Window to the brain – UChicago Medicine [Video]

Individual neurons in the brain can be distinguished from neighboring neurons using fluorescent proteins in this “Brainbow” (Lichtman et al).

For the past 30 some odd years, William Newsome, PhD, Director of the Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University, has been working to understand biology behind the brain’s most complex functions, such as visual perception and decision-making. How? By studying the brain, one neuron at a time. At first blush, this may seem a Sisyphean task (roughly analogous to reverse engineering a supercomputer one transistor at a time). But it is in fact a remarkably fruitful approach, yielding numerous fundamental insights into the innermost workings of our brains.

Professor William Newsome will speak about the neuroscience of perception and decision making at the first Mind and Brain Annual Public Lecture on Monday May 16, 2016

This Monday, May 16, Newsome will speak about this particular branch of neuroscience – the good, the bad, and the ugly – and look …