Organizing the 2018 INS Annual Meeting
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We are pleased to announce the members of the Program Committee who will lead the effort to organize the 2018 INS Annual Meeting on November 1-2 in San Diego, CA.
Join us in thanking them for taking on this responsibility and volunteering their time to the Society. If you have any recommendations or ideas you would like them to consider as they form the program, please send an email to
administrator@neuroethicssociety.org.
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2018 Program Committee
CO-CHAIRS
- Steve Hyman, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research
- Ariel Cascio, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal
MEMBERS
- Nita Farahany, Duke Law School
- Tom Insel, Mindstrong Health
- Cynthia Kubu, Cleveland Clinic
- Hannah Maslen, University of Oxford
- Ilina Singh, University of Oxford
STAFF
- Karen Graham
- Robert Beets
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Do you have colleagues and students in your department who are members or who would like to join the INS? We offer discounts on
group memberships
available to INS members from the same department or institution: 10% for 5-9 members; 15% for 10-14 members; 20% for 15-19 members; and 25% for 20 or more members. Take advantage of what you could save you and your colleagues on membership dues.
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We have two great opportunities for students to become interns for the INS. One intern will assist February–December 2018 with the planning and execution of the annual meeting. The second internship will involve general administration, communication, and marketing activities for the Society beginning June 2018.
Please tell your students and colleagues.
Applications are due February 22.
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Ethics, Medicine, and Public Health,
the official journal of the International Academy of Medical Ethics and Public Health (IAMEPH), is creating a section titled 'Theory and Practice' that will explore current activities revealed through case law, legislative reforms, areas that have become of journalistic interest, controversies being expressed in your jurisdictions through discussion among public intellectuals, and scientific advancements—all of which pertain to the broad scope of bioethics. International and interdisciplinary groups are encouraged to
submit articles
for publication.
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Get Involved in Brain Awareness Week
– Brain Awareness Week is the global campaign to increase public awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research. Activities are limited only by the organizers’ imaginations and include open days at neuroscience labs; exhibitions about the brain; lectures on brain-related topics; social media campaigns; displays at libraries and community centers; classroom workshops; and more. Mark your calendars: this year's campaign will be observed March 12-18.
Start planning your activities and be sure to inform your neuroethics colleagues!
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Podcast Alert: Science and Future of Mental Health – Inscopix has recently released a podcast featuring INS board member and former director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Tom Insel. The podcast discusses our current understanding of mental health and how the revolution in artificial intelligence and
digital phenotyping through the use of our handheld smartphones will change what the future holds for diagnosis and treatment.
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Dark Future: Here’s When We’ll Have a Location-Tracking Implant from Black Mirror – INS member Syd Johnson was recently interviewed regarding the hit show Black Mirror.
The article discusses the future of neuroprosthetics and is part of a series examinations regarding this season's
Black Mirror episodes
considering the technology featured in each episode and evaluates how close we are to having it. – Kristin Houser (Futurism)
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Share your neuroethics news and research with INS members.
Submit online!
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JOBS / CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
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Epilepsy Program Director – The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), epilepsy research program, National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland is seeking candidates for an Epilepsy Program Director. Applications are due by February 7. For more information, please send an email to Vicky Whittemore at vicky.whittemore@nih.gov.
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Neuroethics Women to Watch – In this article, INS Past President
Judy Illes emphasizes that "one of [her] greatest joys has been to work with outstanding people in our field" and goes on to describe the extraordinary women in the field of neuroethics as having, "creativity, foresight, vigor, patience and resilience." – Judy Illes
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The International Roots of Future Neuroethics – INS member Dennis Larrivee d
iscusses the Ambassador Session at the
2017 INS Annual Meeting, which "juxtaposed the more mature organizational approaches of the American and European neuroethical programs against recent undertakings in Asia." – Dennis Larrivee
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Engineers design artificial synapse for 'brain-on-a-chip' hardware – The article summarizes the recent advancements by the team at MIT who have built, "
a small chip with artificial synapses, made from silicon germanium." The chip contains artificial synapses that, "can precisely control the strength of an electric current flowing across it, similar to the way ions flow between neurons." – MIT (ScienceDaily)
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Science has a gambling problem
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Researchers and government agencies pay too little attention to pathological gambling. This must change." - Editorial (Nature)
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Disabilities caused in babies by epilepsy drug a 'scandal' –
The author explores the distressing news that sodium valproate, also known as Epilim "carries a risk of causing physical abnormalities, autism, low IQ and learning disabilities if babies are exposed to the drug while in the womb." – Zack Adesina (BBC)
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Wilder Penfield redrew the map of the brain — by opening the heads of living patients – Wilder Penfield, a Canadian-American neurosurgeon, would have turned 127 this month. Penfield
"pioneered the technique of removing a portion of the skull while a patient was still awake." The Montreal Procedure was, "an odd thing to behold. Patients stay calm and awake while the surgeon literally electrocutes their brain" – Brian Resnick (Vox)
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Gray Matter, Red Tape: In Search of Serendipity
– "The lab’s ethicist, Tim Brown, a doctoral student of philosophy, says that some DBS patients suffer a sense of alienation and complain of feeling like a robot. To change that, the team at the University of Washington is using neuronal activity associated with intentional movements as a trigger for turning the device on." INS members Hannah Maslen and Thomas Cochrane were also interviewed for or quoted in this article. – Technology Quarterly
(The Economist)
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February 15-19; Austin, TX, USA
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February 21; New York City, NY, USA
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February 22; Boston, MA, USA
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March 1-4; Chicago, IL, USA
The conference welcomes persons from various disciplines and professions for discussion of common concerns in practical and professional ethics.
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March 12-13, 2018; Vancouver, BC, Canada
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March 23; Paris, France
The International Association for Responsible Research and Innovation in Genome Editing (ARRIGE) is organizing to promote a global governance of genome editing. To register and ask questions, contact the organizers by email at
arrige-event2018.CEI@inserm.fr.
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Defining Death: Organ transplantation and the 50-year legacy of the Harvard report on brain death
April 11-13; Boston, MA, USA
The conference will explore the legacy of the 1968 report from the Harvard Medical School committee that proposed the concept of “brain death” as a new criterion for determining human death, making possible the procurement of “living” organs from bodies deemed to be “dead.”
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April 13-14, 2018; Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
This conference is held in joint collaboration by the International Academy of Medical Ethics and Public Health (IAMEPH) and the Northern Plains Ethics Institute. Further details can be obtained at any time by telephone (+1 514-343-5938) or email (contact Jing Song at admin@ialmh.org).
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June 20-22; Paris, France
Seminar themes for 2018 include: Theory of Mind: Philosophical Considerations and Practical Implications, New Developments in Imaging along with Legal and Social Concerns, Deep Brain Stimulation and Recording, and Consciousness: Building Bridges. These sessions consist of round-tale discussions with leaders in science and ethics lending their multiple perspectives along with Open Forum group participation.
Participants are invited to submit abstracts for e-posters.
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June 27-29; Paris, France
The retreat is unique among bioethics meetings in that experts in medicine, philosophy, law, and health policy are invited from around the world to present their current research projects. Sessions are informal with audience discussion is an integral part of the presentations. Participants are invited to submit abstracts.
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July 4-6; Paris, France
What are we doing? What goals are we trying to achieve? Where is bioethics education taking place? How well are we doing? What’s next? Tackling those questions and finding practical answers continues to be the aim of our subsequent meetings. Participants are invited to submit abstracts.
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July 7-11; Berlin, Germany
The INS will be participating in the Federation of European Neurosciences Society (FENS) Forum of Neuroscience this year.
Travel grants of €750 are available to those who apply and register before February 13. Abstracts are also due by this deadline.
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International Neuroethics Society
an interdisciplinary group of scholars, scientists, clinicians, and other professionals who share an interest in the social, legal, ethical and policy implications of advances in neuroscience. Our mission is to encourage and inspire research and dialogue on the responsible use of advances in brain science.
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