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Allan Jones | TED Speaker

As CEO of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, Allan Jones leads an ambitious project to build an open, online, interactive atlas of the human brain.
Brain scientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/allan_jones

Suzana Herculano-Houzel | TED Speaker

Suzana Herculano-Houzel shrunk the human brain by 14 billion neurons -- by developing a new way to count them.
Neuroscientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/suzana_herculano_houzel

Dave Brain | TED Speaker

Dave Brain studies the plasma environments and atmospheres of unmagnetized planets.
Planetary scientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/dave_brain

Tali Sharot | TED Speaker

Tali Sharot studies why our brains are biased toward optimism.
Cognitive neuroscientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/tali_sharot

Paul Bloom | TED Speaker

Paul Bloom explores some of the most puzzling aspects of human nature, including pleasure, religion, and morality.
Psychologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/paul_bloom

Christopher deCharms | TED Speaker

Christopher deCharms is working on a way to use fMRI scans to show brain activity -- in real time.
Brain researcher
https://www.ted.com/speakers/christopher_decharms

Kim Gorgens | TED Speaker

Kim Gorgens studies the brain's response to injury -- and advocates that we mind our (gray) matter.
Neuropsychologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/kim_gorgens

Gero Miesenboeck | TED Speaker

Using light and a little genetic engineering -- optogenetics -- Gero Miesenboeck has developed a way to control how living nerve cells work, and advanced understanding of how the brain controls behavior.
Optogeneticist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/gero_miesenboeck

Jill Bolte Taylor | TED Speaker

Brain researcher Jill Bolte Taylor studied her own stroke as it happened -- and has become a powerful voice for how we can choose to replace our stress, fear and anxiety with feelings of joy and deep inner peace.
Neuroanatomist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/jill_bolte_taylor

Michael Merzenich | TED Speaker

Michael Merzenich studies neuroplasticity -- the brain's powerful ability to change itself and adapt -- and ways we might make use of that plasticity to heal injured brains and enhance the skills in healthy ones.
Neuroscientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/michael_merzenich

Charles Limb | TED Speaker

Charles Limb is a doctor and a musician who researches the way musical creativity works in the brain.
Researcher
https://www.ted.com/speakers/charles_limb

David Anderson | TED Speaker

Through his lab at the California Institute of Technology, David Anderson seeks to find the neural underpinnings of emotions like fear, anxiety and anger.
Neurobiologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/david_anderson

Xu Liu | TED Speaker

In his groundbreaking work, Xu Liu investigated how to activate and deactivate specific memories in mice.
Neuroscientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/xu_liu

Kwabena Boahen | TED Speaker

Kwabena Boahen wants to understand how brains work -- and to build a computer that works like the brain by reverse-engineering the nervous system. His group at Stanford is developing Neurogrid, a hardware platform that will emulate the cortex’s inner workings.
Bioengineer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/kwabena_boahen

Dan Reisel | TED Speaker

Dan Reisel searches for the roots of human behavior, including the development of morality.
Neuroscientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/daniel_reisel

David Eagleman | TED Speaker

David Eagleman decodes the mysteries of the tangled web of neurons and electricity that make our minds tick -- and also make us human.
Neuroscientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/david_eagleman

Ben Ambridge | TED Speaker

Ben Ambridge is the author of "Psy-Q," a sparkling book debunking what we think we know about psychology.
Psychologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/ben_ambridge

Daniel Wolpert | TED Speaker

A neuroscientist and engineer, Daniel Wolpert studies how the brain controls the body.
Movement expert
https://www.ted.com/speakers/daniel_wolpert

Andres Lozano | TED Speaker

The chair of neurosurgery at the University of Toronto, Andres Lozano has pioneered the use of deep brain stimulation for treating Parkinson’s, depression, anorexia and Alzheimer’s disease.
Neurosurgeon
https://www.ted.com/speakers/andres_lozano

Uri Hasson | TED Speaker

Why do great thoughts and stories resonate so strongly with so many people, and how do we communicate them? Using fMRI experiments, Uri Hasson is looking for the answers.
Neuroscientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/uri_hasson

Anil Seth | TED Speaker

How can the "inner universe" of consciousness be explained in terms of mere biology and physics? Anil Seth explores the brain basis of consciousness and self.
Cognitive neuroscientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/anil_seth

Nancy Kanwisher | TED Speaker

Using fMRI imaging to watch the human brain at work, Nancy Kanwisher’s team has discovered cortical regions responsible for some surprisingly specific elements of cognition.
Brain researcher
https://www.ted.com/speakers/nancy_kanwisher

Siddharthan Chandran | TED Speaker

Siddharthan Chandran explores how to heal damage from degenerative disorders such as MS and motor neuron disease (ALS).
Regenerative neurologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/siddharthan_chandran

Sebastian Seung | TED Speaker

Sebastian Seung is a leader in the new field of connectomics, currently the hottest space in neuroscience, which studies, in once-impossible detail, the wiring of the brain.
Computational neuroscientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/sebastian_seung

Alix Generous | TED Speaker

Alix Generous is a college student and biology researcher with Asperger syndrome. She stresses the importance of building accepting environments for all kinds of minds.
Advocate
https://www.ted.com/speakers/alix_generous

Eleanor Longden | TED Speaker

Eleanor Longden overcame her diagnosis of schizophrenia to earn a master’s in psychology and demonstrate that the voices in her head were “a sane reaction to insane circumstances.”
Research psychologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/eleanor_longden

Read Montague | TED Speaker

What does "normal behavior" look like? To find out, Read Montague is imaging thousands of brains at work.
Behavioral Neuroscientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/read_montague

Rajesh Rao | TED Speaker

Rajesh Rao seeks to understand the human brain through computational modeling, on two fronts: developing computer models of our minds, and using tech to decipher the 4,000-year-old lost script of the Indus Valley civilization.
Computational neuroscientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/rajesh_rao

Miguel Nicolelis | TED Speaker

Miguel Nicolelis explores the limits of the brain-machine interface.
Neuroscientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/miguel_nicolelis

David Pizarro | TED Speaker

David Pizarro is a psychologist interested in how certain emotions (disgust, fear, anger) affect our moral judgment.
Psychologist, Disgust researcher
https://www.ted.com/speakers/david_pizarro
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