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Leaping from bench to business

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 National [...]

Posted 16 November 2008 † nickyp § Brain science ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Truth telling on lie detection

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 Daniel [...]

Posted 15 November 2008 † nickyp § Brain science § Marketing ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Illness as social change

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 diagnoses [...]

Posted 13 November 2008 † nickyp § Brain science ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,