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9-10:30 a.m., Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge (by invitation only)

Graduate students are welcome to apply to help lead MBB’s 2017-2018 undergraduate thesis workshops. Our thesis program brings together seniors from all MBB tracks who are doing thesis research, to discuss their projects and eventually their findings as...

DANIEL LEVITIN, Ph.D. WEAPONIZED LIES: AN AMERICAN NEUROSCIENTIST SPEAKS ON THE POST-TRUTH ERA Post-Talk Commentary by Jennifer Hochschild, Ph.D. 5:00 PM Wednesday, 5 April (Reception at 4:30) Austin 200 Ames Court Room 1515 Mass. Ave. Cambridge The...

Austin Hall 100, Harvard Law School 1515 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge Poverty, we often hear it discussed as a societal concern, but how well do we really understand the implications. Is all poverty the same or are there subcultures of which we should be...

MBB Distinguished Harvard Lecture Emery Brown, M.D., Ph.D. 4:00 PM, March 22, 2017 Pound 101, 1563 Massachusetts Avenue General anesthesia is a drug-induced, reversible condition comprised of five behavioral states: unconsciousness, amnesia (loss of...

5:15-6:45 PM, William James Hall, B1 Presentations Jerome Kagan, PhD John Gabrieli, PhD John Quackenbush, PhD Judith Edersheim, JD, MD Each speaker will give a brief presentation and then participate in a panel discussion moderated by Joshua Buckholtz...

5:00-6:30 PM, B1 William James Hall Presentations David Cox, PhD Julie Shah, PhD Sendhil Mullainathan, PhD Jonathan Zittrain, JD Each speaker will give a brief presentation and then participate in a panel discussion moderated by Stuart Shieber, PhD. A...

HELEN MAYBERG, M.D. 5:00 PM Tuesday, 5 April WHAT HAS DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION TAUGHT US ABOUT THE NEUROCIRCUITRY OF DEPRESSION? Introduction by David Silbersweig, M.D. Post-Talk Commentary by Alvaro Pascual-Leone, M.D., Ph.D. 5:00 PM Thursday, 7 April...

Wednesday, October 1 5pm Northwest Building, B-103 Neuroeconomics as a Unifying Approach Towards Understanding the Human Mind and Individual Behavior In this presentation I argue that neuroeconomics can provide a unifying approach to understand both the...

Tuesday, September 30, 2014 5pm Northwest Building, B-103 The Neurobiology of Human Altruism Human altruism shaped our evolutionary history and pervades social and political life. There are, however, enormous individual differences in altruism. Some...