Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy (b. 1973 in Oslo, Norway) is a PhD in cognitive neuroscience / neuroimaging, originally trained in clinical and theoretical neuropsychology. His current work is at the Copenhagen Business School and Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance in Copenhagen, Denmark. His work focuses on a range of different topics, including:
- neuroeconomics — preferences and decision making
- imaging genetics
- development and ageing
- consciousness
- modularity
- visual cognition
- evolution
The resulting interest in neuroethics stems from a speculation about the findings from these areas. Concerns about practical issues and especially ethical, folk-psychological and philosophical consequences of brain imaging have given rise to this interest. Together with Martin Skov he writes on a book (in Danish) on neuroethics.
TZR is also the managing editor of the Science & Consciousness Review, an online forum/journal reviewing the scientific study of the mind.
You can find out more about TZR on his homepage, on the CBS homepage and on the DRCMR homepage. You can also send him an email at thomasr AT drcmr DOT dk.
Great blog! Fascinating!
Thanks a lot!
-Thomas
A marvellous blog for cutting-edge brain science. You are contributing brilliantly to scientific public understanding. I learn a lot.
-Anibal Monasterio Astobiza-
I am trying to get in contact with someone that can give me an opinion of my blog entry:
Interesting!
Good work!
Thank you for your articles and presentations. You are an extremely gifted person and I am learning a great deal about your topics. As a Buddhist practitioner, I am intrigued by the potential of the practitioner to induce or diminish certain states of consciousness or states of being as part of our practice. However, I am curious as to the “what” or “whom” is doing the inducing or the pacifying.
Is one area of the directing the other part of the brain, and yet another part of the brain is affected by this process?
Peace, Ananda
Hi. I stumbled onto your blog via your “Fear and Pleasure in the Amygdala” post. That post seems relevant to an hypothesis of mine concerning personality and the brain. I’ve written up the hypothesis in the form of a short paper, and longer unfinished book. Here is a link to the paper, should you be interested: The Enneagram and Patterns of Asymmetric Dominance in Orbitofrontal Cortex and Amygdala
My facebook status today was:
“Vore handlinger er et produkt af vor hjerne, og alle forsøg på at undgå information om det biologiske aspekt er dømt til at kun fortælle noget af historien” quoting you that is:-)