The Social Brain: Ralph Adolphs at TEDxCaltech

Ralph Adolphs obtained his Ph.D. at Caltech in 1993, subsequently conducted postdoctoral work with Antonio Damasio in lesion patients, and has been on the faculty at Caltech since 2004. Ralph's laboratory includes undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and staff that all work on elucidating the neural underpinnings of social behavior. The lab studies several clinical populations, including neurosurgical patients, individuals with rare brain lesions, and people with autism. Extensive use is also made of the adjacent Caltech Brain Imaging Center, which Ralph directs, and there are close collaborations with other laboratories at Caltech in both the divisions of biology and the humanities and social sciences.
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On January 18, 2013, Caltech hosted TEDxCaltech: The Brain, a forward-looking celebration of humankind's quest to understand the brain, by exploring the past, present and future of neuroscience. Visit TEDxCaltech.com for more details.

[@chrisedrev9519]

This guy is awesome, I'm reading his papers currently, that's how I came across this video. :)

[@rahulc9983]

social impact on individuals depends on the type of society also and there by the size of social brain

[@dannycrofts8138]

They say I have problems with social inference but you know when someone has a problem 😆👍🏽 Some people are good at disguising interpersonal interaction to achieve desire social goals x

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I believe the issue is much easier 2 explain.

[@sq42na]

This is certainly an interesting piece of information, however too superficial in my opinion - I would have liked to see more evidence on the differences between normal patients and those with a disorder. Then again, I probably shouldn't expect a 15-minute talk to go into great depths.

[@CitizenSlide]

“Social Perception - Social Inference - Social Behaviour” is far from representative of a complete framework, there’s also ‘Social Appetite’ and this has a huge impact on whether someone perceives, understands and then behaves as the wider population expects.
Also, let me stretch the analogy even further, someone with little or no social appetite could be harmed or traumatised by a society populated by neurotypes that believe the only thing limiting sociability is the capability and understanding needed to do it well.
And while a lack of sociability may correlate with social anxiety in some, there are plenty of people who just don’t find the company of other people nourishing and don’t need the validation and support of a social group to feel comfortable. The social world may be a distinctive feature of most humanity, but it’s also toxic to some of us.

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I don't have any friend
I must have no amigdala..

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New, but real where many are missing the rationality, a basic assumption