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Science and Society

Recent lectures and articles of G.C.P. of public interest:

  1. PHYSIOLOGY OF SCIENCE AND SOCIETY (The Athens Review of books, July-August 2024)
  2. 'CONSCIOUSNESS AS A SCIENTIFIC CHALLENGE' (The Athens Review of vooks, February 2024)
  3. 'The brain as a product and tool of civilisation' (lecture in Benaki Museum, December 14, 2023)
  4. 'IN THE PARK WITH THE OTHERS / Biologies of the different' (The Athens Review of books, June 2023)
  5. 'THE ART OF THE BRAIN' (THESSALONIKEON POLIS, v. 83, 2023)
  6. 'THE EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN BRAIN: Biology and Civilisation' (lecture in webinar organized by the University of Crete, 27/3/2023)
  7. 'THINKING UNIVERSE AND COSMIC BRAINS' (The Athens Review of books, March 2023)
  8. 'THE BEST OF TIMES, THE WORST OF TIMES', (Τhe Athens Review of books, October 2022)
  9. 'www.central nervous system' (lecture  in PMS 'Acoology-Neurootology', Athens, September 30, 2022)
  10. 'The Universe of the Brain' (lecture in the Film Club of Thessaloniki, To Pikap, June 6, 2022)
  11. Discussion between GCP and endocrinologist Lina Paschou on ' sex differences on the brain ' (Thessaloniki, March 19, 2022)
  12. 'BIOPSYCHOLOGY OF THE WORKING WELL-BEING' (The Athens Review of books, February 2022)
  13. 'Brain: selfish mirror of the world' (lecture organized by FORTH's friends association, Heraklion, November 15, 2021)
  14. 'BRAINS, IDENTITIES AND IDEOLOGIES' (The Athens Review of books, May 2021, republished in Synapsis vol. 62, 2021)
  15. 'THE GROWING BRAIN: 2. Language and emotion' (The Athens Review of books, February 2021)
  16. 'THE GROWING BRAIN: 1. Early pedagogical dilemmas' (The Athens Review of books, January 2021)
  17. 'THE ESSENCE OF THE SELF in the old new world' (The Athens Review of books, June 2020)
  18. 'Happiness and Neuroscience: of mice and men' (lecture in Eginition Hospital, Athens, October 19, 2019)
  19. 'Origin and evolution of the modern mind' (The Athens Review of books, September 2019)
  20. 'Basic and advanced lessons of self-knowledge' (lectures in the Schoοl of Film, Aristotle University, May 11-12, 2019)
  21. 'Rowing in the archipelago Romain Gary' (The Athens Review of books, March 2019)
  22. 'Brain and Sex: mutual dependence' (lecture in the Telloglion Fine Arts Foundation, March 5, 2019)
  23. 'The long arm of the human mind' (The Athens Review of books, December 2018)
  24. ''mind sees and mind hears' but what exactly?' (lecture in the Department of Psychology of the University of Crete, Rethymnon, Nov. 28, 2018)
  25. Interview in the Greek radio station SKAI Crete (November 25, 2018)
  26. 'Brain Biography: 2. the years of certainty' (lecture in the postgraduate program 'Creative Writing', Univ. Westerm Macedonia, April 21, 2018)
  27. 'Brain Biography: 1. the years of  education' (lecture in the postgraduate program 'Creative Writing', Univ. Western Macedonia, April 20, 2018)
  28. 'Neurobiology of Perception: from reality to beliefs' (lecture in Centre of Civilization St. Niarchos, Athens, March 17, 2018)
  29. 'Socio-Biology of happiness: sailing with desire and pleasure' (plenary lecture in the meeting of the Greek network against addiction, Syros, October 18)
  30. 'Dreams: our most unknown own' (The Athens Review of Books, September 2017)
  31. 'Octaves of brain happiness' (lecture within the frame of 'Musical May', Concert Hall of Philarmonic Society, Patras May 2017)
  32. Discussion on neuroscience and poetry between E. Kouvelas, N. Katsidima-Lagiou and G.C.P. (bookstore Donti, Patras, May 2017)
  33. 'Propaganda by the deed' (The Athens Review of Books, April 2017)
  34. 'Euthanasia: From the side of heroes' (The Athens Review of Books, September 2016)
  35. 'Sex and Brain' (lecture invited by the 'Association of Child and Adolescent Care, cinema BAKOYRA, April 8, 2016)
  36. 'In his or  her mind. The difference as a cause or as a poison' (The Athens Review of Books, May 2016)
  37. 'OLIVER SAKS. An anthropologist in medicine' (The Athens Review of Books, October 2015)
  38. 'THE FACE. In brain and the society' ('synapsis' vol. 27, 2015)
  39. 'Empathy and language. Aspects of  socio-biological solidarity' (The Athens Review of Books, May 2015)
  40. 'We are... ici. Psychological drama in three acts' (The Athens Review of Books, January 2015, republished in 'synapsis, vol. 36, p. 20-23, 2015)
  41. 'Translating brain facts into the meaning of the world' (plenary lecture in Joint HSBLAS-ESLAV-ECLAM Meeting, Academy of Athens, 22 September 2014)
  42. 'Brain and time' (lecture in Eginition Hospital of Athens, April 5, 2014)
  43. 'Errors and rights. A harmless socio-biological comment' (The Athens Review of books, April 2014)
  44. 'The word of poetry' (The Athens Review of books, November 2013)
  45. 'Measuring happiness' (The Athens Review of books, February 2013)
  46. 'The biological relationship between the beliefs and the past' ( lecture in the meeting 'Science and Religion', ARB, July-August 2012)
  47. 'About certainties and other cognitive arbitrariness' (lecture in the School of Architecture of University of Thessaly, May 2012)
  48. 'The intellectual body' (The Athens Review of books, March 2012)
  49. 'Blindness' (The Athens Review of books, April 2011)
  50. 'The old woman who disappeared' (The Athens Review of books, January 2011)
  51. 'Who is governing this brain?' (BHMA Ideon, September 2010)
  52. 'Neuromyths: science in package of mass consumption' (The Athens Review of books, April 2010)
  53. 'Twelve little Indians' (BHMA Ideon, March 2010)
  54. Instincts and human brain (interview in newspaper 'Μακεδονία', Δεκέμβριος 2009)
  55. 'Free will: the sense of the driving force' (lecture in the 23rd National Congress of Greek Neurologists, Thessaloniki, May 2009)
  56. 'Images and certainties in the world of brains' (lecture in the School of Architecture of the University of Thessaly, Volos, April 2009)
  57. 'The brain of time. Anti-poetry of escaped meanings' (lecture in the clinic of psychiatry 'Spinari', Kozani, September 2008)
  58. 'The architecture of idols. The perception of the fragmented world' (lecture in the School of Architecture of the University of Thessaly, Volos, April 2008)
  59. 'The brain and the others. From Physics to Society' (lecture in the bookshop 'Mati', Katerini, February 2008)
  60. 'Taking brain pictures for the court' (Scientific American, Gr. ed., March 2008)
  61. 'Neuroscience and religion' (Scientific American, Gr. ed., January 2008)
  62. 'The pain of one and the other' Qualities of common experiences (Scientific American, Gr. ed., December 2007)
  63. "I feel you...". Society as a need of the brain (BHMA Ideon, November 2007)
  64. 'Numbers for the brain. Not for the dreams' (Scientific American, Gr. ed., August 2007)
  65. 'Neurobiological Research. About method' (Scientific American, Gr. ed., July 2007)
  66. 'The substance of the giants' (Scientific American, Gr. ed., June 2007)
  67. 'I am an image of yours....and we look alike' (Scientific American, Gr. ed., May 2007)
  68. 'Cosmos as a matter of (a)symmetry' (Scientific American, Gr. ed., April 2007)
  69. 'Brain and World: mutual dependence' (lecture in the French Institute, Thessaloniki, January 15, 2007)
  70. 'Nature vs nurture revisited' (lecture in the Eugenides Foundation, Athens, March 9, 2006)
  71. 'About free will' (lecture in Delphi Society, Popular Science, July and August 2006)
  72. Dialogue between neuroscientists and the public (lecture in the Eugenides Foundation, Athens, October 25, 2006)
  73. 'Which brain?' (Erasmus lecture, newspaper Eleftherotypia, March 3, 1999)