I have a new post up at the Dana Foundation blog, “Are we overeager to surgically stimulate the mind?” Here’s the top: When is a new brain treatment ready for the real world? After many trials and much research, the therapy known as deep brain stimulation (DBS) was approved by the FDA to treat Parkinson’s [...]
Last week, as part of Brain Awareness Week, I sat in on a conference in New York called “Law & the Brain: How Recent Advances in Neuroscience Impact the Law.” My story is up on the Dana Foundation site, along with a lot of links to other resources in that vein. The story has a [...]
Along with some 30,000 brain scientists, I’m heading to San Diego at the end of this week for the Society for Neuroscience’s annual meeting (SfN); five days of posters, presentations, and conversation about cutting-edge science. But first, on Friday, I’m going to hear what our progress in science might mean morally at the one-day annual [...]
Some advances in neuroscience, especially those related to neurotechnologies, offer big business opportunities, panelists said during the second day of the Neuroethics Society’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. “Neurotechnology addresses one of the largest untapped markets,” said Zach Lynch of NeuroInsights and the Neurotech Industry Organization, which in May led the effort to introduce the [...]
How should we take companies’ claims that their functional magnetic resonance imagers (fMRI) can tell if we are telling lies? With a mighty grain of salt, said panelists during the second day of the Neuroethics Society’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The idea of using fMRIs as a lie detector already has permeated society, said [...]
The first discussion at the inaugural annual meeting of the Neuroethics Society today, on the neuroethics of pediatric bipolar disorder, felt a little like déjà vu to me. Fifteen to 20 years ago, nearly no child was labeled bipolar, said panelist Benedetto Vitiello of the National Institute of Mental Health; since then the number of [...]
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