On November 24, 2016 the Science & Innovations journal with the support of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and the Belarusian Republican Gerontological Public Association organized a public lecture titled “Stories about the brain” by a well-known Russian physiologist, Director of the Institute of Human Brain of the RAS, Academician Svyatoslav V. Medvedev. The lecturer spoke on the ways the brain manages the human psyche, about possible impacts on our minds and ways of manipulating them, as well as about many other mysteries related to mental activity of people.