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SUMMARY:Visions - Professor Paul Fletcher\, Cambridge Neuroscience
DTSTART:20190118T173000Z
DTEND:20190118T183000Z
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:The brain strives to become a model of the world in which it m
 ust survive. It is often more important for it to be functional and effici
 ent than it is to be factually correct. Indeed\, there are numerous instan
 ces in which it seems to favour usefulness over accuracy\, expectation ove
 r actuality. This has led many to conclude that even normal perception has
  a constructive or hallucinatory quality. In extremis\, under the influenc
 e of fatigue\, fear\, illness or drugs\, an entire reality may be created\
 , one that seems to conflict with the reality accepted by those around us.
  This condition\, known as psychosis\, offers us important glimpses into t
 he mechanisms of the mind and the many ways in which they may be altered.\
 n\nPaul Fletcher is Bernard Wolfe Professor of Health Neuroscience at the 
 University of Cambridge\, Director of Studies for Preclinical Medicine at 
 Clare College and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist with the Cambridgeshire
  and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. He studied Medicine\, before carry
 ing out his specialist training in Psychiatry and taking a PhD in cognitiv
 e neuroscience. He researches human perception\, learning and decision-mak
 ing and is especially interested in hallucinations – perception in the a
 bsence of a stimulus – feeling that the existence of such phenomena offe
 rs us important insights in to how our brains construct our experience of 
 the world.\n
LOCATION:LMH\, Lady Mitchell Hall
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