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Join us the next In Conversation Live event with Professor Anil Seth, Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience Professor at the University of Sussex and Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Program on Brain, Mind and Consciousness. Joined by Pospo (Dr Sotiris Posporelis), Consultant Liaison Neuropsychiatrist at King’s College Hospital, they will discuss consciousness, perception, predictive processing, perceptual diversity and the Dreamachine in a special, more interactive format. Enjoy a complimentary drinks reception.
Professor Anil Seth is a neuroscientist, author, and public speaker who has pioneered research into the brain basis of consciousness for more than twenty years. His mission is to advance the science of consciousness and use its insights to benefit society, technology, and medicine. He is also a European Research Council Advanced Investigator, and Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Neuroscience of Consciousness. He has published more than 180 research papers and has been recognized by the Web of Science, over several years, as being in the top 0.1% of researchers worldwide. A former Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellow, his two TED talks, Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality (2017) and How your brain invents your "self" (2021), have been viewed more than thirteen million times, he has appeared in several films, and he has written for Aeon, The Guardian, Granta, New Scientist, and Scientific American and he is the lead scientist on the Dreamachine project. His new book Being You: A New Science of Consciousness was an instant Sunday Times Bestseller and a 2021 Book of the Year for The Economist, The New Statesman, Bloomberg Business, The Guardian, The Financial Times and elsewhere.
Pospo is a Consultant Liaison Neuropsychiatrist in the NHS and an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (King's College London). Employed by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, his main workplace is King's College Hospital, providing care for inpatients presenting with neuropsychiatric symptoms, but also runs a National Specialist Outpatient Neuropsychiatry Clinic. He completed his Psychiatry training at the Maudsley Training Programme and was awarded the RCPsych Researcher Trainee of the year in 2014, at the International RCPsych Conference. During this time, he also completed an 18-month clinical research fellowship at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, USA) working alongside Professor Akira Sawa. With a particular interest in education, he is the Maudsley Teaching Programme organiser, a Module Lead for the MSc in Clinical Neuropsychiatry (IoPPN) and a Firm Head for the GKT School of Medicine. He also serves as the London Division Academic Secretary of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and a contributor to the BMJ Best Practice.
*There may be slight changes to the advertised start and end times of this event, subject to Professor Anil Seth and Dr Sotiris Posporelis' work requirements.
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In person tickets sold out. Registration to attend virtually closes 21 February 2024 at 16:00pm (GMT)
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