Our first presentation will be given by Susan Greenfield. Baroness Susan Greenfield, was once both an undergraduate and a post-graduate at Oxford, and is now Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. As well as her life's work in neuroscience, and particularly in methods for preventing the brain-cell death that happens in diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's - work that has led to a university spin- out company specialising in novel approaches to neurodegeneration - Susan has an interest in the neural basis of consciousness. This is described in her books, which include'Journey to the Centres of the Mind: Toward a Science of Consciousness', and'Private Life of the Brain', and is what she will talk about on Monday 26th January.