Some people say, brains can't understand brains.

Turning brain drain into brain gain The case of Pakistan

The brains remain hardwired for music.

I do two things I design mobile computers and I study brains.

You can't imagine how much detail we know about brains.

And they said, oh no, you can't study theory about brains.

Issues relating to gender, information and communication technologies and brain drain will receive priority attention.

One side note on the collection of brains because of the way that we collect, and because we require consent, we actually have a lot more male brains than female brains.

And one might have the impression that we really knew a lot about brains.

Another one is sometimes people say, well, brains are so complex, it'll take another 50 years.

So what is the intuitive, but incorrect assumption, that's kept us from understanding brains?

And today's talk is about brains and, yay, somewhere I have a brain fan out there.

The crisis of the 1990s led to the drastic reduction of the state support for science and a brain drain migration from Russia.

And so I fell in love with this, and said look, we have all this knowledge about brains. How hard can it be?

And if we want to understand who we are and how we feel and perceive, we really understand what brains are.

There were 28,000 people who went to the neuroscience conference this year, and every one of them is doing research in brains.

Cetacean brains are among the largest of all animals, both in absolute mass and relative to body size.

Recent trends suggest that brain circulation is a more appropriate term to describe the exchange of skills in international trade in services.

The brain drain which results from the delayed return of a developing nation's foreign educated students has been at the centre of considerable debate.

Outsourcing to developing countries is also a viable solution for the creation of jobs without causing a brain drain.

It is hoped that the network will reverse the negative impact of brain drain by producing researchers who can tackle the development challenges of their countries.

Special measures have been adopted to prevent the brain drain , including favourable working conditions and facilities, as well as highly competitive salaries for university researchers.

And I said, no, you really ought to study brains. They said, oh, you know, you're wrong. And I said, no, you're wrong, and I didn't get in.

So I got in in the Ph.D. program in biophysics, and I was, all right, I'm studying brains now, and I said, well, I want to study theory.

We're also selecting for brains in which we can get the tissue, we can get consent to take the tissue within 24 hours of time of death.

John Gartner wrote this book called The Hypomanic Edge in which Christopher Columbus and Ted Turner and Steve Jobs and all these business minds have this edge to compete.

Especially when chimpanzees, and other animals with large brains, are studied in captivity, modern technology is helping us to search for the upper levels of cognition in some of these non human animals.

It was one of the best issues ever. And they talked about the neuron and development and disease and vision and all the things you might want to know about brains. It was really quite impressive.

The brain drain from developing countries that has resulted from the free movement of skilled labour while the movement of unskilled labour remains restricted has led to increased inequality between countries and regions.

And he wrote a story basically saying, well, this is all well and good, but you know what, we don't know diddley squat about brains and no one has a clue how these things work, so don't believe what anyone tells you.

So if I could inspire even a fraction of you in the audience today to share this pioneering diagnostic approach with even one parent whose child is suffering from a developmental disorder, then perhaps one more puzzle in one more brain will be solved.

So what happened was, when I was young and got out of engineering school at Cornell in '79, I decided I went to work for Intel and I was in the computer industry and three months into that, I fell in love with something else, and I said, I made the wrong career choice here, and I fell in love with brains.

What we find is that over these 40 odd years that I and others have been studying chimpanzees and the other great apes, and, as I say, other mammals with complex brains and social systems, we have found that after all, there isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom.