This course will survey emerging ethical questions raised by recent neuroscientific discoveries on genetic and environmental factors that influence human behavior, decision-making, personality traits, and mental states.
Instructor: Dr. Nadine Kabbani
For information about Spring 2017 course, contact nkabbani@gmu.edu.
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Neuroethics is a burgeoning field that explores the implications of new developments in basic and clinical neuroscience on social and ethical issues. In particular, advances in functional neuroimaging, psychopharmacology, brain implants and brain-machine interfaces raise important social, legal, ethical and policy questions.
The program explores emerging ethical questions raised by recent neuroscientific discoveries on genetic and environmental factors that influence human behavior, decision-making, personality traits, and mental states.
Website: http://neuroethics.gmu.edu/programs/la-mais-isin-neth/
Email: Lisa Struckmeyer mais@gmu.edu
Phone: 703-993-8762
Address: 324 Enterprise Hall, MS 5G3 4400 University Drive, 2A1 Fairfax, VA 22030
Philosophy, Politics, Economics
Bioethics, health care ethics, public health ethics, feminist ethical and political theory
Proteomic organization, evolution of signaling networks in neurons
Kant, Hume, modern philosophy.
Molecular Neuroscience Department: Social Cognitive Neuroscience
Molecular Neurogenetics
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The Emory University’s Neuroethics Program is an interdisciplinary, inter-departmental group of scholars interested in the intersection of neuroscience, ethics, and society.
The Program aims to become a center of excellence that informs responsible applications of neuroscience in research, the clinic, and society as well as engages and activates our community in neuroethics discourse.
Neuroethics Program webpage: http://www.ethics.emory.edu/pillars/health_sciences/neuroethics.html
The Neuroethics Blog: http://www.theneuroethicsblog.com/
Twitter: @EmoryNeuroethic
Facebook page: facebook.com/The-Neuroethics-Program-at-Emory-University
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/EmoryNeuroethics/videos
Email: neuroethics@emory.edu
Phone number: 404.712.8307
Address: 1531 Dickey Drive Atlanta, Georgia 30322
Program Director: Karen Rommelfanger (BRAIN 2015 profile)
The Neuroethics Program aspires to create and support a community of scholars to collaboratively explore the ethical and social implications of neuroscience and emerging neurotechnologies.
The Neuroethics Program has 3 primary initiatives:
Education and Outreach – Create innovative educational resources in neuroethics. – Disseminate neuroethics curricula and instructional materials to students, staff, and faculty at Emory and at other universities. – Provide fellowships and other opportunities for training and education in neuroethics. – Create public programs to educate the community about neuroethical issues.
Research and Scholarship – Promote innovative research at the intersection of neuroscience and ethics, and generate and disseminate scholarly interdisciplinary work. – Provide fellowships for doctoral research, and host conferences and workshops facilitating neuroethics discourse and scholarship.
Advising and Consulting – Provide neuroethics consultations for policy ...
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The Stanford Program in Neuroscience and Society (SPINS) is a new multidisciplinary initiative based in the Stanford Law School that seeks to study how neuroscience affects society. SPINS was created with support from the Stanford Neuroscience Institute, directed by Professor Bill Newsome.
The program is part of the Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology. The program is directed by law professor Hank Greely, with Anthony Wagner, professor of psychology and neuroscience, serving as deputy director.
SPINS website: https://law.stanford.edu/stanford-program-neuroscience-society/
Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences (CLB) website: https://law.stanford.edu/center-for-law-and-the-biosciences/
CLB/SPINS blog: http://blogs.law.stanford.edu/lawandbiosciences/
Podcast: https://talks.stanford.edu/law-school/clb-podcast-series/
Twitter: @StanfordCLB
Email: neuroscience@stanford.edu
Phone: 650-497-8019
Address: James H. Clark Center 318 Campus Drive, Suite S170 Stanford, CA 94305-5443
Directors: Hank Greely (BRAIN 2015 profile) and Anthony Wagner
The Stanford Neurosciences Institute is creating the Stanford Program in Neuroscience and Society (SPINS), a multidisciplinary initiative to study how neuroscience affects society, and to bring neuroscientists knowledge of human behavior and cognition from scholars in law, education and business. Through SPINS, SNI will create cooperative dialogue and partnership between these disciplines. After all, our nervous systems evolved to produce behavior, which neuroscience seeks to explain. SPINS will be based in the Stanford Law School and directed by law professor Hank ...
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The National Core for Neuroethics is an interdisciplinary research group dedicated to tackling the ethical, legal, policy and social implications of frontier technological developments in the neurosciences. Our objective is to align innovations in the brain sciences with societal, cultural and individual human values through high impact research, education and outreach.
The Core’s major research projects are focused on high impact, high visibility areas including cognitive enhancement, ethics in neurodegeneration and regenerative medicine, international and cross-cultural challenges in brain research, neuroimaging in the private sector, and the ethics of personalized medicine.
National Core for Neuroethics at UBC website: http://neuroethics.med.ubc.ca/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/NeuroethicsUBC BRAIN 2015 post
Twitter: @NeuroethicsUBC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/neuroethicsubc
Email: info.neuroethics@ubc.ca
Phone: 604 822 7920
Address: 2211 Wesbrook Mall Koerner Pavilion, Room S124 Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 2B5
The National Core for Neuroethics is an interdisciplinary research group dedicated to tackling the ethical, legal, policy and social implications of frontier technological developments in the neurosciences. Our objective is to align innovations in the brain sciences with societal, cultural and individual human values through high impact research, education and outreach.
The Core’s major research projects are focused on high impact, high visibility areas including cognitive enhancement, ethics in neurodegeneration and regenerative medicine, international and cross-cultural challenges in brain research, neuroimaging in ...
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The Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, led by experts from ethics, philosophy of mind, neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry and legal theory, will be the first international centre in the UK dedicated to neuroethical research.
The Oxford Centre for Neuroethics is part of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, part of the Faculty of Philosophy.
Oxford Centre for Neuroethics website: http://www.neuroethics.ox.ac.uk/home
Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics website: http://www.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/
Email: miriam.wood@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1865 (2)86888
Address: The Oxford Centre for Neuroethics Suite 8, Littlegate House 16/17 St Ebbe’s Street Oxford
Neuroscience studies the brain and mind, and thereby some of the most profound aspects of human existence. In the last decade, advances in imaging and manipulating the brain have raised ethical challenges, particularly about the moral limits of the use of such technology, leading to the new discipline of neuroethics. The Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, led by experts from ethics, philosophy of mind, neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry and legal theory, will be the first international centre in the UK dedicated to neuroethical research. The Oxford Centre for Neuroethics is funded through the Wellcome Trust’s Biomedical Ethics Strategic Awards programme. This five-year funding stream enables added value to research by encouraging the development of new methodologies, interdisciplinary work, and the training of students and fellows. The award will ...
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The Center for Neuroscience & Society is a highly collaborative group of faculty and students from departments spanning the Schools of Arts and Sciences, Medicine, Law, and Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania, whose work addresses the ethical, legal and social implications of neuroscience.
The mission of the Center for Neuroscience & Society is to increase understanding of the impact of neuroscience on society through research and teaching, and to encourage the responsible use of neuroscience for the benefit of humanity.
Center website: http://neuroethics.upenn.edu/
Preceptorials website: http://www.preceptorials.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/penncns
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/neuroscienceandsociety
YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCmqvVpEfUEW2qarZk0m559g/videos
Email: elerner@upenn.edu
Phone: 215. 573.7004
Address: Goddard Building, 3rd Floor 3710 Hamilton Walk Philadelphia, PA 19104-6241
The Center for Neuroscience & Society: We are a group of faculty and students from departments spanning the Schools of Arts and Sciences, Medicine, Law, and Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania, whose work addresses the ethical, legal and social implications of neuroscience.
To learn more about our research and writing, please see our faculty profiles and our open access repository, where most of our published papers are available for download. To watch some of our faculty speak about neuroscience and society, stream the short lecture videos available under the Resources tab. Our talk ...
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Neuroethics Studies Program of the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University serves as a resource and nexus for addressing the issues, questions, problems and resolutions fostered by applications of neuroscience in medicine, and public life and health upon the global stage.
The Neuroethics Studies Program cooperates with the Human Science Center of the Ludwig-Maximilians University; Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts; and Kumamoto University, Japan. This establishes the Neuroethics Studies Program as part of a larger network of scholarship, and provides opportunities to engage specific programs with cohort institutions.
Webpage: https://clinicalbioethics.georgetown.edu/neuroethicsprogram
Blog: https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/pccb/author/sw462/
Brochure: https://georgetown.app.box.com/s/iyfdx2xh50p835964yiq
Neurobioethics.org site: http://www.neurobioethics.org/
Email: james.giordano@georgetown.edu
Phone: (202) 687.1160
Address: Bldg. D, Rm 238 4000 Reservoir Road, N.W., Washington D.C. 20007-2197
“The study of the causes of things must be preceded by the study of things caused” Hughlings Jackson, 1875
The past 10 years have borne witness to an accelerated pace of neuroscientific advancement, due in part to both 1) expansion within its constituent disciplines, and 2) the conjoinment of new disciplines, within both the sciences and humanities. At present, neuroscience is being increasingly employed to explore the basis of consciousness, cognition, emotion and behavior, and its techniques, technologies and knowledge are rapidly being ...
The Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics Neuroethics Program, the Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS), represents the first formal collaboration between the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Johns Hopkins Brain Sciences Institute.
The goal of PEBS is to ensure that research in brain science proceeds with an informed and sophisticated understanding of attendant ethical and social issues, and that philosophical and empirical analysis of the advances in brain research proceeds with an informed and sophisticated understanding of the science.
PEBS web page: http://www.bioethicsinstitute.org/research/science-ethics/program-in-ethics-and-brain-sciences
Berman Institute of Bioethics: bhttp://www.bioethicsinstitute.org/
Brain Sciences Institute: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/brainscience/
Email: alanr@jhu.edu Alan Regenberg
Address: 1809 Ashland Ave. Baltimore, MD 21205
The Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics Neuroethics Program, the Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS), represents the first formal collaboration between the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Johns Hopkins Brain Sciences Institute. The goal of PEBS is to ensure that research in brain science proceeds with an informed and sophisticated understanding of attendant ethical and social issues, and that philosophical and empirical analysis of the advances in brain research proceeds with an informed and sophisticated understanding of the science.
Founded in 2003, PEBS is currently focusing on concepts that are ...
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