Sex, Drugs, and Firing Neurons: This Is Your Brain on Cognition

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/04/Baroness_Susan_Greenfield_Is_Online_Networking_Harmful

Neuroscientist Susan Greenfield describes the brain's cognitive processes for interpreting and learning from new sensations. Greenfield claims thrill-seeking -- "sex, drugs, and rock and roll" -- undermines these processes, recreating the sense of new experiences. "You never say, 'Oh, I'm going to have a really cognitive time tonight.'"

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With a recent study showing that up to 97% of Australians aged 16-17 use at least one social networking site, should we be worried? Increasingly children are raised in front of television and computer screens. What are the effects that this can have on brain development? Do websites like Twitter and Facebook contribute to a culture of short term attentiveness?

Baroness Susan Greenfield is a neuroscientist at Oxford University and argues that we should be increasingly wary of how the changing technological environment is affecting the minds of the young. - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Baroness Susan Greenfield is a British scientist, writer, broadcaster, and member of the House of Lords. Greenfield, whose specialty is the physiology of the brain, has worked to research and bring attention to Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

Greenfield is Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology at Lincoln College, Oxford, and Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. On February 1, 2006, she was installed as Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.

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[frankroto]

Cick on the "more info" link and you'll see the link to the complete video.

[1DennisK]

@Ontologistics: Yes, like so many of those Oxford professors and researchers, recipients of honorary knighthoods, and members of the House of Lords, she's quite primitive isn't she. BTW, what have you done lately?

[spacecowboy95]

This woman is so full of hot air it's not funny. I'm glad she got fired from her positions at the RI and I'm glad she's being attacked by proper scientists for at the stupid, unfounded claims she makes.

[VinkoRajic]

I can use telepathy, I can exchange voice, video, smell, people can move small move muscles on my body from distance and more.

What I find most fascinating my telepathy is nearly identical what Schizophrenics experience.

My telepathy manifest itself exact like  "Schneider's first-rank symptoms".

[samg169]

HairLikeCottonCandy - She is talking about the two activities being similar in terms of them being sensory experiences rather than cognitive, why don't you sell your anti-drugs message to someone who is interested. And DrMontague, women weren't just put on this earth as penis recipients, we do have other skills and abilities.

[HairLikeCottonCandy]

How in the world is white water rafting equivalent to taking drugs? An experience like that would be very mentall stimulating, memorable and engaging! Clearly she isn't a physical fitness enthusiast.

[DrMontague]

I bet Susan Green Greenfield is a bundle of fun in bed. Feel sorry for her hubby. Hurry up and finish shagging darling I've got a lecture to prepare!

[DrMontague]

No them folk still have a sense of control. They do not rurn into rapists, or murderers. They still have a sense of reality otherwise they wouldn't get home.

[DrMontague]

From the author shirley Jackson The Haunting of Hill House.

[DrMontague]

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone

[thoth27]

this was rather underwhelming

it is as superficial as something youd hear on the news, or read in the paper while taking a shit.

[ParArdua]

She is such an excellent communicator.

She's able to get some complex concepts across to a lay public who are hungry for science, and angry at the power of hysterical and greedy organisations such as the Amerikan Enterprise Institute and Exxon Mobil who've hijacked Climate Change, alternative fuels and progressive politics.