Your Brain on Drugs - Online

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🎫 Ticket for Your Brain on Drugs - Online live stream talk and Q&A
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Experience information
📅 Date: Monday 25th May 2020
🕒 Time: 7 pm
⏳ Duration: the talk will be around an hour long, with the Q&A beginning immediately after
📌 Location: your home! This experience is entirely online
🎤 Speaker: Prof. David Nutt is currently the Edmond J. Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London, Chair of DrugScience and President of the European Brain Council. David has previously worked as an advisor to the Ministry of Defence, Department of Health and the Home Office. He broadcasts widely both on radio and television including BBC science.
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Topics

• How the basic processes of brain function have developed
• How the brain interacts with psychoactive drugs
• About neurotransmitters such as serotonin, hormones such as cortisol, and how they help us understand mental health disorders
• How alterations in brain function lead to disorders of the mind

Description
The brain is the physical place where the mind resides; it is the vessel in which the electronic impulses that create thought are contained. With your brain, you coordinate your movements, your organism, and your activities, but you also think—you muse at what happened in the past, what is happening in the present and what might happen in the future. All psychoactive substances, from coffee to pharmaceuticals to street drugs, change the way the mind operates. In this illuminating talk, world-famous brain scientist Professor David Nutt will cover the range of understandings that modern science has given us into the evolving function of the brain and how it interacts with psychoactive drugs. Come and learn everything our brain has managed to discover about itself!