INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER MARCH 2014

International Neuroethics Society Announces the !IN THIS ISSUE 2 WEF, Davos 2014: The 2014 Annual Meeting Impact of Neuroscience on Global Wellbeing, !Brain Health and Wealth 4 Nominating Committee Election

5 News and !Announcements 6 Meet a Member ! Steve Hyman 9 What are INS Members Doing? ! The 2014 INS Annual Meeting will be held on November 13 and 14 in 10 Calendar Washington, D.C. at the American Association for the Advancement of Science ! !(AAAS) building, 1200 New York Avenue, N.W. !11 Social Media !The INS Program Committee consists of: Barbara Sahakian, and Mark Frankel, AAAS as co- ! chairs; Jens Clausen, University of Tubingen; Lisa Claydon, University of the ! West of England; Molly Crockett, University of Zurich; Helen Mayberg, Emory University; Holly Moore, Columbia University; John Pickard, University of !Cambridge. The Program Committee has begun planning and requests suggestions for panel topics to be sent to Karen Graham by March 19th.

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World Economic Forum, Davos 2014: The impact of President neuroscience on global wellbeing, brain health and wealth !Barbara Sahakian by Barbara J Sahakian Executive Committee

Following her recent attendance at the in Turhan Canli Davos, Barbara J. Sahakian shares her experience here. Barbara is the Mark Frankel current President of the International Neuroethics Society and Hank Greely Professor of Clinical at the Department of Psychiatry, Steve Hyman University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, and Honourary Julian Savulescu Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Paul Root Wolpe Foundation Trust. ! Governing Board Amongst the thrill of seeing Verity Brown many heads of Nita Farahany states and the Judy Illes glitz associated Husseini Manji with Davos was Helen Mayberg the excitement Jorge Moll of realizing that Jonathan Moreno Edward Rover governments Student Representative Matt Baum around the ! world have Executive Director inally got it! They inally Karen Graham understand kgraham@ that there is no neuroethicssociety.org greater inancial or societal challenge to governments than the ! impact of mental health disorders. , depression and Project Manager other neuropsychiatric disorders destroy mental capital and wellbeing. One in four of us will suffer from a mental health Elyssa Pedote disorder at some point in our life. Alzheimer’s disease, epedote@ neuroethicssociety.org schizophrenia, depression and all have associated cognitive ! symptoms. It is these problems with attention, memory, decision- making, planning, problem-solving and impulse control which ! lead to an inability to work and dificulties in activities of daily living. Absenteeism and presenteeism at work for those with www.neuroethicssociety.org depression and institutionalized care for those with dementia constitute major inancial problems for global productivity. Neuropsychiatric disorders often go undetected and untreated, and therefore it is clear that early detection and early effective treatment are the key to the solution. We can stop these debilitating disorders from becoming chronic and lifelong. Enhancing cognition through pharmacological and other means, including good nutrition, exercise, education and ‘serious games’, will be essential. It is encouraging that governments realize that they need to promote good brain health across the lifespan. This will create resilience in individuals and a lourishing society. Since 75% of mental illnesses start before the age of 24 years, it is important that we detect and treat these in young people.

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Governments need to consider mental health as every bit as important as physical health. A commitment to neuroscience and mental health will ensure good mental capital and wellbeing for all members of society. It is a win-win situation since new discoveries and treatments will generate new businesses and aid the economy, while also reducing healthcare costs and burden to society. At Davos, there was much neuroscience discussion that ranged from very basic science, such as the Human Brain Projects both USA and European, to understanding the effects of poverty on the brain in children and healthy aging. Important sessions covered how we might, through Photo by Professor Guang-Zhong Yang, Imperial College, London new developments and technology, promote new discoveries which would impact on mental health but also wealth development, for example, much new technology including optical imaging and computing is being invented for the Human Brain Projects. These were discussed by Allan Jones, Thomas Insel and Henry Markram. Much of this will be applicable in businesses, including those using large databases and biotech companies. In addition, in one of my own sessions, which was moderated by Philip Campbell and Ara Darzi, there was extensive discussion of robotics and games for cognitive training. And the potential for theory of mind in robots was discussed in the session moderated by Martin Rees. All these sessions generated much lively discussion with the audience who were mainly CEOs, government oficials and media people. Both science and technology and higher levels of cognitive abilities and education are linked to increased prosperity (e.g. increased gross domestic product). Furthermore, investment in mental health has provided substantial economic beneit in the past and should continue to do so in the !future. Let’s hope that Davos has even greater contributions from neuroscience and mental health in 2015. ! !

Read a Good Book Lately? Attending a meeting? INS members would like to hear about it. If you have We want to hear! about it! enjoyed a book or ilm and would like to share with the There are lots of meetings coming up where membership, please send a brief review to neuroethics will be discussed - check the [email protected]. We can use calendar on the last page of this newsletter for everything from scholarly works and documentaries to some of them! Your fellow INS members will be iction and they don't need to be long -- a few interested in hearing about talks and paragraphs will do -- and they don't need to be new -- presentations you’ve seen. So please write a just relevant to the ield of neuroethics. Share your short (100-200 word) report on the neuroethics inds with colleagues. scene at your favorite conferences and send it to us. We’ll publish it in the next newsletter under your byline.

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Nominating Committee Election

An email ballot is coming your way. The International Neuroethics Society is holding an online election for the membership to recommend two new members for two year terms on the Society's Nominating Committee. Five of the eight members of the Nominating Committee are recommended by the Society membership. Three are selected from the INS board. Terms are staggered and two members’ !terms are expired. This coming year's committee will have to deal with ive seats on the Board of Directors as well as recommending candidates for the ofice of President-Elect of the Society to the Board. Three members of the Committee are chosen from and by the Board of Directors; the other members are chosen by the Board in light of a vote by the members of the Society. The current members of the Committee are:

From the Board: Hank Greely (Chair), Nita Farahany, Ed Rover From the Membership: Adriana Gini, Jim Giordano, Debra Mathews, Alan Leshner and !Richard Nakamura !Alan Leshner and Richard Nakamura are the members whose terms have expired. Those INS members who are “running” for the Nominating Committee are: Fabrice Jotterand, Denis Larrivee, Daniel Larriviere, Abdul Mohammed, Chije Ogbuka, Karen Rommelfanger.

How to Update Your Proile 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 [email protected] 2.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. !5. Click the SAVE button. That’s all there is to it. We are encouraging all members to check their proiles and make sure that all the information is up to date.

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News and Announcements

Brain Awareness Week Announcements: ! ! v Presidential Commission Request You are invited to a Brain Awareness Week Event: ! ! The Presidential Commission for the Study of v Hypnosis and the Malleable Mind Bioethical Issues is requesting public comment March 13th, 2014 19.00 - 20.30 at the Dana Centre on the ethical considerations of neuroscience in London research and the application of neuroscience ! research indings. Please see the following: We can change our bodies a little, by training or http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/ dieting, but the organ that is by far the most FR-2014-01-31/html/2014-02072.htm changeable is the brain; it changes daily as we experience, learn and remember. Like the rest of ! our body, the brain is genetically determined, so ! from the start we differ from one another. ! However, compared with the rest of the body, the ! brain is less rigidly constrained by its genes; ! v Priorities for Accelerating Neuroscience traumatic events and procedures such as hypnosis Research through Enhanced can change it so dramatically that consciousness Communication, Coordination, itself may become distorted. This talk by and Collaboration psychologist, Dr Peter Naish, will explore the of hypnosis and other consciousness- ! changing processes, and will attempt along the way The National Science and Technology Council to throw some light upon the conundrum of Interagency Working Group on Neuroscience consciousness. released its report on neuroscience research on ! February 25 on the OSTP website under v Better than Well? Neuroenhancement and "Resource Library" http:// Beyond www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ ! ostp/library/docsreports INS member Karen Rommelfanger will be ! participating in Brain Awareness week and ! speaking at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville ! on March 10th, 2014. ! ! !v Receive a discount! ! ! INS Members now receive a 20% discount on ! the paperback of Oxford Handbook of v AAAS Announces Theme for 2015 Annual Neuroethics. Meeting Go to http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/ ! 9780199680634.do. Click "Add to Basket" and The AAAS has announced as the theme for its then at the checkout, enter the discount code: February 2015 Annual Meeting "Innovations in AMOHNE14 Information and Imaging." Clearly INS members have a lot to contribute to the development and use of brain imaging. Proposals for panels at the meeting are due April 25, 2014. More details about the theme and submission of proposals are posted !at aaas.confex.com/aaas/2015/cfp.cgi.

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Steven E. Hyman, M.D. was a founding member of the International Neuroethics Society and was the president from 2006 - 2014. He is the director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute. He is also Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology. Hyman joined the Broad after a decade of service as provost of Harvard University. From 1996 to 2001, he served as director of the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Prior to his government service he was the irst faculty director of Harvard University's interdisciplinary Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative. Hyman is the editor of the Annual Review of Neuroscience and the founding president of the International Neuroethics Society. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academies of Science where he serves on the Council, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, and a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research. Association. Hyman received his B.A. summa cum The ‘Broad’ is a joint venture of Harvard laude from Yale College and an M.A. from the and MIT that is organized around University of Cambridge, which he attended as a technology large-scale platforms and Mellon fellow studying the history and collaborative research groups. philosophy of science. He earned his M.D. from ! Harvard Medical School. What initially drew you to Neuroethics ! and When? Where were you born? ! ! Even before college I was interested in what made I was born in 1952 in New York City human minds, brains, and agency. Given how little ! was known about human brain function in the Where were you educated and what did early 1970’s, I chose to study philosophy rather you study? than biology or psychology as a Yale ! undergraduate followed by history and philosophy Yale University - Philosophy, of science as a Mellon Fellow at the University of Cambridge University – History and Cambridge. As I ruminated over my plan to pursue Philosophy of Science, a doctorate in philosophy, however, I felt Harvard Medical School . increasingly worried. Philosophy seemed to be in ! the intellectual doldrums at the time and the newly Where do you work now? emerging ield of neuroscience potentially more ! promising given my interests. Given my humanities I am a professor at Harvard, and teach an background, there was a small chance of being undergraduate course in Neuroethics. This taken seriously by one of the few neuroscience course has become gratifyingly popular programs that existed at the time. So I took a more with students. My scientiic work is based circuitous route through Harvard Medical school, a at the Broad Institute, where I direct the residency in psychiatry, and then inally back to HTTP://WWW.NEUROETHICSSOCIETY.ORG 6 INTERNATIONAL NEUROETHICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER MARCH 2014 science with a 5 year postdoctoral fellowship in Where do you see the future of molecular biology. My career has been anything neuroethics heading in the next ive but linear with stints directing the US National years? Institute of Mental Health and as chief academic ! oficer at Harvard. Nonetheless, the messy I think that Neuroethics is growing in intersection of neuroscience, psychiatry, and importance as our understanding of the philosophy have remained at the forefront of my brain advances rapidly. Ethical issues have thoughts, my teaching, and much of my writing. been enshrined, for example, in the design ! of large brain projects recently announced How did you get involved with the in the US and the EU. In the US, the International Neuroethics Society? President’s Bioethics Commission has ! spent a high percentage of its time on I was fortunate to be involved in several Neuroethics. formative meetings, including the original ! conference sponsored by the Dana What advice would you give to someone Foundation, Neuroethics: Mapping the looking to break into the ield of Field. I was then invited to join colleagues neuroethics? at the meeting held at Asilomar that led to ! the founding of the Society, and during that It is important to develop great strength meeting was recruited to serve as the irst and academic credibility in one’s “base” president. discipline, whether neuroscience, ! psychology, law, philosophy, religion, or What area of Neuroethics interests you clinical neuroscience. From that platform, the most? one can begin to engage in the kind of ! open-minded sustained conversations that I am most interested in an enormous range are required for success in any of topics, but if I had to pick one area it interdisciplinary ield. My other advice would be questions of human moral would be to attend the annual INS meeting. agency. The next one is in Washington, D.C. in ! November 2014. What projects are you currently ! involved in? What was the last country you visited ! and why? The Stanley Center, which I direct, is ! focused on large-scale, unbiased genetic Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – I chaired a analyses of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, conference entitled “Improving Access to and autism. We perform much of the Essential Medicines for Mental, genotyping, DNA sequencing, and data Neurological and Substance Use Disorders analysis for the Psychiatric Genomics in Sub-Saharan Africa” The workshop was Consortium, a global collaboration. The sponsored by the US Institute of Medicine end goal is not a list of genes, however, but (the health arm of the National Academies) progress toward therapeutics. One recent in cooperation with the Ethiopian Health endeavor to help reach that goal by ministry. The meeting was one of several enhancing our ability to investigate in recent years to address the relative molecular mechanisms of disease is a neglect of individuals suffering with brain project to develop a platform that disorders in Sub-Saharan Africa by engineers into human stem cell lines improving access to treatment. genetic variants associated with ! psychiatric illness. This is followed by reprogramming stem cell lines into speciic ! neuronal types in vitro, and studying ! molecular and cellular phenotypes. ! ! ! ! !

HTTP://WWW.NEUROETHICSSOCIETY.ORG 7 HTTP://WWW.NEUROETHICSSOCIETY.ORG 8 INTERNATIONAL NEUROETHICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER MARCH 2014 What Are INS Members Doing? 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.

Adrian Carter has been awarded a 3 year fellowship ! Owen Jones in Vanterbilt’s LAW AND NEUROSCIENCE, Aspen (2014-2016) from the Australia Research Council to examine Publishers. Also featuring: Jeffrey D. Schall, & Francis X. Shen: the Ethical and policy implications of treatment-induced www.vanderbilt.edu/lawbrain compulsive behaviors, such as those seen in some patients ! treated for Parkinson’s disease. Fabrice Jotterand in the article Psychopathy, ! Neurotechnologies, and Neurotics, on January 28th Veljko Dubljevic and Eric Racine spoke at the “It’s not my http://link.springer.com/article/ fault, my brain made me do it!”, a café scientiique on 10.1007%2Fs11017-014-9280-x February 11, 2014 at the IRCM in Montréal. During the event, ! they discussed concepts of free will, neuroscience, moral Stephen J. Morse was announced as the 2014 Isaac Ray responsibility and autonomy.Videos from the café have been Award Recipient. The American Psychiatric Association will uploaded to the IRCM’s YouTube Channel: http:// present this prestigious award to Morse at the Association's www.youtube.com/user/ircm100 167th annual meeting in New York, May 3-7. Visit the full ! award announcement at https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/ Martha Farah is a recent contributor to Nature Reviews news/2979-prof-stephen-j-morse-to-receive-prestigious- Neuroscience. The journal presents a series of articles that isaac explore the interaction between neuroscience and the law at http://www.nature.com/nrn/series/neurosciencelaw/ Karen Rommelfanger is a panel moderator at the 20th index.html Annual Conference of the Healthcare Ethics Consortium, ! Embracing Change: Balancing Innovation and Our Humanity Martha Farah “Functional MRI-based Lie Detection: on March 21, regarding Neuroscience, Neuroenhancement Scientiic and Societal Challenges” , 15(2) Nature Reviews and the Future of Bioethics. Neuroscience 123 (2014), also featuring: J., J. Benjamin https://www.hcecg.org/Default.aspx? Hutchinson, Elizabeth A. Phelps & Anthony D. Wagner: pageId=1706746&eventId=843651&EventViewMode=Event !www.nature.com/nrn/journal/v15/n2/full/nrn3665.html !Details Joseph Fins in Orphans to History: A Response to the Karen Rommelfanger is speaking at the Atlanta Science Bucharest Early Intervention Project Investigators. Fins JJ. Festival Decatur, “Ask a Scientist Night” on March 24th, at Bioethics Forum 2014: Emory University discussing Placebo and Drug Development http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Bioethicsforum/ on March 25th , and at the University of Pennsylvania: Mind Post.aspx?id=6768&blogid=140 Over Matter: Placebo for Psychogenic Movement Disorders on ! April 3rd. Judy Illes recorded a podcast on the "Perilous Pursuit of ! Perfection: The Ethics of Neuroscience in Sport”. It was Barbara J. Sahakian was quoted in the New Scientist article rebroadcast as part of the UBC's , Intellectual Muscle Spit Test Could Allow Depression Screening at School education program activities for the Sochi Olympics. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25071-spit-test- ! could-allow-depression-screening-at- Judy Illes was highlighted for her work on incidental indings school.html#.UwODHmJ_swo was highlighted in the report of the US Presidential ! Commission on the Study of Bioethical Issues called Jennifer Sarrett contributed to The Neuroethics Blog with "Anticipate and Communicate: Ethical Management of ”Faith values and autism” a symposium held by the Marcus Incidental and Secondary Findings in the Clinical, Research, Autism Center and the Atlanta Autism Consortium on Febrary and Direct-to-Consumer Contexts", published in December 11th: http://www.theneuroethicsblog.com/2014/02/faith- !2013. !values-and-autism-symposium-held.html Judy Illes and Nina Di Pietro were featured in the Vancouver ! Sun on Nov 27, 2013 with their op ed ! "Co-ordnated approach needed to monitor drug therapy for ! kids”: www.vancouversun.com/health/ordinated+approach ! !+needed+monitor+drug+therapy+kids/9218035/story.html HTTP://WWW.NEUROETHICSSOCIETY.ORG 9 INTERNATIONAL NEUROETHICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER MARCH 2014

Calendar ! March 6th, 2014 The Best and the Worst: Empathy and its Contribution to Morality, University of Pennsylvania The Annenberg Public Policy Center is pleased to present a lecture by Dr. Jean Decety, Irving B. Harris Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Chicago. Visit: www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/rsvp/? eventdate=06-03-2014&eventname=The Best and the Worst: Empathy and its Contribution to Morality.&speaker=Jean !Decety to RSVP. March 6th, 2014 Spring 2014 Book Conversation Series with Carl Hart and A. Thomas McLellan, University of Pennsylvania Carl Hart, PhD Columbia University and author of the recently published High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self- Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society in conversation with A.Thomas McLellan, !PhD, Director, Treatment Research Institute. Check for more information on the calendar of the INS website. March 7th, 2014 American Psychology-Law Society Annual Conference Application of Neuroscientiic Methods and Research to Psycho-Legal Questions: This symposium panel will take place on Friday, March 7, 9:15 to 10:35 am at the American Psychology-Law Society Annual Conference (Grand Chenier, 5th Floor). The panel will be chaired by Ekaterina Pivovarova (Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior/ Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School). More Information at www.apadivisions.org/ !division-41/news-events/annual-conference.aspx?item=2 March 14, 2014 Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar, University of Cambridge This one-day symposium is hosted by the Department of Engineering, Cambridge. More information at !www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/news/article.php?permalink=c4d5b05b58 March 12-14 Brain Matters Vancouver, Vancouver, BC Brain Matters! Vancouver is an exciting venue for researchers, thinkers and members of the public to come together and explore the implications of brain science and social responsibility. See more information at !brainmattersvancouver.ca/ March 28th, 2014 Neuroscience and Law: Injury, Capacity and Illness, Indiana University IU McKinney On March 28, 2014, the Hall Center for Law and Health at IU McKinney will host this event as part of the Indiana Health Law Review Symposium. !To learn more about this event, visit mckinneylaw.iu.edu/events/current.cfm?eid=172 April 3, 2014 Optogenetics: Controlling the Brain with Light, University of Oxford A one-day symposium describing the latest developments and applications of optogenetic approaches in !neuroscience. April 3, 2014 Spring 2014 Book Conversations with Paul Ofit and Emmeline Edwards, University of Pennsylvania Paul Ofit, MD Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and author of the recently published Do You Believe in Magic? The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine, in conversation with Emmeline Edwards, PhD, Director, Extramural Research, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NIH. Check for more information on the !calendar of the INS website. July 28-August 6, 2014 Neuroscience Boot Camp, University of Pennsylvania The Penn Neuroscience Boot Camp is designed to give participants a basic foundation in cognitive and affective neuroscience and to equip them to be informed consumers of neuroscience research. More information at !neuroethics.upenn.edu/index.php/events/neuroscience-bootcamp ! ! Review our event calendar online and submit your events to [email protected]

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