Mind Brain Lecture Series
Supported by The Swartz Foundation, The Department of Neurobiology & Behavior annually hosts the Mind Brain Lecture
Series to spotlight advances in brain research. The mind has long been conceptualized as the internal space of thoughts, perceptions, and
memories. These phenomena are the brain in action. The Mind Brain Lecture Series
is open to the Stony Brook University Community and general public and each year highlights
a topic at the intersection of neuroscience and neural computation.
Videos below are full-length recordings of past Mind/Brain Lectures.
Anthony Zador, MD, PhD (2025)
The Alle Davis and Maxine Harrison Professor of Neuroscience, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Sabine Kastner, MD, PhD (2024)
Professor, Department of Psychology, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University
Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences and German National Academy of Sciences
Emery N. Brown, MD (2023)
Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General
Hospital
Donald Katz, PhD (2022)
Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Volen National Center
for Complex Systems, Brandeis University
Giulio Tononi, MD, PhD
David P. White Chair in Sleep Medicine & Distinguished Chair in Consciousness Science
University of Wisconsin
Roundtable (2016)
Alan Alda
Visiting Professor Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science
Eric R. Kandel, MD
Fred Kavli Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University
Senior Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Jim Simons, PhD
Chair of the Simons Foundation, Founder & Board Chair of Renaissance Technologies
LLC