12, 2011 -
Why do we gamble and take needless risks? - Professor Keith Kendrick - Gresham College Lectures
It could be said that risk taking, combined with a capacity for being motivated by failure, has allowed the human race to advance at such speed. These characteristics have made major contributions to the success of human artistic, scientific and commercial endeavours.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Sep 15, 2010 -
'When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child and I acted as a child...' - Professor Keith Kendrick - Gresham College Lectures
But are modern children growing up too fast? There is increasing pressure to grow up faster as a result of our work orientated culture, educational systems, celebrity icons, entertainment and the media.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Sep 15, 2010 -
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue: The true story of Gulf War Syndrome - Professor Simon Wessely - Gresham College Lectures
Simon Wessely is professor of psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, and director of the King's Centre for MIlitary Health Research. He is co-author of a new book, From Shell Shock to PTSD, Psychology Press, 2005.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Sep 14, 2010 -
The Psychology of Seduction - Is life a seduction? - Professor Raj Persaud - Gresham College Lectures
Some people seem to be 'simply irresistible' - the title of Professor Persaud's new book on attraction - but is attractiveness something you are either born with or not? Can you learn how to become more attractive?Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Sep 14, 2010 -
The pathology of discovery and conquest - Professor Linda Newson - Gresham College Lectures
This lecture examined the spread of diseases that accompanied European expansion overseas from the fifteenth century, paying particular attention to their demographic impact in Americas. All our lectures are available for free download from the Gresham College website, in video, audio or text formats: http://www.gresham.ac.uk Gresham College professors and guest speakers have been giving free public lectures in central London since 1597.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Sep 14, 2010 -
The mapping of emotion - Dr Essi Viding - Gresham College Lectures
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Professor Mary L. Phillips was unable to give this lecture.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Sep 14, 2010 -
New directions for home treatment of eating disorders - Professor Janet Treasure PhD FRCP FRCPsych - Gresham College Lectures
"Professor Janet Treasure PhD FRCP FRCPsych, Department of Academic Psychiatry All our lectures are available for free download from the Gresham College website, in video, audio or text formats: http://www.gresham.ac.uk Gresham College professors and guest speakers have been giving free public lectures in central London since 1597. This tradition continues today and you can attend any of our lectures, or watch or listen to them on our website.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Sep 11, 2010 -
The future biology of happiness: lifestyle changes or recreational drugs? - Professor Keith Kendrick - Gresham College Lectures
We find the achievement of an inner state of happiness elusive, yet the standard of living in the developed world improves. Politics, industry, science, art, the media and religion all attempt to make our lives happier.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Sep 11, 2010 -
Power Play - The hidden role of power in our lives and relationships - Professor Raj Persaud - Gresham College Lectures
Power is wielded against us all the time. It is not just our bosses or work colleagues who seem to inveigle upon us - but politicians and the local council.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Sep 11, 2010 -
Pathogens and parasites; plagues and pandemics - Professor Christopher Dye - Gresham College Lectures
The earliest gains in life expectancy were made by understanding infectious diseases, first through epidemiology and then through microbiology. So what processes govern the spread of infections in populations?Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Sep 11, 2010 -
The God gene - religion and altruism - Professor Keith Ward DD FBA - Gresham College Lectures
Can morality survive without religion? Sociobiology and evolutionary explanations of morality.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Sep 11, 2010 -
Social anxiety and its treatment - Professor David M Clark D.Phil FBA FMedSci - Gresham College Lectures
Anxiety is a common experience that can be a useful motivator or even life-saver in situations that are objectively dangerous. However, when the anxiety is out of proportion to the danger inherent in a given situation, is persistent and is markedly disabling, an anxiety disorder is likely to be diagnosed.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Sep 11, 2010 -
The times of our lives: a history of longevity - Professor Christopher Dye - Gresham College Lectures
Notwithstanding bible stories, the average human lifespan has reached ""three score years and ten"" only through spectacular increases in the past two centuries, and only in the richer half of the world. Among the 60 million people who die each year, 10 million are children under five, mostly in poor countries.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Sep 11, 2010 -
London can take it - psychological reactions to terrorism from the blitz to Bin Laden - Professor Simon Wessely - Gresham College Lectures
Professor Simon Wessely, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London This was the first of a series of three lectures promoting public understanding of psychiatry. The other two lectures took place on Wednesday 14 March and Wednesday 16 May 2007 All our lectures are available for free download from the Gresham College website, in video, audio or text formats: http://www.gresham.ac.uk Gresham College professors and guest speakers have been giving free public lectures in central London since 1597.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Sep 9, 2010 -
Hygeia and Panacea: Is prevention better than cure? - Professor Christopher Dye - Gresham College Lectures
Better sanitation and hygiene, coupled with immunization, have dramatically reduced illness caused by exposure to microbes. For those who do fall ill, a galaxy of drugs and medical procedures have been invented to treat conditions of all kinds.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Sep 8, 2010
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