Slideshow
Q&A with THEATER OF THOUGHT Film Subjects Rafael Yuste & Joseph LeDoux
Saturday, December 14
5:30
Screening presented as part of the Alfred P. Sloan Science on Screen® series, an initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theater, with major support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Rafael Yuste, M.D., Ph.D, is a neuroscientist at Columbia University, where he is Professor of Biological Sciences and Director of the Neurotechnology Center. Yuste and his laboratory pioneered the development of many imaging techniques in neuroscience. He led the researchers who proposed the US BRAIN Initiative and the International BRAIN Initiative. He also led the“Morningside” consortium who proposed novel human rights (“Neurorights”) to protect brain activity and brain data.
Joseph LeDoux is a Professor of Neural Science at New York University, where he also directs the Emotional Brain Institute. His work is focused on the brain mechanisms of emotion, memory, and consciousness. LeDoux is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is the author of several books, including The Emotional Brain, Synaptic Self, Anxious, The Deep History of Ourselves, and The Four Realms of Existence. LeDoux is also the lead singer and songwriter in the rock band, The Amygdaloids, and a musical, Map of Your Mind, based on his songs.
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Supported by a Humanities New York Action Grant
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