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IN THIS ISSUE
2 New INS President
3 Reviews
4 Member Publications
6 INS Working Groups
8 Meet a Member Patricia Smith Churchland
10 INS Annual Meeting Speakers and Readings
14 What are INS Members Doing?
15 Calendar
INTERNATIONAL NEUROETHICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 2013
2013 INS Annual Meeting November 7 & 8
Early Registration Discounts end on September 15 Don’t miss out!
See the schedule here. The speaker lineup is gathered from giants in the 9ield, including:
• Barbara Sahakian, University of Cambridge• John Pickard, University of Cambridge• Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford• Patricia Churchland, University of California-‐San Diego• Molly Crockett, University of Zurich• Jens Clausen, University of Tubingen• Lisa Claydon, Bristol Law School, University of the West England• Joe Fins, Weill Cornell Medical College• Niko Schiff, Weill Cornell Medical College• Holly Moore, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric
Institute• Mauricio Delgado, Rutgers University• Catherine Sebastian, Royal Holloway, University of London• J. David Jentsch, University of California – Los Angeles • Honorable Robert Trentacosta, Presiding Judge of San Diego Superior
Court
And don’t forget about the public program on “Neurogaming” at the Fleet Science Center on November 7. Seating will be extremely limited and an RSVP is required. https://neurogaming.eventbrite.com
More details about the speakers and panels may be found here as well as the suggested readings to prepare for the discussion.
There will be time to network with colleagues and we have a terri9ic reception and poster session planned. We look forward to seeing you in San Diego! v
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INTERNATIONAL NEUROETHICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 2012
President
Steve Hyman
President-Elect
Barbara Sahakian
Executive Committee
Turhan CanliMark FrankelHank GreelyJulian SavulescuPaul Root Wolpe
Governing Board
Verity BrownNita FarahanyJudy IllesHusseini ManjiHelen MaybergJorge MollJonathan MorenoEdward RoverStudent Representative Matt Baum
Executive Director
Karen [email protected]
Director of Communications
Alison W. Bennett abennett@ neuroethicssociety.org
Administrator
Terrell [email protected]
www.neuroethicssociety.org
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Barbara J. Sahakian Elected President of the International Neuroethics Society
The Governing Board of the International Neuroethics Society announce that Dr. Barbara Sahakian of Cambridge University will be the next President of the Society. She will take of9ice in February 2014 and will serve a two year term.
She follows Dr. Steven Hyman who was the founding President of the INS and has served since 2006.
Dr. Sahakian is Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at the Department of Psychiatry, and Medical Research Council / Wellcome Trust Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, and Honourary Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. After completing a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology at The University of Cambridge, she
studied for a Diploma in Clinical Psychology, became a Chartered Psychologist, and was a founding member of The International Neuroethics Society.
She has an international reputation in the 9ields of cognitive psychopharmacology, neuroethics, neuropsychology, neuropsychiatry and neuroimaging. She has been involved in neuroscience and mental health policy, including the Foresight Project on Mental Capital and Wellbeing, the Medical Research Council Strategic Review Report on Mental Health and the Grand Challenges in Global Mental Health.
Dr. Sahakian is co-‐inventor of the CANTAB computerized neuropsychological tests, which are in use world-‐wide. She is well known for her research work on cognition, depression, and cognitive enhancement, and other issues of importance to neuroethics. She has more than 300 publications in leading scienti9ic journals. Her current program of research, funded by the Wellcome Trust and Medical Research Council, investigates the neurochemical modulation of impulsive and compulsive behavior in neuropsychiatric disorders, such as unipolar and bipolar depression and attention de9icit hyperactivity disorder. She currently serves as president of the British Association for Psychopharmacology. Her latest book (2013), with Jamie Nicole LaBuzetta, is Bad Moves: How decision making goes wrong, and the ethics of smart drugs.
In late 2014, the INS Governing Board will select a President-‐Elect who will begin to serve in that role in February 2015, becoming President in February 2016. The Nominating Committee, which is selected in part by the membership and in part by the Governing Board, is charged with selecting the slate of nominees to be presented to the INS Governing Board. v
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Read a Good Book Lately?
INS members would like to hear about it. If you have enjoyed a book or 9ilm and would like to share with the membership, please send a brief review to [email protected]. We can use everything from scholarly works and documentaries to 9iction and they don't need to be long -‐-‐ a few paragraphs will do -‐-‐ and they don't need to be new -‐-‐ just relevant to the 9ield of neuroethics. Share your 9inds with colleagues.
Side EffectsA Film by Steven Soderbergh
By Anto Cartolovni
Anto Cartolovni is a PhD Fellow in Bioethics at the Institute of Bioethics-‐ School of Medicine and Surgery “St. Agostino Gemelli,” Catholic University of Sacred Heart-‐ Rome.
Side Effects is the newest thriller by Steven Soderbergh. This 9ilm is full of intriguing issues, including problematic issues concerning neurosciences. The director has tried to bring the audience closer to understanding troubles with psychopharmacological drugs. Some famous actors are in this 9ilm like Jude Law and Catherine Zeta-‐Jones. The 9ilm starts with a retrospective approach, a good strategy to draw audience’s attention. The main character is a young woman who “suffers from a depression”; and impulsively tries to commit suicide. She survives and meets a psychiatrist, who is also consulting for a drug company, participates in clinical trials, and who will accompany her through this disorder. He gives her a medicine named Ablixa that will enhance her abilities and help her to manage a “normal life.” After using this medication, strange side effects appear that she does not realize, like a re9lexive preparation of a meal while she sleeps. These side effects lead her, while unconscious, to stab with a knife her own husband. The consequences of this unconscious acts include potential
legal challenges, because in the case of an unconscious person his answerability is questionable. But the real action of the movie is more complicated and full of conspiracies and lies. Watching this 9ilm I was surprised how the central part of it evolved to a totally different end from the 9irst part. The 9ilm subliminally refers to problems like the cognitive enhancement and clinical trials of psychopharmacological drugs. Furthermore, in the scene with two psychiatrists when they discuss the side effects of psychopharmacological drugs, the actors dialogue is much easier for cardiologist to follow and predict consequences of a new drug, just taking a blood sample, than for a psychiatrist. Another scene presents a problem concerning the advertising of psychopharmacological drugs. At the end, the 9ilm questions the necessity of using an fMRI in the court process as a lie detector just to be sure that the accused tells a truth. I recommend sincerely this 9ilm to all fans of good thriller movies and especially to those interested in neuroethical problems of daily life.
TranceA Film by Danny Boyle
By Alison Bennett
Alison Bennett is the Director of Communication for INS.
Academy Award-‐Winning director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, 2008) has made an action-‐packed brain-‐twister starring James McAvoy (X-‐Men: First Class), Vincent Cassel, and Rosario Dawson. McAvoy plays Simon,
an employee of an art auction house who, after a blow to the head, forgets what he has done with a canvas he’s helped a gang of criminals steal. He gets hypnotized in order to remember where he has hidden the multimillion-‐dollar painting. Vincent Cassel plays Franck, the vulnerable, suave, yet ruthless mobster who will stop at nothing to get the painting. And Rosario Dawson plays Elizabeth, the unprincipled hypnotherapist Franck hires to unlock Simon’s unconscious as he descends into psychosis. The 9ilm is built on the mind’s ability to fool itself. However, the director plays fast and loose with reality. You’re never
Reviews by INS Members
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quite sure whether what you’re seeing is actually happening or merely the result of a character’s post-‐hypnotic suggestion. Who is the reliable narrator? Boyle is trying to unlock the secrets of hypnotism and the power of memory, but there are many con9licts of interest in Elizabeth’s behavior. It is never acceptable, if even possible, to use hypnosis to control someone for revenge. Despite its 4 star rating, other reviews called out the 9ilm’s chaotic storytelling, unbelievable characters, frenetic camera work and editing. It is unnecessarily violent, as it escalates toward a grisly climax. I wouldn’t call this great, but it was non-‐stop entertaining. Contains violence and torture, obscenity, sex and nudity. For more see the interview with the director at http://www.trancethemovie.com. v
INS Member Publications
Veljko Dubljevic, “Prohibition or Coffee Shops: Regulation of Amphetamine and Methylphenidate for Enhancement Use by Healthy Adults,” in the American Journal of Bioethics.
Owen D. Jones, Seven Ways Neuroscience Aids Law, in Neurosciences and the Human Person: New Perspectives on Human Activities (A. Battro, S. Dehaene & W. Singer, eds.) Scripta Varia 121, Ponti9ical Academy of Sciences, Vatican City (2013).
In a new paper in JAMA Psychiatry, a team led by Emory University neurologist Helen Mayberg, identi9ies a possible biomarker for predicting whether a depressed patient will respond better to an antidepressant or CBT.
Jane Campbell Moriarty (& Bruce Green), Rehabilitating Lawyers: Perceptions of Deviance and Its Cures in the Lawyer Reinstatement Process, 40 Fordham Urban Law Journal 139 (2012).
Nicholas S Fitz, Peter B Reiner. (2013). The challenge of crafting policy for do-‐it-‐yourself brain stimulation. Journal of Medical Ethics [Online First, 3 June 2013). doi:10.1136/medethics-‐2013-‐101458. (open access through JME_BMJ). Nature editorial,'Brain blast:'
Kent Kiehl et. al’s new paper, "The Impact of Neuroimages in the Sentencing Phase of Capital Trials" was recently posted to SSRN (and forthcoming in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies): [Michael J. Saks , Arizona State University (ASU) -‐ Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law; N. J. Schweitzer, Arizona State
University; Eyal Aharoni, University of California, Santa Barbara -‐ Department of PsychologySee more here.
Barbara Sahakian et al., “The size, burden and cost of disorders of the brain in the UK” Journal of Psychopharmacology, August 2013.
Barbara Sahakian, “Burden of brain disorders ignored by government,” in The Conversation, 15 August 2013.
Stay : Tips for enhancing your
professional presence online
A presence on the professional networking site LinkedIn is rapidly becoming essential for career advancement in an increasingly online world. With over 225 million users worldwide and a growth rate of approximately two new users per second [1], LinkedIn has established its role as the preeminent internet networking site for professionals. In fact, LinkedIn was reportedly the 23nd most visited website in the world in June of 2013 and online adults are more likely to use it than Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram or Pinterest [2]. In light of such impressive statistics, it is worth evaluating how to best make use of this tool.
1) Remember that LinkedIn is a tool and as such, requires you to use it. Join groups, participate in discussions, and reach out to professionals with similar interests. Having a pro9ile will only get you so far, you have to take the next step and be interactive.
2) Post a professional photo of yourself. Part of establishing an online presence is providing an image of yourself; people like to know with whom they are interacting. However, it’s important to remember that this is a professional site – a picture from last weekend’s party will certainly make a lasting impression, but it is probably not the impression that you would prefer!
3) Keep your proTile up-‐to-‐date. Your LinkedIn pro9ile is your online resume; it should be detailed, thorough, and well-‐organized. Remember to update your pro9ile as you gain new skills and experiences.
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4) Make your proTile public. There may be reasons to keep your LinkedIn pro9ile private or to restrict access to it, but for the most part, allowing more professionals access to your resume will only increase your chance of being noticed or contacted about an opportunity.
5) Include a headline. Your headline is a quick look into what you see as your strongest skillset. This may be your current position, but certainly does not have to be. Include a headline that will differentiate you from the crowd.
6) Write a summary statement that is thorough but concise. Your summary statement is your 9irst real opportunity to tell visitors to your pro9ile about your skills, professional interests, and work ethic. Emphasize your strengths but remember to have respect for your reader’s time; thorough but concise is the way to go.
7) Get recommendations. Take the time to ask your colleagues and associates to write recommendations for your LinkedIn pro9ile. These recommendations function as an initial reference letter and can distinguish your pro9ile from those with similar skill sets.
8) Join groups. This is especially important when job searching. Groups are a good way to watch trends in the 9ield, make connections, and 9ind out about new opportunities and jobs. Many groups also include a job-‐posting page, so you can 9ind out about opportunities before they make their way onto other career sites.
9) Participate in group discussions. Group discussions are an excellent way to interact with professionals in your 9ield and establish an online identity. Find out what issues and questions your colleagues are grappling with and engage with them on these issues. Discussions provide a quick insight into the pulse of a 9ield – take advantage of this and participate!
10)Reach out. LinkedIn is all about connections, so don’t be afraid to send someone a message. If someone’s pro9ile or skill set interests you, ask them about it! Be courteous, respectful, and professional in your message, but don’t hesitate to reach out and network.
Perhaps the most important point from the above list is that LinkedIn is primarily a tool. As increasing numbers of students and post-‐docs leave academia for alternate career paths, it becomes
necessary to consider and utilize new tools for professional advancement. LinkedIn groups can expose you to novel careers, job postings can alert you to speci9ic opportunities, and discussions allow you to establish an online reputation and interact with leaders in your 9ield, but these all 9irst require action on the part of the user. Don’t just have a LinkedIn pro9ile, have a LinkedIn presence.
L i ke many p ro f e s s i ona l g roups , t he International Neuroethics Society has a LinkedIn group page for the bene9it of its members. This page serves as a useful resource for connecting with professionals similarly interested in neuroethics, and especially for connecting with individuals in a diversity of 9ields within the overarching neuroethics umbrella (e.g. the INS group includes industry, law, research, and medical professionals). Additionally, this group has both a jobs and promotions page in order to keep members informed of new opportunities in neuroethics. Finally, the INS group page highly encourages discussions among its members on current issues in neuroethics, and discussion topics are frequently posted to the page. Actively engaging with the INS group page helps to keep members informed not only of career opportunities in neuroethics, but through the discussion feature, also helps them to remain cognizant of a variety of neuroethics questions. The INS group page is a place that strongly encourages member feedback and opinions; if you’re looking for a way to increase your LinkedIn presence, the INS group page is a perfect place to start!
[1] About LinkedIn: http://press.linkedin.com/about
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Attending a meeting?
We want to hear about it!
There are lots of meetings coming up this fall where neuroethics will be discussed -‐ check the calendar on the last page of this newsletter for some of them! Your fellow INS members will be interested in hearing about talks and presentations you’ve seen. So please write a short (100-‐200 word) report on the neuroethics scene at your favorite conferences and send it to us. We’ll publish it in the next newsletter under your byline. v
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Be a Part of the San Diego Experience!
During the 2013 International Neuroethics Society Annual Meeting, you can be a part of the action! Get involved with one of the INS Working Groups.
We will again organize the Working Group dinners after the reception on Thursday evening at a nearby restaurant. Each individual pays for his/her own dinner and this is a great way to meet colleagues interested in the same things you are. Contact Karen Graham by October 21 if you want to participate. A list of the groups is below.
Once you are involved, each Working Group has a listserv created to facilitate an easy chain of communication. The emails on each chain are only seen by your fellow group members and we encourage you to use it often.
To sign up for a Working Group, contact Karen Graham at [email protected].
Each of the Working Groups will be advised through the listserv about the time and location of these dinners so please sign up or let us know of your interest. Join us in San Diego.
Cognitive Enhancement Deep Brain Stimulation
Global Health and NeuroethicsNeuroscience and Free Will
Brain-‐Based Legal Implications, Neuroscience and National Security Alzheimer's Disease Biomarkers
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How to Update Your Profile Information on the Int’l Neuroethics Society Website
1. Login in using your username and password on www.neuroethicssociety.org. If you have forgotten, email Terrell Brotherton at [email protected]. Click on the MEMBERS tab on the horizontal toolbar.3. Select MY PROFILE.4. Your Name Page should appear; select EDIT.
PROFILE. Here you can update your photo, change your basic contact information, username, password, current institution, etc. You can mark items as private and even pay your dues.
4. Click the SAVE button.
That’s all there is to it. We are encouraging all members to check their proTiles and make sure that all the information is up to date.
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New INS Administrator:Terrell Brotherton
Terrell joined the International Neuroethics Society staff in August of 2013. Prior to this, Terrell completed her doctoral degree in Neuroscience at Emory University, focusing on protein misfolding in neurodegenerative diseases. She then conducted post-‐doctoral research at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she studied neuroimmunomodulation in the context of traumatic brain injury. Terrell completed an internship in the Scienti9ic Responsibility, Human Rights, and Law Program at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2013.
Terrell’s interests include scienti9ic communication and neuroscience related policy. As Administrator, she will act as Assistant Editor for the Newsletter and will run the INS website. In addition to this position at INS, she also works as a freelance medical and science writer.
So Long, Cat Ferguson
Cat joined INS in the fall of 2011 to attend the annual meeting in Washington, D.C., and began working for the Society in the spring of 2012. She graduated from Northeastern University with a degree in neuroscience this spring, and begins a program in science journalism at UC Santa Cruz in the fall. She currently works as a freelance science and technology writer.
Be an INS Ambassador -‐ Bring in 2 new members and extend your
membership for one year for free!
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Meet a MemberPatricia Smith Churchland
Patricia Smith Churchland is a Professor emerita of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, and an adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute. Dr. Churchland will be a speaker at the INS Annual Meeting in San Diego as part of the panel on “The Science and Ethics of Moral Enhancement.”
Her research focuses on the interface between neuroscience and philosophy – called neurophilosophy. She explores the impact of scienti9ic developments on our understanding of consciousness, the self, free will, and ethics. She is author of Neurophilosophy (MIT Press 1986), and Brain-‐Wise (2002, MIT Press). She is co-‐author with T. J. Sejnowski of TheComputational Brain (MIT 1992), co-‐author with Paul Churchland of On The Contrary (MIT 1998). Her newest book is Touching a Nerve (Norton, summer 2013). She has been president of the American Philosophical Association and the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. She won a MacArthur Prize in 1991 and the Rossi Prize for neuroscience in 2008. She was chair of the UCSD Philosophy Department from 2000-‐2007. She has done many presentations for television, including for Bill Moyers (1988), and most recently in the Charlie Rose and Eric Kandel series: The Brain. Where were you born and how old are you?
I was born in a small farming village in British Columbia, in 1943, the 9irst year the village had a hospital. So unlike my sister, who was born at home, I was born in a hospital, a matter that apparently caused lots of excitement in the neighborhood.Where were you educated, and what did you study?
I went to the local schools, which turned out to be terri9ic. At the end of the war, many English, Irish and Scots had few prospects in Britain, and so came to Canada to look for opportunities. In a small town, folks were not too fussy about whether a candidate had an education degree, especially since some candidates had, for example, a Ph.D. in physics or an M.A. in literature. Most kids were from farms, and consequently most had a lot of chores at home.
The upshot was that school was often a kind of relief from toil, thus giving us an eagerness to go to school and learn and escape the farm’s hard, and sometimes tedious, work. For my undergraduate degree, I went to the University of British Columbia, as I did not know
that there might be other options. There I discovered that there was such a thing as graduate school and research.
My 9irst love was chemistry, with law a close second. I was, however, discouraged from attempting either of these as a career since they were unsuitable for women and I would surely meet with disaster.
There were no women at all in the law school classes, and certainly none on the faculty. Actually the same dire prediction was made about philosophy (“women cannot do philosophy, I am sorry….”), but this time my brain became very stubborn and I went on in philosophy anyhow, despite predictions of abject failure made by one or two faculty.
For graduate school I 9irst went to Pittsburgh where I learned a lot. Then, for largely personal and not academic reasons, I went to Oxford, where the contrast between how science does things and how philosophy does things became very stark and, I am sorry to say, very embarrassing for philosophy. This experience really set me up for going back to science to understand the mind.
Talking about words is not enough to make progress on the nature of the mind. Hence at my 9irst job, on the side, as it were, I studied neuroscience at the medical school in Winnipeg. The Manitoba medical school was remarkably wonderful to me, and gave me every opportunity to learn about the brain. It changed my life.Where do you live now?
I am retired from University of California San Diego, and I live with Paul Churchland, my husband, in Solana Beach, near San Diego. I am still an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute, where I have always felt so much at home. I am part of Terry Sejnowski’s lab at the Salk, and love lab meeting, which, ironically, is sometimes more deeply philosophical than discussions in the Philosophy Department.
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What initially drew you to neuroethics, and when?
It was always obvious that anything as powerful as social and moral motivation had to be rooted in the evolution of the brain, as Darwin rightly saw but Dawkins did not. But the real question concerned the nature of the mechanisms and their origin. About twelve years ago I heard a talk at the Salk by Larry Young who explained that oxytocin was critical in the formation of long-‐term bonds in prairie voles. To me, this suggested a possible link between attachment and a neurobiological platform for moral values. I have been exploring that link ever since. (Hence Braintrust: What Neuroscience tells us about Morality; Princeton 2011)
In the meanwhile, neuroendocrinologists such as Sue Carter, Larry Young, Karen Bales and others have painstakingly uncovered some of the details of the story of the role of oxytocin and vasopressin in bonding. Of course especially in humans culture plays a huge role in shaping moral dispositions, because humans learn from social interactions how they are expected to behave. But the motivation to learn social practices is very powerful and is part of the caring and attachment business. We are social by nature. How did you get involved with the International Neuroethics Society?
Judy Illes organized the 9irst neuroethics meeting in San Francisco, and I gave a talk about self-‐control. Next, Mike Gazzaniga, who has been a catalyst for organizing a lot in neuroscience, put together a small meeting in Asilomar of people he thought might be interested in a neuroethics society, on grounds that the 9ield of social neuroscience was beginning to develop suf9iciently that an organization could be productive and useful. I thought Mike was probably right. What area of neuroethics interests you the most?
There are two big bugaboos that plague neuroethics. The 9irst relies on so-‐called two-‐systems ‘theory’ (yes, those are sneer quotes), a set of hunches that is vaguely conceptualized, inconsistent across researchers, largely unsupported by data, and is related to the brain only in the most tenuous way despite claims to the contrary. The second is the idea that in moral decision-‐making either one is a rule-‐follower or one is a utilitarian, (in the sense of maximizing human well-‐being). Here is yet another dichotomy helping itself to truthiness. Those who are pushing utilitarianism are strikingly innocent of the many well-‐known problems with the approach, though they do seem to appreciate the problems with hide-‐bound rule-‐following. Studying the mechanisms for moral values in the brain on the assumption people are – or should be -‐-‐ rule-‐followers or utilitarians strikes me as misdirected.
What projects are you currently involved in?
Moral development in children is an absolutely gripping topic, and there are some very insightful, thoughtful psychologists investigating the matter, such as Melanie Killen, Paul Bloom, Elizabeth Spelke, and Alison Gopnik. Where do you see the future of neuroethics heading in the next five years?
I am guessing that the nature of decision-‐making, and the role of both subcortical and cortical structures in acquiring skills in decision-‐making, will become increasingly understood, and will cause us to re9lect on the criminal law and on how best to help people with decision-‐making dysfunction.
I also expect the interface between the law on the one hand, and decision-‐neuroscience on the other, will become richer and more complicated. Pat little announcements such as, “free will is an illusion!” are unlikely to be productive, whereas close understanding of how decision-‐making and self-‐control can go off the rails, or stay on the rails, will be productive.What advice would you give to someone looking to break into the field of neuroethics?
Learn as much as you can about criminal law and about social neuroscience and decision neuroscience. Learn as much anthropology and history as you can, so as to free yourself from parochial certainties about what is morally right or wrong. Remember that being in the academy is no guarantee of having moral wisdom, and that ordinary people can be morally wise. v
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Speakers and Readings
For complete bios and more, click here.
Thursday, November 7, 5-‐ 7:45 p.m.Fleet Science Center
This event is open to the public.
Neurogaming -‐ What’s Neuroscience and Ethics Got to Do with it?
Steven E. Hyman, Moderator
C. Shawn Green Adam Gazzaley Jonathon Blow
Group Student Discount for the Annual Meeting
Students – sign up with friends and get a reduced fee. 3 or more students sign up together and registration is $75 each. Email Karen Graham for more details.
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Friday, November 8 8-‐ 7:30 p.m.
San Diego Marquis & Marina, San Diego Ballroom B Registration Required
The Science and Ethics of Moral Enhancement
Barbara Sahakian, Moderator
Suggested Readings for the panel "Science and Ethics of Moral Enhancement":
Serotonin selectively in9luences moral judgment and behavior through effects on harm aversionMoral behavior is not what it seems
Moral judgment is more than rational deliberation
Serotonin Modulates Striatal Responses to Fairness and Retaliation in Humans
Panelists:
Julian Savulescu Patricia Churchland Molly Crockett
States of Consciousness: Neuroethics in impairments of consciousness, brain-‐machine interfacing and end of life decisions?
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Jens Clausen, Moderator
Suggested Readings for the panel "States of Consciousness: Neuroethics in Impairments Of Consciousness,
Brain-‐Machine Interfacing And End Of Life Decisions?”:
Monti et al. NEJM 2010
Cruse et al. Lancet 2011Schiff et al. Nature 2007
Glannon, Bioethics 2008
Bendtsen, AJOB Neuroscience 2013
Panelists:
Lisa Claydon Joe Fins John Pickard Niko Schiff
Can Neuroscience Inform Us about Criminality & the Capacity for Rehabilitation?
Holly Moore, Moderator
Panelists and their Suggested Readings for the panel “Can Neuroscience Inform Us about Criminality & the
Capacity for Rehabilitation?”
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Mauricio R. Delgado “Social context and reward processing in the human brain”
Delgado, M.R. (2007) Reward-‐related responses in the human striatum. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1104: 70-‐88
Fareri, D.M., Niznikiewicz, M., Lee, V., Delgado, M.R. (2012). Social network modulation of
reward-‐related signals. Journal of Neuroscience. 32(26):9045-‐9052
J. David Jentsch “Voluntary inhibition of problematic behaviors: Origins and
inTluences”
Groman SM, Jentsch JD. Identifying the molecular basis of inhibitory control de9icits in
addictions: neuroimaging in non-‐human primates. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2013 Mar 22. pii:
S0959-‐4388(13)00068-‐8. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2013.03.001. Volkow ND, Baler RD. Neuroscience. To stop or not to stop? Science. 2012 Feb 3;335(6068):
546-‐8.
Solis M. Enhancing the Brain's Flexibility Could Unseat Addiction. Scienti9ic American Mind.
March 2013.
Catherine Sebastian “Neural Bases of Emotional Processing in Adolescence”
General reference on neuroscience and the law
The in9luence of neuroscience on adolescent culpability in law
Callous-‐unemotional (CU) traits in children
Neural responses to affective and cognitive theory of mind in children with conduct problems and varying levels of callous-‐unemotional traits.
Honorable Robert Trentacosta, Presiding Judge, San Diego Superior Court, Superior Court
of California, the third largest court in the United States.
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Hotels in San Diego
If you are attending the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) meeting, please register for hotel rooms through them. The Marriott Marquis and Marina is a SfN-‐designated hotel, and we understand that their rooms must be booked through the SfN.
If you are not attending the SfN meeting, other San Diego hotels may be available through a Google search or other travel web sites. For example, a Trip Advisor search on August 17 returned 25 options under “the best value” selection for the dates 11/7-‐11/9, but don’t wait. Your results may vary. Register for the INS meeting and make your plans as soon as possible. v
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Hank Greely blogged on the Supreme Court decision concerning DNA.
INS President Steve Hyman will lead the Society for Neuroscience.
Kent Kiehl was pro9iled by the New Yorker.
Debra Mathews explained the Supreme Court’s ruling on patenting (or not) DNA.
July 12, Helen S. Mayberg, gave a talk to the National Institute of Mental Health Alliance for Research Progress on ‘Predictive Medicine for Psychiatry: Optimizing Treatment for Depression Using Brain Imaging.” The Alliance is a group of advocates from national voluntary organizations representing individuals with mental illness, as well as their family members and all those concerned about them.
Aleksandra Mroczko-‐Wasowicz is hosting, in collaboration with Frontiers in Psychology (Specialty: Frontiers in Consciousness Research), a Research Topic titled "Perception-‐Cognition Interface & Cross-‐Modal Experiences: Insights into Uni9ied Consciousness." Submission information here.
Barbara Sahakian warned against 'smart drugs' in a talk about the brain and decision-‐making at the Hay Festival. Talk is online here.
Research in her new book, Bad Moves was the topic of an article in the Guardian.
“Decision Making & the Ethics of ‘Smart Drugs’" in the Global Herald
"No group of chronic diseases costs the world more than brain disorders," said Barbara Sahakian when discussing her new paper in the Journal of Psychopharmacology (see publications section). It was covered:
• In Reuters• In the Daily Mail, and here• In the Telegraph• In the Cambridge News • In the World Bulletin
“Pill popping not such a smart move for students -‐ Today’s undergraduates could be tomorrow’s addicted workers as the use of performance-‐enhancing 'smart drugs’ rises,” Sahakian was quoted in the Telegraph.
Her talk on ADHD was also covered by the British
Psychological Society.
As part of the Autumn Salon London series, over September, October and November Salon will be taking a lateral look at Sex, and Drugs and Rock and Roll. First up, will be 'Drugs' on the 4th September at Adam St Members' Club featuring Dr. Sahakian.
Julian Savulescu debated with Barbara Sahakian & others on Smart Drugs at the The Times Cheltenham Science Festival June 8.
Julian Savulescu debated John Harris on human enhancement and freedom.
INS member Paul Root Wolpe was featured in Big Think.
Judy Illes explores transparent reporting of research ethics.
Nita Farahany, Jim Giordano, and Judy Illes were quoted in Nature: Promoting the Visibility of Neuroethics.
Hank Greely was interviewed on KQED about bringing back extinct species.
Several INS members participated in the AAAS/ Potomac Institute Symposium, “Ethical Issues in Neuroscience”: Carol Erting, James Giordano, Alan Leshner, Jonathan Moreno, and Debra Mathews represented INS on the panel, “Promoting and Teaching Standards in Neuroethics.” Video now available. Read the Dana blogpost on the event here.
An innovative two-‐part television series, Brains on Trial with Alan Alda, will air Wednesday, September 11, 2013(Part I) and Wednesday, September 18, 2013 (Part II) on PBS (check local listings for local time). The program explores how advances in neuroscience may affect how criminal trials are conducted in the future.The series consulted a variety of leading neuroscientists, psychologists, and legal scholars including Gene Beresin, Joshua Buckholtz, BJ Casey, Jason Chein, Nita Farahany, Joanna Fowler, Jack Gallant, Michael Gazzaniga, Jay Giedd, Hank Greely, Joshua Greene, Patrick Haggard, Owen Jones, Marcel Just, Nancy Kanwisher, Kent Kiehl, Steven Laken, Bea Luna, René Marois, Stephen Morse, Elizabeth Phelps, Marcus Raichle, Robert Sapolsky, Rebecca Saxe, Walter Sinnott-‐Armstrong, Larry Steinberg, Nora Volkow, Anthony Wagner, and Thalia Wheatley.
Each issue, we publish short updates about what our members are engaged in. It might include talks, papers, classes, books, or anything else our diverse membership is up to. All members are free to submit information about themselves or others to [email protected]. Blurbs
should be 50 words or less, to be published on approval.
What Are INS Members Doing?
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Calendar
September 6, 2013 45th Meeting of the European Brain and Behavior Society, Munich, Germany.
For more information, click here.
September 9-‐10, 2013 The European Association for Neuroscience and Law Annual Meeting, Bonn, Germany.
To learn more about EANL, you can read their mission statement here.
September 11 & 18, 2013 Brains on Trial with Alan Alda (PBS) explores how neuroscience could change the law.
Watch the series trailer here.
September 24-‐27, 2013 Bernstein Conference, Tuebingen, Germany.
The Bernstein conference is a rapidly growing annual conference of the Bernstein Network for Computational Neuroscience and has attracted more than 550 participants in 2012. For the 9irst time, the Bernstein conference will feature a day of pre-‐conference workshops. The goal of the network is to foster collaborations between theorists and experimentalists in computational and systems neuroscience.
This year, the conference is hosted by the Bernstein Center Tuebingen (http://www.bccn-‐tuebingen.de/). Tuebingen itself is a beautiful medieval town and home to one of the oldest European universities. It boasts a rich cultural community and is situated close to the Black Forrest within 2 hours train ride or drive to France, Switzerland and Austria.
October 4, 2013 Neuroethics Down-‐Under, Queensland, Australia.
The Neuroethics Group at The University of Queensland is hosting a one day conference 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.
October 11, 2013 The Center for Cognition and Neuroethics 1st Annual Conference on: Reason, Reasons, and Reasoning, Flint, Michigan.
November 7, 2013 Neurogaming -‐ What's Neuroscience and Ethics Got to Do With It?, San Diego.
A public event at the International Neuroethics Society Annual Meeting.
November 27, 2013 Two Wellcome Lectures in Neuroethics for 2013, University of Oxford.
‘Brain mechanisms of voluntary action: the implications for responsibility’ by Professor Patrick Haggard, University College London and ‘The irresponsible self: Self bias changes the way we see the world’ by Professor Glyn Humphreys, Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University
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