What's New?

The Wellcome Trust's free 'Big Picture Debates the Brain' app is now available from the iTunes store and as a web app. The free, interactive app is a resource for post-16 students and their teachers, and encourages learners to debate social and ethical questions about the human brain, such as 'Is being in love just a chemical reaction?', 'Are humans superior to other animals?' and 'Is technology harming our brains?' The app can be found here, and the online version can be found here.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies are pleased to announce a full-day symposium on Neuroethics on July 23rd. Several INS members will be speaking, including Debra Mathews, who will be there representing the INS. This event will be held at AAAS (1200 New York Avenue, NW). Registration is free for all participants. All who are interested in neuroscience and its intersection with policy, ethics, and society are welcome. Because of generous co-sponsorship by the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, presentations will be webcasted. RSVP here.

Barbara Sahakian, INS Board member, has a new book coming out in May. Bad Moves: How decision making goes wrong, and the ethics of smart drugs is available for pre-order here.

INS and the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics are proud to present two Wellcome Trust Lectures in Neuroethics, postponed until November 27th, 2013. Join professors Patrick Haggard and Glyn Humphreys from 5 to 7 PM to hear about the biology of decision making and how bias affects the way we view the world. For more information click here. 

Call for Papers: Neuroethics is seeking submissions for a special issue called "Concussion and mTBI: Ethical Issues. The full CFP can be read here. 

The Neuroethics Group at The University of Queensland is hosting a one day conference - Neuroethics Down-Under - this year on Friday, October 4, 2013 at the UQ Centre for Clinical Research in Brisbane. This one-day event will explore the ethical, social, legal, and policy implications of neurobiological research on mental illness and addiction and showcase recent contributions to these debates by members of the Neuroethics Group at UQCCR and other Australian researchers. Details of the conference are available here.

Register now for the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness 17th Annual Meeting July 12-15 in San Diego! Featuring several sessions of relevance to neuroethics, including:  ethical implications of detecting covert awareness in disorders of consciousness, investigating animal pain and consciousness, and deciphering the information contained in patterns of human brain activity. For more information, click here.

INS has a new poster! Click here to see it and download.