Brain Awareness Week Lecture "Sex, drugs, brains and politics"
14th March 2013
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Berrill Lecture Theatre.
As part of the University's work for Brain Awareness Week, Emeritis Professor Frederick Toates is giving a special lecture entitled "Sex, drugs, brains and politics". In this lecture he will draw on a wide variety of evidence leading us to an understanding that the human brain is organized in a hierarchical structure. In particular he will focus on how this organisation gives rise to various behaviours ranging from logical reasoning, how people become addicted, through homicide, to voting choices in elections. The lecture is open to the general public and will be of interest to both those with a scientific or a non-scientific background as well as those studying GSCEs or A-levels in Psychology or Biology. The lecture itself will last 1 hour with no more than 30 minutes of Q&A. Note that this event is being recorded and may be made available to the public via the internet. Audience members are therefore participants in this process.
Frederick Toates is Emeritus Professor of Biological Psychology in the Open University. An author of 12 books, he has had experience of teaching undergraduates in America, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Romania and Moldova. His OU teaching experience extends over more than 34 years. The most recent book is Biological Psychology (3rd ed.) and the article on which this lecture builds was published in The Journal of Sex Research in 2009. His research is mainly into the brain mechanisms of motivation.
This event is being organised by Dr Ellie Dommett and sponsored by the British Neuroscience Association.