This is just, it’s really a response to a lot of things that were said today, and in fact, it’s really really good that I’m right at the end of this panel, because I’m a walking example of what Diedrich [Diederichsen] was saying, and Martina [Wicklein] also, in a sense that neurotransmission and the kind of historical background. What I really want to do is propose a kind of call to arms, and it’s not a performance, it is a proposition, I am actually actively making a proposition towards a certain collectivization, not in a Stalinist sense, but perhaps an active resistance within the so-called…
I’m going to try to give you a very brief neurological perspective on drugs, and how they interact with the brain, and what they might do to the brain. But as you heard, from Warren’s introduction, I am by no means, an expert on drugs (in both ways). I’ll try to give you an idea of what the current thinking is on how drugs impose themselves on the brain. To do so, I’m just going to give you a brief introduction to some of the main players of the brain. I’m going to talk a little bit about neural synapses, because the synapse are key…
For today, much of what we have been hearing about is context, context in perception. Neuroscientist are usually interested in is how context affects what we see. But today I am going to focus on the question of why context matters. The effect of context is fundamental to everything that the brain does even what is most basic to the brain … seeing colour. One of the examples I am going to show here is a well known color contrast illusion vision. As a neuroscientist I get very excited about very simple effects and why this comes about.