Susan Greenfield to give public lecture at Cambridge

The distinguished neuroscientist, Baroness Susan Greenfield, will be giving a public lecture on how the study of the brain is changing our understanding of human nature itself at Cambridge University next week. The talk, entitled "Human Nature: A Neuroscientific Perspective" will take place at 4.30pm on Wednesday, April 21st, at the Michaelhouse Centre, Trinity Street, Cambridge and will be free and open to all. It will be the final event in "A World To Believe In", a successful programme of public debates, lectures and workshops which has been running since 2008 and looks at how faith can help us understand some of the most pressing challenges of our day. Baroness Greenfield has been Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology at the University of Oxford since 1996. Her research has focused on the study of neuronal mechanisms in the brain and the future prevention of the degenerative effects of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. She is also a well-known populariser of science and has written widely for a public audience. Her many books cover issues such as how we can understand consciousness from a scientific perspective, and the changes and threats posed to human nature by the present "age of technology".