Mirrors, Computers and Phantoms: Using Virtual Reality to Treat Phantom Limb Pain

Dr Steve Pettifer and Dr Craig Murray, School of Computer Science/School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester.

The talk will examine the complex phenomenon of phantom limb pain whereby people experience pain in a limb which has been amputated. Efforts to devise a therapeutic treatment using virtual reality will be discussed.

MANDEC Dental School, Higher Cambridge Street, Manchester

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Why Are Humans Evolutionarily Inevitable?

Professor Conway Morris, Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology in the Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge University

Re-run the tape of the evolution of life and it has been suggested that completely different life forms would emerge. This lecture will explore the evidence that on a suitable planet the evolution of life is full of inevitabilities such as eyes, brains, tools and even culture.

The presentation has been designed for 6th formers studying biology, but will be of more general interest.