Judy Illes has a dilemma. What happens when someone who has agreed to participate in a medical study undergoes a brain scan during which the researcher happens to discover an anomaly, a potential health risk? It’s a hypothetical quandary, but an example of the type of question Illes grapples with every day as the head of the National Core for Neuroethics at UBC. (Straight.com)

... Foundation Blog: Financial wisdom as we age Brain Science Creates a Need for Neuroethics by Gail Johnson Straight.com | November 19, 2009 Advances in neuroscience make the field of neuroethics increasingly complex and important, says Judy Illes, head of the National Core for Neuroethics at the University of British Columbia. The Man Who'd Map Consciousness by Nilanjana S. ...

Andrew Fenton is a part of the Novel Tech Ethics Group at Dalhousie University and the author of <a href=" title=""Buddhism and Neuroethics: The Ethics of Pharmaceutical Cognitive Enhancement."">“Buddhism and Neuroethics: The Ethics of Pharmaceutical Cognitive Enhancement.” Part 1 of 2.

... weekly studies. The Frontal Cortex. Popular science writer Jonah Lehrer, author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist and How We Decide, discusses insights and the latest research from the field of neuroscience. Neuroethics and Law Blog. This scholarly blog serves as an interdisciplinary forum for discussion of legal and ethical issues involving the mind and brain. I look forward to its weekly ethics ...

... ;myself. No, I don’t think I need to elaborate. Behaviorally speaking, heroes and serial do-gooders have a lot in common with sociopaths, according to this paper on psychology and neuroethics: “their personality traits are very similar, with only a few features to distinguish them.” We look at heroes and do-gooders as a special sort of breed: people who possess extraordinary ...

... at the big themes in this year's conference, including optogenetics - the use of light stimulation to alter gene expression neuron activity with millisecond precision, society and neuroethics, and the use of techniques from stage magic to explore attention and consciousness. A fascinating summary that clearly only scratches the surface of the biggest brain meeting on the planet but it still ...

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The Quest Team The Neuroethics & Law Blog posts on a recently published article by Guglielmo Tamburrini titled “Brain to Computer Communication: Ethical Perspectives on Interaction Models”. The abstract is pasted below the fold, but it brings to mind and interesting question – at least to me – in criminal law. Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs) allow one to control ...

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... discovered a genetic variation that may contribute to how empathetic a human is, and how that person reacts to stress. In the first study of its kind, a variation in the hormone/neurotransmitter oxytocin's receptor was linked to a person's ability to infer the mental state of others. tags: oxytocin, empathy, cogsci, neuroethics Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.