Скачать или смотреть Dr. George Paxinos, Scientia Professor AO DSc FASSA FAA (Dist)FRSN FAHMS

Psychology lost its soul in the 1930s.
The concept of “soul” is not needed to either understand or modify behavior. Our brain is the riverbed that holds and channels our stream of consciousness (Koch, 2012). It is molded by family and culture. Experience sculpts our character from the genetic material we are granted as Phidias sculpted Apollo from a block of Parian marble. Alzheimer’s disease will pay an unwelcome visit to many of us at end of life. It will disrupt the internal structure of our neurons and we will be living evidence the mind is the product of the brain and has no influence on it. Which one of us would not like to discard our depression, anxieties, obsessions, compulsions, our unrequited love? It seems the puppet is free only in as much as it loves its strings (Harris, 2012).
Professor Paxinos will speak on the neuroscience behind A River Divided, a novel in the environmental genre that broke a record in the time it took him to complete–21 years. He will speak of the neuroscience principles on the formation of heroes of the novel, giving a historical account of the origin of ideas of the mind, the soul, free will and consciousness.

A lecture by
Dr. George Paxinos
Scientia Professor AO DSc FASSA FAA (Dist)FRSN FAHMS
NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, Neuroscience Research Australia,
one of the 63-scientists identified in the study “1821-2021 – Greek Pioneers in Medicine and Biomedical Sciences”, by ARISTEiA and ACG

Organised by
The Biomedical Sciences Program and the Environmental Studies Program, Department of Science and Mathematics, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Deree – The American College of Greece

When: Tuesday, January 11, 2022 | 14:10-15:10

PANEL
Dr. Paraskevi Papadopoulou
Head, Department of Science and Mathematics & Biomedical Sciences Program
Dr. Lena Pateraki
Head, Department of Psychology
Dr. Stella Apostolaki
Coordinator, Environmental Studies Program
Executive Director, Center of Excellence in Sustainability
Dr. Michail Fragkos
Molecular Biologist, Department of Science and Mathematics

Excerpts of the book will be read by the following students:
Georgia Sarakinou, ES/BMS student
Iliana Papadopoulous, BMS student
Iro Tsoutsa Del Rio, ES student
Zeid Rizkalla, ES student

Students assisting in the event:
Maria Veisllari, BMS student
Evangelia Papathanasiou, BMS student
Hayley Turner, ES student