Wednesday November 14th 12:00pm-1:00pm
Armenise Amphitheatre, 210 Longwood Ave.
Speaker: Robert Brooks, PhD
- What are the best strategies for reducing stress and leading a more resilient, meaningful life? Renowned speaker and author Robert Brooks will share insights and anecdotes that highlight the importance of emphasizing personal control, maintaining connections to minimize feelings of loneliness, practicing therapeutic lifestyle changes, engaging in contributory activities and expressing gratitude towards others in order to enrich the lives of others and provide health benefits for ourselves
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Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI)
Wednesday November 14th 2:00-3:00pm
42 Church St. Cambridge MA
Brain disorders affect more than a billion people worldwide. Yet cures are few and treatment options inadequate. Traditional ways of examining the brain, such as using an fMRI, have poor resolution and are unable to pinpoint the exact molecular changes causing disease. However, novel technologies are being developed that let scientist peer inside the brain like never before. This includes tools that allow cells and molecules to be imaged with nanoscale precision, as well technologies to enable the activation and silencing of brain activity with light. These technologies, while designed for the brain, also are starting to have impact on the fields of cancer, immunity, and infectious disease, and thus may generally help with the understanding and confrontation of global health challenges.
Dr. Boyden
is the Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology at MIT, associate professor of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT's Media Lab and McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and was recently selected to be an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (2018).
Harvard Law School
November 16th-17th 2018
A two day conference with the goal of generating a discussion about the everyday impact of racism on the lives of people of color and how we as a profession and as professionals will address it. We draw on both “the usual suspects” and cutting-edge thinkers/researchers to generate conversations through presentations, panels and break-out groups involving three major themes: Mental Illness Outside the White Paradigm; Impact of Racism on Mental Health; and Race, Mental Illness and the Justice System. Co-sponsored by the Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee.
Fridays 10:00-11:50am, William James Hall 1550
Fall 2018 Schedule:
November 30th: Sylvie Schuster - University Hospital, Basel Switzerland
December 7th: Warwick Anderson - University of Sydney
