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Professor Baroness Greenfield is a distinguished scientist, broadcaster, writer and best selling author of 'The Human Brain: A Guided Tour' and 'Brain Story' among others. She is a Professor of Pharmacology at Oxford, which she holds jointly with her position as Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. She has presented numerous TV and radio programmes, but is probably best known for "Brain Story," a major six part series on the brain and mind, broadcast on BBC2 in July 2000. join our discussion
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Do you think in terms of popular science there are avenues we haven't exploited or fully explored? Do you think it's possible to use everyday language to communicate science? How difficult is it to quantify ideas and theories about the brain as fact, or is everything destined to remain a theory? Is it true that only 10% of the brain is used, if so, what is the other 90% doing?
As we grow older we lose brain functionality, can we improve this by stimulation?
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February March April's guest speaker was Harry Kroto May's guest speaker was Alan Bassindale June's guest speaker was Neil Chalmers July's guest speaker was Jocelyn Bell Burnell August's guest speaker was Patrick Moore September's Guest Speaker was Susan Greenfield