Monday, February 27, 2:00-3:30pm Leigha Lee Browne Theatre, UTSC All welcome: Please RSVP to ctl-events @utsc.utoronto.ca Light refreshments served Directions to the Theatre: Walk down the third floor of the S-wing to the new part of the building, and enter the theatre by taking a left and going downstairs. Erin L. Webster, Art History (faculty) […]
Tags: Art, art history, colour, diversity, Ecology, flowers, mental health, neuroscience, ornament, plants, space
On Colour, February 27, 2012
On Pain, October 6 2010
On Pleasure, January 28 2009
Wednesday, October 6, 4:00-6:00 pm, Gradroom at Grad House, 66 Harbord St, Toronto. All are welcome. No advance registration is required. RSVP on Facebook Presentations: The Neurobiology of Pain Massih Moayedi (Neuroscience) Pain is a complex, multidimensional experience. It has been defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain as an unpleasant sensory […]
Tags: aging, artificial feedback therapy, chronic pain, emotions, medication, neurobiology, neuroscience, pain, psychology, rehabilitation, suffering, surgeryFeeling and Thinking: Pleasure and the Brain Sarah Johnson (Neuroscience) This talk will offer a behavioural neuroscientist’s perspective on the biological purpose and process of pleasure. First, a description of the basic brain circuit that responds to rewarding events will explain how exactly we “feel” what we feel when we feel good. Then, a brief […]
Tags: anthropology, brain, Classics, deliciousness, food, neuroscience, pleasure, sex