Neuroplasticity, Memory and Human Potential

UCSF Video Description: Google Tech Talks from Dr. Michael M. Merzenich on Think Faster,Focus Better and Remember More-Rewiring Our Brain To Stay Younger and Smarter about Neuroplasticity, Memory and Human

How Your Brain Can Turn Anxiety into Calmness

UCSF Video Description: Physician, author, speaker, researcher, and consultant Martin L. Rossman, MD, discusses how to use the power of the healing mind to reduce stress and anxiety, relieve pain,

The Importance of Emotional Intelligence

Description of Yale School of Management Video: Jeffrey Bewkes YC '74, chairman and CEO of Time Warner, gives a Leaders Forum lecture Apri 8, 2010, on his career, the importance

The Healing Power of Mindfulness

Description of Dartmouth College Video: The Tucker Foundation and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center present Jon Kabat-Zinn,"The Healing Power of Mindfulness" at Dartmouth College.

The Happy Secret To Better Work

Speech video description from TED: We believe that we should work to be happy, but could that be backwards? In this fast-moving and entertaining talk, psychologist Shawn Achor argues that

The Human Knowledge Project

University Video Description from UNC: Siva discusses dangers in Google book project as a flawed model for a global knowledge library. This was the SILS 2007-08 Henderson Lecture.

When The Mind Matters For Morality

University Video Description from NYU: Liane Young, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Boston College. Abstract: Mental state reasoning is critical for moral cognition, allowing us to distinguish, for example, murder from manslaughter.

Building Capacity For A Pluralistic Society

University Video Description from Penn State: This presentation was given by Daryl Smith, professor of education and psychology at The Claremont Graduate University, on Friday, March 27, 2009, at 1:30