Lectures on Tap - "How The Brain Controls Who You Are"
About this Event
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🧠 Lecture: "How The Brain Controls Who You Are"
🎤 Speaker: Professor Michael Cohen
Join us for a fascinating evening with Professor Michael Cohen as he explores how the brain shapes who we are. We like to think our character is stable and deeply rooted, but neuroscience tells a more surprising story.
Through gripping real-life cases, Professor Cohen will show how small changes in neural circuitry can dramatically alter a person’s behavior and identity. You’ll hear about a gentle father who becomes impulsively aggressive after a minor stroke, a model employee whose reckless choices are traced to a tumor in his frontal lobe, and a man with severe amnesia who wakes each day believing it’s the first day of his recovery, his sense of self shattered into fragments.
These stories reveal a radical idea: our identity is inseparable from the three pounds of tissue inside our skull.
Professor Michael Cohen is a Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at Amherst College and a Research Scientist at MIT.
Don’t miss this chance to gain fresh insight into the neuroscience of identity.
Get a drink, connect, and learn at Lectures on Tap! 🙌
Agenda
6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.
6:55 PM – Host introduction
7:00 PM – Lecture begins
7:45 PM – Audience Q&A
8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round
8:30 PM – Wrap up.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 39.19
