The Talks

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  Special Event: Dr. Allen Frances, How Well Does Freud's Work Stand the Test of Time?

  Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre, Strand Campus, King's College London

  7:00pm | 10 June 2013
  Allen Frances MD was the Chair of the Task Force that prepared the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV), often called the bible of the American psychiatric profession... [Read more]

• 2

  The Brain, Free Will and the Inner Life

  Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre, Strand Campus, King's College London

  6:30pm | 18 October 2012
  Neuroscientific models of the mind have tended to prioritize cognition, rational choice and decision making. Contemporary philosophers have also focussed in on consciousness. Meanwhile writers, artists and psychoanalysts have often found such models too limited and stressed the unconscious work the mind does and the sheer complexity of the inner life... [Read more]

• 3

  Darwin, Biology and the Brain's Order and Disorders

  B5 Lecture Theatre, Franklin-Wilkins Building, King's College London Waterloo Campus, Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH

  6:30pm | 22 November 2012
  How seriously should we take Darwinian hypotheses in formulating ideas about the mind? The old nature-nurture arguments have gained added heft and new twists with our sophisticated brain-mapping and genetic technologies. In the US, the NIMH has recently put funds into mapping disorder in the brain, which, it is claimed, can be linked to schizophrenia as well as bipolar depression... [Read more]

• 4

  The Workings of Empathy

  Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre, Strand Campus, King's College London

  6:30pm | Tuesday 4 December 2012
  Recent neuroscientific work has brought to light the existence of ‘mirror neurones'. It has been shown that patients suffering certain kinds of brain damage are unable to experience particular emotions in themselves or to recognize them in others... [Read more]

• 5

  Autism and the Concept of Psychological Normality

  The Old Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Sixth Floor, King's Building, Strand Campus, King's College London

  6:30pm | 31 January 2013
  What do autistic spectrum disorders tell us about normal psychological development? Francesca Happé, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry (King's College London) famously devised the Strange Stories test in which she established that persons suffering from ASDs had difficulty making sense of ambiguity... [Read more]

• 6

  The Gendered Brain

  Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre, Strand Campus, King's College London

  6:30pm | 26 February 2013
  Scores of neuroscientific studies have focused on gender differences in the male and female brain - from aggression centres to emotion processing to systematizing and verbal abilities... [Read more]

• 7

  You Must Remember This

  Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre, Strand Campus, King's College London

  6:30pm | 28 March 2013
  Throughout the last two decades research on memory has played an important part in neuroscientific investigations of learning as well as disorder. Meanwhile writers and artists have long contended that memory and imagination are part and parcel of the same fabric... [Read more]

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