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EVOLUTION OF THE BRAIN: HOW DOES THE WORLD CHANGE US?
Mo, 4 November
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12:00 - 13:30
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Conference Hall 2
(Pavilion 7)
(Pavilion 7)
Future of Civilizations
Expert Discussion
Future Health
Center for Language and Brain, HSE University
The human brain is often referred to as the most complex object in the Universe. Its capabilities are yet to be explored. Experts will talk about what new discoveries and technologies in neuroscience research will affect our future, what the humans of tomorrow will be like and how radically their appearance and behavior will change.
Questions for discussion
- What do we currently know about how the brain works?
- What discoveries will reveal the true nature of the human brain, and will AI assist in this?
- Where is the frontier of neuroscience – in the operating room, on the psychologist’s couch, or inside a pill?
- Is telepathy possible, and when will we be able to communicate without words?
- Will mankind cure depression and dementia, cope with strokes and tumors?
- What will neurorehabilitation be like? How to repair the connections between brain and body?
Moderators
Alexey Payevskiy
science journalist, head of the press service of the Federal Research Center of Problems of Chemical Physics and Medicinal Chemistry RAS, editor-in-chief of the Neuronovosti portal
Speakers
Olga Dragoy
Director, Center for Language and Brain, HSE University
Vyacheslav Dubynin
Neurophysiologist, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor at the Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Dmitry Kopachev
Neurosurgeon at the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution Research Center of Neurology
Mikhail Lebedev
Neurophysiologist and Developer of Brain-Computer Interfaces, Professor at Moscow State University, Head of the Laboratory of Neurotechnology at the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Tatyana Shishkovskaya
Junior Researcher at the Center for Language and Brain, HSE University; Junior Researcher at the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution Mental Health Research Center; Psychiatrist
Matteo Feurra
Leading Researcher, Institute of Cognitive Neurosciences, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Italy