The Brain Series with Charlie Rose

Charlie Rose, an interviewer with depth on Bloomberg TV, has been offering a monthly series on the brain since October 2009 with a wealth of neuroscientists and researchers. Listed below are links to the first six episodes, along with the transcript for each (in a future blog, other approaches in modern neuroscience, with greater emphasis on what happens to the mindful or meditative brain, will be addressed):

• Episode 1: The Great Mysteries of the Human Brain: consciousness, free will, perception, cognition, emotion and memory with a roundtable of brain researchers. Co-Host Eric Kandel from Columbia University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Cornelia Bargmann from Rockefeller University, Tony Movshon from New York University, John Searle from University of California Berkeley and Gerald Fischbach of the Simons Foundation. For the transcript click here
• Episode 2: The Perceiving Brain – Sight and Visual Perception. With scientists Eric Kandel, Tony Movshon, Nancy Kanwisher, Ted Adelson, Pawan Sinha. For the transcript click here
• Episode 3: The Acting Brain - with Eric Kandel, Daniel Wolpert (Univ. Cambridge), John Krakauer (Columbia), Tom Jessell (Columbia) and Robert Brown (U Mass). For the transcript click here
• Episode 4: The Social Brain with panelists Cornelia Bargmann of Rockefeller University; Giacomo Rizzolatti of the University of Parma (Italy), Gerald Fischbach of the Simons Foundation, Kevin Pelphrey of Yale University and co-host Eric Kandel of Columbia University. For the transcript click here
• Episode 5: The Developing Brain with Patricia Kuhl of University of Washington, Elizabeth Spelke of Harvard University, Stephen Warren of Emory University, and Huda Zoghbi of the Baylor College of Medicine and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Co-hosted by Eric Kandel of Columbia University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute For the transcript click here
• Episode 6: The Aging Brain with Brenda Milner of McGill University, Larry Squire of the University of California San Diego, John Hardy of University College London, and Scott Small of Columbia University. Co-hosted by Eric Kandel of Columbia University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. For the transcript click here