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Thomas Insel | TED Speaker

The Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Thomas Insel supports research that will help us understand, treat and even prevent mental disorders.
Neuroscientist and psychiatrist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/thomas_insel

Oliver Sacks | TED Speaker

Since "Awakenings" stormed the bestseller lists (and the silver screen), Oliver Sacks has become an unlikely household name, single-handedly inventing the genre of neurological anthropology.
Neurological anthropologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/oliver_sacks

Daniel Levitin | TED Speaker

Daniel Levitin incorporates findings from neuroscience into everyday life.
Neuroscientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/daniel_levitin

Tony Wyss-Coray | TED Speaker

At his lab at Stanford School of Medicine, Tony Wyss-Coray studies aging -- and potential cures for it.
Brain scientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/tony_wyss_coray

Isaac Lidsky | TED Speaker

Isaac Lidsky has a very eclectic resume.
Author, entrepreneur
https://www.ted.com/speakers/isaac_lidsky

David Byrne | TED Speaker

David Byrne builds an idiosyncratic world of music, art, writing and film.
Musician, artist, writer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/david_byrne

Stuart Brown | TED Speaker

Stuart Brown's research shows play is not just joyful and energizing -- it's deeply involved with human development and intelligence. Through the National Institute for Play, he's working to better understand its significance.
Play researcher, psychiatrist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/stuart_brown

Matthieu Ricard | TED Speaker

Sometimes called the "happiest man in the world," Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk, author and photographer.
Monk, author, photographer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/matthieu_ricard

Carl Safina | TED Speaker

Carl Safina's writing explores the scientific, moral and social dimensions of our relationship with nature.
Ecologist, writer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/carl_safina

Shankar Vedantam | TED Speaker

Shankar Vedantam is a science writer obsessed with understanding why humans behave the way we do -- and what it says about us.
Journalist, podcast host
https://www.ted.com/speakers/shankar_vedantam

Gregory Petsko | TED Speaker

Gregory Petsko is a biochemist who studies the proteins of the body and their biochemical function. Working with Dagmar Ringe, he's doing pioneering work in the way we look at proteins and what they do.
Bioengineer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/gregory_petsko

Daniel H. Pink | TED Speaker

Daniel H. Pink is the author of several provocative, bestselling books about business, work, creativity and behavior.
Author
https://www.ted.com/speakers/daniel_pink

Monica Byrne | TED Speaker

Novelist, writer, culture critic and playwright Monica Byrne thinks that there's an infinite number of stories to tell, and she intends to tell as many as she can.
Author and playwright
https://www.ted.com/speakers/monica_byrne

Nora Brown | TED Speaker

Nora Brown sings ballads and plays traditional old-time music with a heavy interest in eastern Kentucky banjo playing.
Musician
https://www.ted.com/speakers/nora_brown

Marcus Byrne | TED Speaker

Marcus Byrne is fascinated by the way insects, particularly the intrepid dung beetle, have hardwired solutions to the challenges posed by their environments. Could they help humans solve problems?
Entomologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/marcus_byrne

Jeff Iliff | TED Speaker

Jeff Iliff is a neuroscientist who explores the unique functions of the brain.
Neuroscientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/jeff_iliff

Bruno Maisonnier | TED Speaker

Bruno Maisonnier founded Aldebaran Robotics, maker of the tiny, compelling humanoid Nao.
Roboticist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/bruno_maisonnier

David Baron | TED Speaker

David Baron writes about science in books, magazines, newspapers and for public radio. He formerly served as science correspondent for NPR and science editor for PRI’s The World.
Science writer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/david_baron

Sebastian Wernicke | TED Speaker

After making a splash in the field of bioinformatics, Sebastian Wernicke moved on to the corporate sphere, where he motivates and manages multidimensional projects.
Data scientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/sebastian_wernicke

Prosanta Chakrabarty | TED Speaker

Prosanta Chakrabarty studies fish to help explain the evolution of human beings and our planet.
Ichthyologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/prosanta_chakrabarty

Steve McCarroll | TED Speaker

Steve McCarroll is conducting groundbreaking research on the causes of mental illness.
Geneticist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/steve_mccarroll

Bernie Dunlap | TED Speaker

Bernie Dunlap is a true polymath, whose talents span poetry, opera, ballet, literature and administration. He is the president of South Carolina’s Wofford College.
College president
https://www.ted.com/speakers/ben_dunlap

Bruno Bowden | TED Speaker

An engineer with Google (he helped build Google Earth), Bruno Bowden is also an enthusiastic folder of paper.
Engineer and origamist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/bruno_bowden

Jeffrey Brown | TED Speaker

A key player in the "Boston miracle" that lowered the rate of youth crime and gang violence, Rev. Jeffrey Brown is a Baptist minister.
Pastor
https://www.ted.com/speakers/rev_jeffrey_brown

tobacco brown | TED Speaker

TED Resident tobacco brown is a social artist working at the public intersection of environmental art and restorative justice.
Social artist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/tobacco_brown

Jackson Browne | TED Speaker

Jackson Browne has written and performed some of the most literate and moving songs in popular music -- and has defined a genre of songwriting charged with honesty, emotion and personal politics.
Musician and activist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/jackson_brown

Frederick Streeter Barrett | TED Speaker

Frederick Streeter Barrett reveals how psychedelic experiences may allow us to tap into resources within ourselves to heal and to grow.
Psychedelic neuroscientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/frederick_streeter_barrett

Vilayanur Ramachandran | TED Speaker

Neurologist V.S. Ramachandran looks deep into the brain’s most basic mechanisms. By working with those who have very specific mental disabilities caused by brain injury or stroke, he can map functions of the mind to physical structures of the brain.
Brain expert
https://www.ted.com/speakers/vilayanur_ramachandran

Christina Costa | TED Speaker

Christina Costa teaches psychology to undergraduate and high school students and studies well-being and resilience.
Psychologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/christina_costa

Francis Collins | TED Speaker

A key player in the US' new brain-mapping project, Francis Collins is director of the National Institutes of Health.
Geneticist, physician
https://www.ted.com/speakers/francis_collins
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