Neuroethics Sessions
12-15 April, Edinburgh UK
The symposium "Drugs, Addiction and Freewill: Do Addicted Individuals Have Free Will?" will examine the alteration of neural processes by dopamine and changes by habit formation and compulsivity of neural circuitry. We will also consider how drugs of abuse can lead to compulsive drug taking and addiction, with loss of volition. Finally, we will consider the neuroethics of addiction and to what extent drug addicts have free will. Sponsored by the European Dana Alliance and the International Neuroethics Society.
SPEAKERS:
Barbara Sahakian (Chair), University of Cambridge
Trevor Robbins, University of Cambridge
Gunter Schumann, King's College
David Nutt, Imperial College
Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford
Does Brain-Based Lie Detection Belong in American Courtrooms?
14 April 2015, Webinar, Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School
The seminar "Does Brain-Based Lie Detection Belong in American Courtrooms?" will be webcast live April 14 from 4:30 - 6:00 p.m. EST, and will address the following questions: As neuroimaging and other technologies advance, will traditionally-excluded tests of veracity (or lack thereof) find a place in American Courtrooms? What is the state of our neuroscience and understanding of brain-based lie detection techniques? Are these advances ready for 'prime time', or should we proceed with caution? What are the implications of existing research for the legal system and our moral assumptions about lying? Additionally, you can tweet your questions for the panelists to @HMSBioethics before and during the seminar to have them asked live by INS Student Representative Matthew Baum.
PANELISTS:
James Giordano
Ekaterina (Kate) Pivovarova
Francis X. Shen
Hacking the Brain: Neuroenhancement with Noninvasive Brain Stimulation
11 May 2015, Webinar, Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School
The seminar "Hacking the Brain: Neuroenhancement with Noninvasive Brain Stimulation" will be webcast live May 11. Noninvasive brain stimulation technologies have exploded in popularity over recent years. Technologies such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) have been shown to effectively improve numerous neurological functions, including cognitive skills, motor ability, and mood.
PANELISTS:
Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Hank Greely
Jamie Tyler
Past Sessions
Does Brain Differences Affect Legal and Moral Responsibility?
30 March 2015, Webinar, Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School
Recorded and distributed as a webinar, this conversation among a neuroscientist who studies moral judgement, a forensic psychiatrist, and a law professor, explored three cases that highlight the relationship between brain disorder, law-breaking, and norms relating to responsibility.
PANELISTS:
Fiery Cushman
Judith Edersheim
Amanda Pustilnik
13 Feb, 8:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Room LL20A, San Jose Convention Center, San Jose CA
The 'Memories Imaged and Imagined: How the Science of Memory Will Challenge the Law' symposium will set out some of our new knowledge of memory -- how it can be formed, stored, detected, modified, and even falsified. Neuroscientists will describe some of these new discoveries and legal scholars will point out the possible consequences for the legal system. The symposium will feature an extended period for discussion. The goal is not to provide all the answers but to help start the interdisciplinary conversations societies will need to make good use, and avoid misuse, of the new science of memory.
SPEAKERS:
Henry Greely (Organizer, Moderator), Stanford University Law School
Elizabeth Loftus, University of California
Jack Gallant, University of California
Marcia K. Johnson, Yale University
Nita Farahany (Co-Organizer), Duke University
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