Dr Derek Tracy is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, London. His managerial work includes implementing a novel integrated service that has joined physical and mental health with social care into a single organisation covering a London Borough – ‘Bexleycare’.
Lecture synopsis
Dr Tracy’s talk will track 1,000 million years of the evolution of nervous systems in a single hour, taking an idiosyncratic approach to how our brains developed, what made us human, and how that links in with psychopathology. We will leap from basic multicellular organisms with primitive sensory responses, through primal drivers of appetite and sex, to look at the emergence of emotion and memory in the brain. The talk will consider how humans differed from other hominids, especially Neanderthal, and what that tells us about who we are today, and our unique abilities, particularly at mentalisation.
The talk will ask what other forms of consciousness might exist, and whether we could even recognise them if they do. The aim is to take a fun approach to what can be a complex area, and it will be light-hearted rather than detailed.
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