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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 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]

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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

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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 Scientiic 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 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 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 , which he attended as a Mellon fellow studying the history and philosophy of science. He earned his M.D. from Harvard Medical School.

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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 - speciically 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 afiliate faculty member in the Games+Learning Society at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. His research focuses on speciicity 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 irst-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 scientiic articles, delivered almost 300 invited presentations around the world, and his research and perspectives have been consistently proiled in high-impact media, such as , Wall Street Journal, TIME, Discover, Wired, PBS, NPR, CNN and NBC Nightly News. Recently, he wrote and hosted the nationally televised, PBS-sponsored special "The Distracted Mind with Dr. Adam Gazzaley". Awards and honors for his research include the Pizer/AFAR Innovations in Aging Award, the Ellison Foundation New Scholar Award in Aging, and the Harold Brenner Pepinsky Early Career Award in Neurobehavioral Science.

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Ethical Issues for Neurogames What values drive neurogaming and what are the ethical issues associated with the development, marketing and use of computer games?

Jonathon Blow, Independent Game Developer, San Francisco CA

Jonathon Blow is best known as the creator of Braid, which was released in 2008 and received critical acclaim. He is currently developing The Witness, to be released in 2013. http://kotaku.com/tag/the-witness

For many years Blow wrote the Inner Product column for Game Developer Magazine. He is the primary host of the Experimental Gameplay Workshop each March at the Game Developers Conference, which has become a premier showcase for new ideas in video games. In addition, Blow is a regular participant in the Indie Game Jam. Blow is a founding partner of the Indie Fund, an angel style fund for independent game projects.

Friday, November 8 8- 7:30 p.m. San Diego Marquis & Marina, San Diego Ballroom B Registration Required

9:15-11:15 The Science and Ethics of Moral Enhancement

Can we create a morality pill? Neuroscientists are discovering how hormones and brain chemicals shape aspects of social behavior relevant for morality, including empathy, cooperation, aggression, trust, and altruism. This work opens potential avenues for pharmacological manipulation of ethical values. In this session, speakers will review studies demonstrating how neuromodulators shape moral decisions, evaluate the evidence for and challenges facing the development of moral-enhancing interventions, and discuss the ethical implications of shaping human morality.

Format: 20 minute presentations and 60 minutes Q&A

Moderator: Barbara Sahakian, University of Cambridge

Panelists:

Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford Patricia Churchland, Univ of California-San Diego Molly Crockett, University of Zurich

Moderator: Barbara Sahakian University of Cambridge

Barbara J. Sahakian is Professor of Clinical at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, and Honourary Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. After completing a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology at The University of Cambridge, she studied for a Diploma in , became a Chartered Psychologist, and was a founding member of the International Neuroethics Society.

She has an international reputation in the ields of cognitive , neuroethics, neuropsychology, and . She is co-inventor of the CANTAB computerised neuropsychological tests, which are in use world-wide. She is probably best known for her research work on cognition and depression, cognitive enhancement using pharmacological treatments, neuroethics and early detection of

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Alzheimer's disease with over 200 publications in leading scientiic journals.

Her current program of research, funded by the and Medical Research Council, investigates the neurochemical modulation of impulsive and compulsive behavior in neuropsychiatric disorders, such as unipolar and bipolar depression and attention deicit hyperactivity disorder.

Speakers:

Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford

Julian Savulescu holds the Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, and is the Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics within the Faculty of Philosophy. He also is Director of the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, which is one of three strategic centres in biomedical ethics in the UK funded by the Wellcome Trust. Professor Savulescu is the Director of the Institute for Science and Ethics (which is one of the 10 founding Institutes within the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford.

In 2010 he was appointed an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Florey Neuroscience Institutes, one of the world’s top 10 neuroscience institutes, for a period of 3 years. He is a recognized world leader in the ield of practical ethics. He is author of over 250 publications with an H index of 32 and 100 cited publications. He has lectured around the world. He is Editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics and founding editor of Journal of Practical Ethics, an open access journal in Practical Ethics to be launched in 2013. His book, co-authored with Ingmar Persson, Unit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement was published by in July 2012.

Patricia Churchland, University of California-San Diego

Patricia Smith Churchland is a Professor emerita of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, and an adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute. Her research focuses on the interface between neuroscience and philosophy – a new endeavor called neurophilosophy. She explores the impact of scientiic developments on our understanding of consciousness, the self, free will, and ethics. On the topic of consciousness, her approach is to synthesize results and ideas from a range of research projects from psychology to neurochemistry, to test whether they it with each other or not, whether they make sense or not, and what new theories and experiments they might spawn. She is author of Neurophilosophy (MIT Press 1986), and Brain-Wise (2002, MIT Press). She is co-author with T. J. Sejnowski of The Computational Brain (MIT 1992), co- author with Paul Churchland of On The Contrary (MIT 1998).

Her current work focuses on morality and the social brain, and appeared in Braintrust: What Neuroscience tells us about Morality, published in March 2011 by Princeton University Press. Her newest book is Touching a Nerve (Norton, summer 2013). She has been president of the American Philosophical Association and the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. She won a MacArthur Prize in 1991 and the Rossi Prize for neuroscience in 2008. She was chair of the UCSD Philosophy Department from 2000-2007. She has done many presentations for television, including for Bill Moyers (1988), and most recently in the Charlie Rose and Eric Kandel series: The Brain.

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Molly Crockett, University College London

Molly Crockett received her PhD at the University of Cambridge. Her doctoral work focused on the inluence of serotonin on social decision-making. Currently, Molly is studying the neural basis of reciprocity, altruism and morality with the support of a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship, collaborating with economists at the University of Zurich (Department of Economics) and neuroscientists at University College London. Her current projects combine economic and neuroscientiic approaches to understanding social behavior.

Suggested Readings for the panel "Science and Ethics of Moral Enhancement":

Serotonin selectively inluences moral judgment and behavior through effects on harm aversion Moral behavior is not what it seems Moral judgment is more than rational deliberation Serotonin Modulates Striatal Responses to Fairness and Retaliation in Humans

1:30-3:30 States of Consciousness: Neuroethics in impairments of consciousness, brain- machine interfacing and end of life decisions?

Recent brain-imaging studies detected covert awareness in a small proportion of patients in vegetative or minimally conscious state. In rare cases patients were even able to answer yes or no questions. Brain stimulation can lead to behavioral improvements of the minimal conscious. What are the ethical and legal implications of these indings for withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment or food and luid? How reliable is communication via a brain-computer interface especially when it comes to end of life decisions? This panel will discuss a broad range of clinical challenges as well as ethico-legal implications with four renowned experts in the ield.

Format: Brief statements of 5 – 8 minutes followed by panel discussion and 60 minutes of Q&A

Moderator: Jens Clausen University of Tubingen

Panelists:

Lisa Claydon, University of Manchester Joe Fins, Weill Cornell Medical College John Pickard, University of Cambridge Niko Schiff, Weill Cornell Medical College

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Moderator: Jens Clausen University of Tubingen

Jens Clausen is assistant professor at the Institute for Ethics and History in Medicine, University of Tübingen as of February 2008, managing director of the Clinical Ethics Committee of the University Hospital Tübingen, and member of the Center of Integrative Neuroscience (CIN). He studied biology and philosophy and focuses his research on ethical and anthropological implications of modern with special respect to brain technological devices, enhancement and regenerative medicine.

Speakers:

Lisa Claydon, Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of the West of England

Lisa Claydon’s main interest area is the intersection between law and neuroscience and mental condition defences for criminal acts. She has an interest in what scientiic research into brain states does or may establish that challenges our existing notions of self and what it means to be responsible for acts that engage both civil and criminal liability. Professor Claydon is also interested in what research into brain states may tell us about pain and whether this will challenge existing legal notions with regard to treatment or end of life decisions. She is currently involved in a research project that is comparing the use of neuroscientiic and other scientiic evidence in six jurisdictions. She is the Secretary to the European Association for Neuroscience and Law, and was a member of the Royal Society Brain Waves: Working Group Module 4 - 2010/2011 Royal Society Neuroscience, Responsibility and Law http://royalsociety.org/brainwaves-law/

Joseph J. Fins, Weill Cornell Medical College Chief, Division of Medical Ethics

Joseph J. Fins is The E. William Davis, Jr. M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics and Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics at Weill Cornell Medical College where he also serves as Professor of Medicine (with Tenure). He co-directs the Consortium for the Advanced Study of Brain Injury (CASBI) with Dr. Nicholas D. Schiff. Dr. Fins was graduated from Wesleyan University (B.A. with Honors, The College of Letters, 1982) and Cornell University Medical College (M.D., 1986). He completed his residency and fellowship in Internal Medicine at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. The author of over 250 publications, Dr. Fins is a co-author of the 2007 paper describing the irst use of deep brain stimulation in the minimally conscious state and the author of the forthcoming book, Rights Come to Mind: Brain Injury, Ethics & The Struggle for Consciousness under contract with The Cambridge University Press. Dr. Fins is a Master of the American College of Physicians and current President of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. He is an elected Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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John Pickard, University of Cambridge

John Pickard is Professor of Neurosurgery in the University of Cambridge, Chairman/Clinical Director of the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre and Divisional Director for NHS Neurosciences at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. He leads a multidisciplinary team of clinical researchers, physicists, radiochemists, engineers, mathematical modellers and neurochemists, with extensive collaboration with neuropsychology, dedicated to advancing the care of critically ill patients after brain injury from ictus through recovery from coma and rehabilitation to inal outcome including the vegetative state. His clinical practice has included subspecialisation in complex necks and cerebrovascular surgery and is now focussed on the pituitary, tumours of the IIIrd ventricle and CSF problems. He is now establishing a new NIHR Healthcare Technology Cooperative for Brain Injury. He has published over 450 papers, co-authored a monograph on ‘Pseudotumor cerebri syndrome’ and has been Editor of British Journal of Neurosurgery, Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery and Neurosurgical Editor of JNNP. He is Immediate Past-President of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons, Chairman of the Joint Neurosciences Council and Honorary Civilian Consultant for Neurosurgery to the Army.

Niko Schiff, Weill Cornell Medical College

Nicholas D. Schiff, MD is physician-scientist with broad interests in the area of neurological disorders of consciousness. His research bridges basic neuroscience and clinical investigative studies of the pathophysiology of impaired consciousness, the neurophysiological mechanisms of arousal regulation, and the effects of deep brain electrical stimulation techniques on forebrain integration. He is Director of the Laboratory of Cognitive Neuromodulation where he conducts research examining neurophysiological mechanisms of arousal and forebrain integration as well as clinical studies of the pathophysiology of impaired consciousness. A diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Dr. Schiff is a graduate of Stanford University (B.A. with Distinction and Departmental Honors, 1987) and the Cornell University Medical College (M.D. with Honors in Research, 1992). He completed his residency in Neurology at the New York Hospital where he trained with Drs. Fred Plum and Jerome Posner and developed his subspecialty interests in the ield of impaired consciousness. Dr. Schiff is a co-author of the 4th Edition of Dr. Plum and Posner's classic textbook "The Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma". Dr. Schiff is an elected member of the American Neurological Association. His long-range goals are to develop neuromodulation strategies and improved diagnostics for the rational therapy of chronic cognitive disabilities resulting from brain injuries. Dr. Schiff's research efforts are supported by federal grants from the NIH (with current and past support from NINDS, NIMH, and NIDDR), private foundations (Charles A. Dana Foundation, James S. McDonnell Foundation), and industry (IntElect Medical, Inc).

Suggested Readings for the panel "States of Consciousness: Neuroethics in Impairments Of Consciousness, Brain-Machine Interfacing And End Of Life Decisions?”:

Monti et al. NEJM 2010 Cruse et al. Lancet 2011 Schiff et al. Nature 2007 Glannon, Bioethics 2008 Bendtsen, AJOB Neuroscience 2013

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4:15-6:15 Can Neuroscience Inform Us about Criminality & the Capacity for Rehabilitation?

This panel will discuss neuroscience and psychological studies that inform 1) how information processing (particularly social information) and decision-making may be mediated differently in individuals at different ages and 2) the capacity for plasticity in the brain across the lifespan, biomarkers of plasticity, and implications for rehabilitation.

Format: 15 minute presentations and 60 minutes Q&A

Moderator: Holly Moore, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute

Panelists: Mauricio Delgado, Rutgers University J. David Jentsch, University of California – Los Angeles Catherine Sebastian, Royal Holloway, University of London Honorable Robert Trentacosta, Presiding Judge, San Diego Superior Court

Moderator: Holly Moore Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute

Holly Moore is originally from Champaign County, Ohio, USA. She received a dual-degree in Psychology and Chemistry from Wright State University in Dayton Ohio, USA where she was introduced to research in the ields of developmental psychobiology and behavioral neuroscience by Michael Hennessy, PhD. She earned her Doctorate of Philosophy from The Ohio State University under the guidance of Martin Sarter, PhD and John P. Bruno, PhD with whom she conducted studies using in vivo neurochemical and cognitive neuroscience approaches to examine the regulation of the basal forebrain cholinergic system and its role in attention.

Her postdoctoral work at the University of Pittsburgh with Anthony A. Grace, PhD integrated these approaches with in vivo electrophysiological and quantitative neuroanatomical methods to study possible pathogenic mechanisms in schizophrenia using rat models. She is presently an Associate Professor of Clinical Neurobiology in Psychiatry and Research Scientist VI at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Psychiatry and The New York State Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Moore’s laboratory uses genetic, environmental, and pharmacological manipulations across development in rats and mice to examine plausible relationships between speciic neuropathological and psychopathological phenotypes in schizophrenia-related disorders and identify developmental changes in cortico- limbic circuits that may contribute to the risk for these disorders.

Speakers:

Mauricio Delgado, Rutgers University

Mauricio Delgado is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University. He is the director of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Lab and the associate director of the Rutgers University Brain Imaging Center. Dr. Delgado completed his graduate studies at the University of Pittsburgh and a postdoctoral fellowship at New York University. His research program investigates how the human brain learns from rewards and punishments, how it uses this information to guide behavior during both simple decisions (e.g., learning actions which lead to desired outcomes) and complex social interactions (e.g., learning to trust another person), and how it controls or regulates our emotions to avoid maladaptive decision-making. Dr. Delgado was the recipient of the 2009 Presidential

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Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and his research is funded by grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Science Foundation.

J. David Jentsch, University of California – Los Angeles

J. David Jentsch received his Bachelor’s degree in behavioral biology from The Johns Hopkins University (1992) and his PhD in neurobiology from Yale University (1999). His graduate work, conducted under the supervision of Professor Robert Roth, focused on characterizing the biochemical changes in prefrontal cortical regions associated with prolonged experience with drugs of abuse. After conducting post-doctoral training periods at the University of Pittsburgh and Yale University, Dr. Jentsch was appointed as an Assistant Professor at UCLA in 2001, where he is now a Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry; he is also Associate Director for Research of the Brain Research Institute. His research focuses on genetic and neurochemical mechanisms that inluence cognition, impulse control and decision-making in laboratory animals.

In reaction to escalating extremism amongst animal rights activists, which culminated in the irebombing of his car in 2009, Dr. Jentsch formed the group Pro-test for Science. He and his colleagues play a prominent role in scientiic advocacy by participating in the response of the scientiic community to attacks against researchers. In line with these efforts, Dr. Jentsch is a member of Board of Directors of the biomedical research advocacy group: Americans for Medical Progress.

Catherine Sebastian, Royal Holloway, University of London

Catherine Sebastian is a Lecturer [Assistant Professor] at Royal Holloway, University of London. She studied psychology and neuroscience at the University of Oxford, before completing a PhD and postdoc at University College London. She is interested in the development of social and emotional processing during adolescence. In particular, her research looks at how young people learn to regulate or control their emotions, and how this relates to socioemotional wellbeing and mental health. She has worked with typically developing adolescents as well as those with autism spectrum conditions and conduct problems. She uses research methods from cognitive neuroscience and developmental psychology, including functional and structural neuroimaging, cognitive testing, and questionnaires.

Honorable Robert Trentacosta, Presiding Judge, San Diego Superior Court, Superior Court of California, the third largest court in the United States.

Judge Trentacosta has held numerous leadership positions within the court including Assistant Presiding Judge and Supervising Criminal Judge. He is a member of the California Supreme Court Ethics Committee providing ethical advice to all judges in the State of California. In addition, he is the Vice-Chair of the Presiding Judge Advisory Committee representing the 58 counties in the State of California tasked with providing advice and recommendations to the Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court. In 2013 Judge Trentacosta was named “Judge of the Year” by the San Diego County Bar Association Law Foundation.

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Suggested Readings for the panel “Can Neuroscience Inform Us about Criminality & A Survey on the Field of Neuroethics the Capacity for Rehabilitation?” Neuroethics as a Field: How much has it grown, about Mauricio R. Delgado “Social context and reward what, and by whom? processing in the human brain” The International Neuroethics Society and the Delgado, M.R. (2007) Reward-related responses in the University of Pennsylvania Center for Neuroscience human striatum. Annals of the New York Academy of and Society collaborated on a survey "to examine the Science, 1104: 70-88 ield of neuroethics as it has developed over the last Fareri, D.M., Niznikiewicz, M., Lee, V., Delgado, M.R. 12 years. It is common to date the “birth” of (2012). Social network modulation of reward-related neuroethics as a ield to 2002, when several signals. Journal of Neuroscience. 32(26):9045-9052 conferences gathered representatives from organizations such as the American Association for J. David Jentsch “Voluntary inhibition of the Advancement of Science, the journal Neuron, the problematic behaviors: Origins and inluences” University of Pennsylvania Centers for Bioethics andCognitive Neuroscience, Stanford University, the Groman SM, Jentsch JD. Identifying the molecular basis Royal Society of London, and the Dana Foundation to of inhibitory control deicits in addictions: map out major concerns for the ield. neuroimaging in non-human primates. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2013 Mar 22. pii: S0959-4388(13)00068-8. To capture the full trajectory of the growth of doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2013.03.001. neuroethics, 2000 was established as the foundation Volkow ND, Baler RD. Neuroscience. To stop or not to year. Elena Gooray, University of Pennsylvania and stop? Science. 2012 Feb 3;335(6068):546-8. Cat Ferguson, International Neuroethics Society, Solis M. Enhancing the Brain's Flexibility Could Unseat collaborated on the research with the supervision Addiction. Scientiic American Mind. March 2013. and advice of Martha Farah.

Catherine Sebastian, PhD “Neural Bases of They focused on the following questions: 1) How has Emotional Processing in Adolescence” its level of coverage in academic journals and books changed over time?; 2) What topics in neuroethics General reference on neuroscience and the law have been most popular?; and 3) What have been the The inluence of neuroscience on adolescent culpability most common professional backgrounds of journal in law article authors? To answer the questions, they looked Callous-unemotional (CU) traits in children at books and journal articles as the two major print Neural responses to affective and cognitive theory of sources for the academic discussion of neuroethics. mind in children with conduct problems and varying levels of callous-unemotional traits. See the results here.

2013 INS Program Committee

Barbara Sahakian, Co-Chair, University of Cambridge Mark Frankel, Co-Chair, American Association for the  Advancement of Science Jens Clauson, University of Tubingen INS would like to help you share your scholarly articles. Please send the complete Lisa Claydon, University of Manchester, University of citations for your 2013 published papers. If the West of England the paper is freely accessible, please also send Molly Crockett, University of Zurich the link. We will publish them in the September Newsletter and include them on a Helen Mayberg, Emory University page on our website. Holly Moore, Columbia University  John Pickard, University of Cambridge

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