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INTERNATIONAL NEUROETHICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER JULY 2013 MINI ISSUE 2013 Annual Meeting San Diego, CA November 7-8 2 INS Job Opening 2 AAAS Symposium on Neuroethics 3 Annual Meeting Speaker Biographies and Suggested Readings 12 Survey of the Field of Neuroethics Please join us at the Annual Meeting of the International Neuroethics Society in San Diego on November 7th and 8th – right before the Society of Neuroscience meeting. We have a remarkable agenda, with speakers from around the world and across a wide variety of disciplines – details about the speakers, their topics, and some suggested readings follow here. The meeting promises to be an exciting two days of neuroscience, ethics, law and networking! We kick off with a thought-provoking public event on November 7th at the Fleet Science Center on Neurogaming. On November 8th, we continue with panels on: •The Science and Ethics of Moral Enhancement •States of Consciousness: Neuroethics in impairments of consciousness, brain-machine interfacing and end of life decisions •Can Neuroscience Inform Us about Criminality & the Capacity for Rehabilitation? Tell your colleagues. Send your students. See the special offer for group student discounts on our registration page. If you have any questions or I can be helpful in any way, please let me know. Karen Graham Executive Director International Neuroethics Society 301-229-1660 [email protected] HTTP://WWW.NEUROETHICSSOCIETY.ORG 1 INTERNATIONAL NEUROETHICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER NOVEMBERJULY 20122013 Need a Part-Time Job? President Steve Hyman The International Neuroethics Society Administrator is a part-time position that can be done from anywhere via email/website/phone. Executive Committee Responsibilities include creating the bi-monthly newsletter, maintaining the group's website - www.neuroethicssociety.org - Turhan Canli handling membership issues, managing our Facebook and LinkedIn Mark Frankel pages. Hank Greely Barbara Sahakian You will get the opportunity to work with distinguished board Julian Savulescu members and be directly involved with the planning of the Annual Paul Root Wolpe Meeting. You can usually work just about any time as long as deadlines are met and emails are answered in a timely manner. Governing Board Verity Brown Be a part of the action! Hours are from 5 - 20 hours per week. More Nita Farahany details and questions should be directed to Karen Graham, Judy Illes [email protected] Husseini Manji Helen Mayberg Jorge Moll Jonathan Moreno Edward Rover Symposium: Ethical Issues in Student Representative Matt Baum Neuroscience Executive Director The American Association for the Advancement of Science and Karen Graham the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies are pleased to announce kgraham@ a full-day symposium on NeuroEthics on July 23rd. This event neuroethicssociety.org will be held at AAAS (1200 New York Avenue, NW). Registration is free for all participants, and we welcome all who are interested in neuroscience and its intersection with policy, Director of ethics, and society. Please feel free to forward this invitation to Communications colleagues who would be interested in participating in the discussions. Because of generous co-sponsorship by the Potomac Alison W. Bennett Institute for Policy Studies, we will also be webcasting the abennett@ neuroethicssociety.org presentations. Administrator We do ask that you RSVP for the symposium at http:// aaaspolicyfellowships.org/ethical-issues-neuroscience if you Cat Ferguson plan to attend either in person or via webcast. cferguson@ neuroethicssociety.org Also, if you are not yet on our NeuroPolicy mailing list and would like to join, please email [email protected] to be added. www.neuroethicssociety.org HTTP://WWW.NEUROETHICSSOCIETY.ORG 2 INTERNATIONAL NEUROETHICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER JULY 2013 International Neuroethics Society 2013 Annual Meeting Thursday, November 7, 5- 7:45 p.m. Fleet Science Center This event is open to the public. Neurogaming - What’s Neuroscience and Ethics Got to Do with it? Moderator: Steven E. Hyman President of the International Neuroethics Society, Director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Panelists: C. Shawn Green, University of Wisconsin-Madison The Scientific Basis for Neurogaming: How does neuroscience research inform the development and impact of neurogames? Adam Gazzaley, University of California - San Francisco The Applications of Neurogames: How are neurogames being used for therapeutic and educational purposes, and visions of what they can do in the future? Jonathon Blow, Independent Game Developer, San Francisco CA Ethical Issues for Neurogames What values drive neurogaming and what are the ethical issues associated with the development, marketing and use of computer games? Moderator: Steven E. Hyman President of the International Neuroethics Society Steven E. Hyman, M.D. 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 first 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 Association. Hyman is to become President Elect of the Society for Neuroscience in November 2013. Hyman received his B.A. summa cum laude from Yale College and an M.A. from the University of Cambridge, which he attended as a Mellon fellow studying the history and philosophy of science. He earned his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. HTTP://WWW.NEUROETHICSSOCIETY.ORG 3 INTERNATIONAL NEUROETHICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER JULY 2013 The Scientific Basis for Neurogaming How does neuroscience research inform the development and impact of neurogames? C. Shawn Green, University of Wisconsin-Madison C. Shawn Green received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester under the supervision of Daphne Bavelier. His work there focused on neural plasticity and perceptual learning - specifically how playing certain types of "action" video games leads to large scale changes in perceptual and cognitive abilities. Green then completed a post-doc at the University of Minnesota concentrating on machine learning and computational vision under the supervision of Daniel Kersten and Paul Schrater. Currently Green is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and an affiliate faculty member in the Games+Learning Society at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. His research focuses on specificity and generalization in learning - essentially, under what training conditions do you only get better at the trained task (for example, if you do a lot of Sudoku, you may really only get better at Sudoku - not other types of reasoning tasks) and under what conditions do you see generalization (for example, training on working memory tasks may improve performance on other tests of cognitive function)? His work continues to utilize off-the-shelf video games such as first-person shooters or simulation games, which have been shown to promote wide transfer of learning. The lab also custom designs video games to look at perceptual learning, cognitive abilities, and decision-making. The Applications of Neurogames How are neurogames being used for therapeutic and educational purposes, and visions of what they can do in the future? Adam Gazzaley, University of California - San Francisco Adam Gazzaley obtained an M.D. and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, completed clinical residency in Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania, and postdoctoral training in cognitive neuroscience at UC Berkeley. He is the founding director of the Neuroscience Imaging Center at the UC San Francisco, an Associate Professor in Neurology, Physiology and Psychiatry, and Principal Investigator of a cognitive neuroscience laboratory. His laboratory studies neural mechanisms of perception, attention and memory, with an emphasis on the impact of distraction and multitasking on these abilities. His unique research approach utilizes a powerful combination of human neurophysiological tools, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG) and transcranial stimulation (tCS). A major accomplishment of his research has been to expand our understanding of alterations in the aging brain that lead to cognitive decline. His most recent studies explore how we may enhance our cognitive abilities, and/or prevent them from declining in various neuropsychiatric conditions, via engagement with custom designed video games, neurofeedback and tCS. Dr. Gazzaley has authored over 70 scientific articles, delivered almost 300 invited presentations around the world, and his research and perspectives have been consistently profiled in high-impact
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