INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 2013

IN THIS ISSUE 2013 INS Annual Meeting November 7 & 8

2 New INS President

3 Reviews

4 Member Publications

6 INS Working Groups Early Registration Discounts end on September 15 Don’t miss out! 8 Meet a Member Patricia Smith Churchland See the schedule here. The speaker lineup is gathered from giants in the ield, including:

10 INS Annual Meeting • Barbara Sahakian, Speakers and Readings • John Pickard, University of Cambridge • Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford 14 What are INS • Patricia Churchland, University of California-San Diego Members Doing? • Molly Crockett, University of Zurich • Jens Clausen, University of Tubingen • Lisa Claydon, Bristol Law School, University of the West England 15 Calendar • Joe Fins, Weill Cornell Medical College • Niko Schiff, Weill Cornell Medical College • Holly Moore, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute • Mauricio Delgado, Rutgers University • Catherine Sebastian, Royal Holloway, University of London • J. David Jentsch, University of California – Los Angeles • Honorable Robert Trentacosta, Presiding Judge of San Diego Superior Court

And don’t forget about the public program on “Neurogaming” at the Fleet Science Center on November 7. Seating will be extremely limited and an RSVP is required. https://neurogaming.eventbrite.com

More details about the speakers and panels may be found here as well as the suggested readings to prepare for the discussion.

There will be time to network with colleagues and we have a terriic reception and poster session planned. We look forward to seeing you in San Diego! v

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Barbara J. Sahakian Elected President of President the International Neuroethics Society Steve Hyman The Governing Board of the International Neuroethics Society announce that Dr. Barbara Sahakian of Cambridge University will be the next President of the President-Elect Society. She will take ofice in February 2014 and will serve a two year term. She follows Dr. Steven Hyman who was the founding Barbara Sahakian President of the INS and has served since 2006. Executive Committee Dr. Sahakian is Professor of Clinical at the Department of Psychiatry, and Medical Turhan Canli Mark Frankel Research Council / Behavioural and Hank Greely Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Julian Savulescu Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, and Paul Root Wolpe Honourary Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Governing Board Trust. After completing a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology at The University of Cambridge, she Verity Brown studied for a Diploma in , became a Chartered Nita Farahany Psychologist, and was a founding member of The International Neuroethics Judy Illes Society. Husseini Manji Helen Mayberg She has an international reputation in the ields of cognitive Jorge Moll , neuroethics, neuropsychology, and Jonathan Moreno Edward Rover . She has been involved in neuroscience and mental health Student Representative Matt Baum policy, including the Foresight Project on Mental Capital and Wellbeing, the Medical Research Council Strategic Review Report on Mental Health and the Executive Director Grand Challenges in Global Mental Health. Karen Graham Dr. Sahakian is co-inventor of the CANTAB computerized neuropsychological kgraham@ tests, which are in use world-wide. She is well known for her research work neuroethicssociety.org on cognition, depression, and cognitive enhancement, and other issues of importance to neuroethics. She has more than 300 publications in leading Director of scientiic journals. Her current program of research, funded by the Wellcome Communications Trust and Medical Research Council, investigates the neurochemical modulation of impulsive and compulsive behavior in neuropsychiatric Alison W. Bennett disorders, such as unipolar and bipolar depression and attention deicit abennett@ neuroethicssociety.org hyperactivity disorder. She currently serves as president of the British Association for Psychopharmacology. Her latest book (2013), with Jamie Administrator Nicole LaBuzetta, is Bad Moves: How decision making goes wrong, and the ethics of smart drugs. Terrell Brotherton tbrotherton@ In late 2014, the INS Governing Board will select a President-Elect who will neuroethicssociety.org begin to serve in that role in February 2015, becoming President in February 2016. The Nominating Committee, which is selected in part by the membership and in part by the Governing Board, is charged with selecting the slate of nominees to be presented to the INS Governing Board. v www.neuroethicssociety.org

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Reviews by INS Members

Read a Good Book Lately? legal challenges, because in the case of an unconscious person his answerability is questionable. But the real action of the movie is more complicated and full of conspiracies and lies. Watching this ilm I was surprised INS members would like to hear about it. If you have how the central part of it evolved to a totally different enjoyed a book or ilm and would like to share with the end from the irst part. The ilm subliminally refers to membership, please send a brief review to problems like the cognitive enhancement and clinical [email protected]. We can use trials of psychopharmacological drugs. Furthermore, in everything from scholarly works and documentaries to the scene with two psychiatrists when they discuss the iction and they don't need to be long -- a few side effects of psychopharmacological drugs, the actors paragraphs will do -- and they don't need to be new -- dialogue is much easier for cardiologist to follow and just relevant to the ield of neuroethics. Share your predict consequences of a new drug, just taking a blood inds with colleagues. sample, than for a psychiatrist. Another scene presents a problem concerning the advertising of psychopharmacological drugs. At the end, the ilm Side Effects questions the necessity of using an fMRI in the court A Film by process as a lie detector just to be sure that the accused Steven tells a truth. I recommend sincerely this ilm to all fans of good thriller movies and especially to those Soderbergh interested in neuroethical problems of daily life. By Anto Cartolovni Trance Anto Cartolovni is a PhD Fellow in Bioethics at the A Film by Danny Institute of Bioethics- Boyle School of Medicine and Surgery “St. Agostino By Alison Bennett Gemelli,” Catholic University of Sacred Alison Bennett is the Director of Heart- Rome. Communication for INS. Side Effects is the newest thriller by Steven Soderbergh. Academy Award-Winning This ilm is full of intriguing issues, including director Danny Boyle problematic issues concerning neurosciences. The (Slumdog Millionaire, 2008) director has tried to bring the audience closer to has made an action-packed understanding troubles with psychopharmacological brain-twister starring James drugs. Some famous actors are in this ilm like Jude Law McAvoy (X-Men: First Class), and Catherine Zeta-Jones. The ilm starts with a Vincent Cassel, and Rosario retrospective approach, a good strategy to draw Dawson. McAvoy plays Simon, audience’s attention. The main character is a young an employee of an art auction house who, after a blow woman who “suffers from a depression”; and to the head, forgets what he has done with a canvas he’s impulsively tries to commit suicide. She survives and helped a gang of criminals steal. He gets hypnotized in meets a psychiatrist, who is also consulting for a drug order to remember where he has hidden the company, participates in clinical trials, and who will multimillion-dollar painting. Vincent Cassel plays accompany her through this disorder. He gives her a Franck, the vulnerable, suave, yet ruthless mobster who medicine named Ablixa that will enhance her abilities will stop at nothing to get the painting. And Rosario and help her to manage a “normal life.” After using this Dawson plays Elizabeth, the unprincipled medication, strange side effects appear that she does hypnotherapist Franck hires to unlock Simon’s not realize, like a relexive preparation of a meal while unconscious as he descends into psychosis. The ilm is she sleeps. These side effects lead her, while built on the mind’s ability to fool itself. However, the unconscious, to stab with a knife her own husband. The director plays fast and loose with reality. You’re never consequences of this unconscious acts include potential

HTTP://WWW.NEUROETHICSSOCIETY.ORG 3 INTERNATIONAL NEUROETHICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 2013 quite sure whether what you’re seeing is actually University; Eyal Aharoni, University of California, Santa happening or merely the result of a character’s post- Barbara - Department of Psychology hypnotic suggestion. Who is the reliable narrator? See more here. Boyle is trying to unlock the secrets of hypnotism and the power of memory, but there are many conlicts of Barbara Sahakian et al., “The size, burden and cost of interest in Elizabeth’s behavior. It is never acceptable, if disorders of the brain in the UK” Journal of even possible, to use hypnosis to control someone for Psychopharmacology, August 2013. revenge. Despite its 4 star rating, other reviews called out the ilm’s chaotic storytelling, unbelievable Barbara Sahakian, “Burden of brain disorders ignored characters, frenetic camera work and editing. It is by government,” in The Conversation, 15 August 2013. unnecessarily violent, as it escalates toward a grisly climax. I wouldn’t call this great, but it was non-stop entertaining. Contains violence and torture, obscenity, sex and nudity. For more see the interview with the director at http://www.trancethemovie.com. v Stay : Tips for enhancing your professional presence online By Terrell Brotherton, INS Staff INS Member Publications A presence on the professional networking site LinkedIn is rapidly becoming essential for career Veljko Dubljevic, “Prohibition or Coffee Shops: advancement in an increasingly online world. With Regulation of Amphetamine and Methylphenidate for over 225 million users worldwide and a growth rate of Enhancement Use by Healthy Adults,” in the American approximately two new users per second [1], LinkedIn Journal of Bioethics. has established its role as the preeminent internet networking site for professionals. In fact, LinkedIn was Owen D. Jones, Seven Ways Neuroscience Aids Law, in reportedly the 23nd most visited website in the world in Neurosciences and the Human Person: New June of 2013 and online adults are more likely to use it Perspectives on Human Activities (A. Battro, S. Dehaene than Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram or Pinterest [2]. In & W. Singer, eds.) Scripta Varia 121, Pontiical Academy light of such impressive statistics, it is worth evaluating of Sciences, Vatican City (2013). how to best make use of this tool. 1) Remember that LinkedIn is a tool and as In a new paper in JAMA Psychiatry, a team led by Emory such, requires you to use it. Join groups, University neurologist Helen Mayberg, identiies a participate in discussions, and reach out to possible biomarker for predicting whether a depressed professionals with similar interests. Having a patient will respond better to an antidepressant or CBT. proile will only get you so far, you have to take the next step and be interactive. Jane Campbell Moriarty (& Bruce Green), Rehabilitating Lawyers: Perceptions of Deviance and Its 2) Post a professional photo of yourself. Part of Cures in the Lawyer Reinstatement Process, 40 Fordham establishing an online presence is providing an Urban Law Journal 139 (2012). image of yourself; people like to know with whom they are interacting. However, it’s Nicholas S Fitz, Peter B Reiner. (2013). The challenge important to remember that this is a of crafting policy for do-it-yourself brain stimulation. professional site – a picture from last Journal of Medical Ethics [Online First, 3 June weekend’s party will certainly make a lasting 2013). doi:10.1136/medethics-2013-101458. (open impression, but it is probably not the access through JME_BMJ). editorial,'Brain blast:' impression that you would prefer! 3) Keep your proile up-to-date. Your LinkedIn Kent Kiehl et. al’s new paper, "The Impact of proile is your online resume; it should be Neuroimages in the Sentencing Phase of Capital Trials" detailed, thorough, and well-organized. was recently posted to SSRN (and forthcoming in the Remember to update your proile as you gain Journal of Empirical Legal Studies): [Michael J. Saks , new skills and experiences. Arizona State University (ASU) - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law; N. J. Schweitzer, Arizona State

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4) Make your proile public. There may be necessary to consider and utilize new tools for reasons to keep your LinkedIn proile private or professional advancement. LinkedIn groups can to restrict access to it, but for the most part, expose you to novel careers, job postings can alert allowing more professionals access to your you to speciic opportunities, and discussions allow resume will only increase your chance of being you to establish an online reputation and interact noticed or contacted about an opportunity. with leaders in your ield, but these all irst require action on the part of the user. Don’t just have a 5) Include a headline. Your headline is a quick LinkedIn proile, have a LinkedIn presence. look into what you see as your strongest skillset. This may be your current position, but Like many professional groups, the certainly does not have to be. Include a headline International Neuroethics Society has a LinkedIn that will differentiate you from the crowd. group page for the beneit of its members. This page serves as a useful resource for connecting with 6) Write a summary statement that is thorough professionals similarly interested in neuroethics, but concise. Your summary statement is your and especially for connecting with individuals in a irst real opportunity to tell visitors to your diversity of ields within the overarching proile about your skills, professional interests, neuroethics umbrella (e.g. the INS group includes and work ethic. Emphasize your strengths but industry, law, research, and medical professionals). remember to have respect for your reader’s Additionally, this group has both a jobs and time; thorough but concise is the way to go. promotions page in order to keep members informed of new opportunities in neuroethics. 7) Get recommendations. Take the time to ask Finally, the INS group page highly encourages your colleagues and associates to write discussions among its members on current issues in recommendations for your LinkedIn proile. neuroethics, and discussion topics are frequently These recommendations function as an initial posted to the page. Actively engaging with the INS reference letter and can distinguish your proile group page helps to keep members informed not from those with similar skill sets. only of career opportunities in neuroethics, but through the discussion feature, also helps them to 8) Join groups. This is especially important when remain cognizant of a variety of neuroethics job searching. Groups are a good way to watch questions. The INS group page is a place that trends in the ield, make connections, and ind strongly encourages member feedback and out about new opportunities and jobs. Many opinions; if you’re looking for a way to increase your groups also include a job-posting page, so you LinkedIn presence, the INS group page is a perfect can ind out about opportunities before they place to start! make their way onto other career sites. [1] About LinkedIn: http://press.linkedin.com/about 9) Participate in group discussions. Group discussions are an excellent way to interact [2] Pew Internet and American Life Project: http:// with professionals in your ield and establish an pewinternet.org/Commentary/2012/March/Pew- online identity. Find out what issues and Internet-Social-Networking-full-detail.aspxv questions your colleagues are grappling with and engage with them on these issues. Discussions provide a quick insight into the Attending a meeting? pulse of a ield – take advantage of this and participate! We want to hear about it!

10)Reach out. LinkedIn is all about connections, so There are lots of meetings coming up this fall where don’t be afraid to send someone a message. If neuroethics will be discussed - check the calendar on someone’s proile or skill set interests you, ask the last page of this newsletter for some of them! them about it! Be courteous, respectful, and Your fellow INS members will be interested in professional in your message, but don’t hesitate hearing about talks and presentations you’ve seen. So to reach out and network. please write a short (100-200 word) report on the neuroethics scene at your favorite conferences and Perhaps the most important point from the send it to us. We’ll publish it in the next newsletter above list is that LinkedIn is primarily a tool. As under your byline. v increasing numbers of students and post-docs leave academia for alternate career paths, it becomes

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Be a Part of the San Diego Experience!

During the 2013 International Neuroethics Society Annual Meeting, you can be a part of the action! Get involved with one of the INS Working Groups.

We will again organize the Working Group dinners after the reception on Thursday evening at a nearby restaurant. Each individual pays for his/her own dinner and this is a great way to meet colleagues interested in the same things you are. Contact Karen Graham by October 21 if you want to participate. A list of the groups is below.

Once you are involved, each Working Group has a listserv created to facilitate an easy chain of communication. The emails on each chain are only seen by your fellow group members and we encourage you to use it often.

To sign up for a Working Group, contact Karen Graham at [email protected].

Each of the Working Groups will be advised through the listserv about the time and location of these dinners so please sign up or let us know of your interest.

Join us in San Diego. Cognitive Enhancement Deep Brain Stimulation Global Health and Neuroethics Neuroscience and Free Will Brain-Based Legal Implications, Neuroscience and National Security Alzheimer's Disease Biomarkers Addiction Neuroethics v

How to Update Your Profile 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 Terrell Brotherton at [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. 4. 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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New INS Administrator: Terrell Brotherton

Terrell joined the International Neuroethics Society staff in August of 2013. Prior to this, Terrell completed her doctoral degree in Neuroscience at Emory University, focusing on protein misfolding in neurodegenerative diseases. She then conducted post-doctoral research at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she studied neuroimmunomodulation in the context of traumatic brain injury. Terrell completed an internship in the Scientiic Responsibility, Human Rights, and Law Program at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2013.

Terrell’s interests include scientiic communication and neuroscience related policy. As Administrator, she will act as Assistant Editor for the Newsletter and will run the INS website. In addition to this position at INS, she also works as a freelance medical and science writer.

So Long, Cat Ferguson

Cat joined INS in the fall of 2011 to attend the annual meeting in Washington, D.C., and began working for the Society in the spring of 2012. She graduated from Northeastern University with a degree in neuroscience this spring, and begins a program in science journalism at UC Santa Cruz in the fall. She currently works as a freelance science and technology writer.

Be an INS Ambassador - Bring in 2 new members and extend your membership for one year for free!

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Patricia Smith Churchland is a Professor emerita of that there might be Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, other options. There I and an adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute. Dr. discovered that there Churchland will be a speaker at the INS Annual Meeting was such a thing as in San Diego as part of the panel on “The Science and graduate school and Ethics of Moral Enhancement.” research.

Her research focuses on the interface between My irst love was neuroscience and philosophy – called neurophilosophy. chemistry, with law a She explores the impact of scientiic developments on close second. I was, our understanding of consciousness, the self, free will, however, discouraged and ethics. She is author of Neurophilosophy (MIT from attempting Press 1986), and Brain-Wise (2002, MIT Press). She is either of these as a co-author with T. J. Sejnowski of TheComputational career since they were Brain (MIT 1992), co-author with Paul Churchland of unsuitable for women On The Contrary (MIT 1998). Her newest book is and I would surely Touching a Nerve (Norton, summer 2013). She has been meet with disaster. president of the American Philosophical Association There were no women and the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. She won at all in the law school classes, and certainly none on a MacArthur Prize in 1991 and the Rossi Prize for the faculty. Actually the same dire prediction was made neuroscience in 2008. She was chair of the UCSD about philosophy (“women cannot do philosophy, I am Philosophy Department from 2000-2007. She has done sorry….”), but this time my brain became very stubborn many presentations for television, including for Bill and I went on in philosophy anyhow, despite Moyers (1988), and most recently in the Charlie Rose predictions of abject failure made by one or two faculty. and Eric Kandel series: The Brain. Where were you born and how old are you? For graduate school I irst went to Pittsburgh where I learned a lot. Then, for largely personal and not I was born in a small farming village in British academic reasons, I went to Oxford, where the contrast Columbia, in 1943, the irst year the village had a between how science does things and how philosophy hospital. So unlike my sister, who was born at home, I does things became very stark and, I am sorry to say, was born in a hospital, a matter that apparently caused very embarrassing for philosophy. This experience lots of excitement in the neighborhood. really set me up for going back to science to understand Where were you educated, and what did you the mind. study? Talking about words is not enough to make progress on I went to the local schools, which turned out to be the nature of the mind. Hence at my irst job, on the terriic. At the end of the war, many English, Irish and side, as it were, I studied neuroscience at the medical Scots had few prospects in Britain, and so came to school in Winnipeg. The Manitoba medical school was Canada to look for opportunities. In a small town, folks remarkably wonderful to me, and gave me every were not too fussy about whether a candidate had an opportunity to learn about the brain. It changed my life. education degree, especially since some candidates had, for example, a Ph.D. in physics or an M.A. in literature. Where do you live now? Most kids were from farms, and consequently most had I am retired from University of California San Diego, a lot of chores at home. and I live with Paul Churchland, my husband, in Solana Beach, near San Diego. I am still an adjunct professor at The upshot was that school was often a kind of relief the Salk Institute, where I have always felt so much at from toil, thus giving us an eagerness to go to school home. I am part of Terry Sejnowski’s lab at the Salk, and and learn and escape the farm’s hard, and sometimes love lab meeting, which, ironically, is sometimes more tedious, work. For my undergraduate degree, I went to deeply philosophical than discussions in the Philosophy the University of British Columbia, as I did not know Department.

HTTP://WWW.NEUROETHICSSOCIETY.ORG 8 INTERNATIONAL NEUROETHICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 2013 What initially drew you to neuroethics, and when? What projects are you currently involved in? It was always obvious that anything as powerful as Moral development in children is an absolutely gripping social and moral motivation had to be rooted in the topic, and there are some very insightful, thoughtful evolution of the brain, as Darwin rightly saw but psychologists investigating the matter, such as Melanie Dawkins did not. But the real question concerned the Killen, Paul Bloom, Elizabeth Spelke, and Alison Gopnik. nature of the mechanisms and their origin. About twelve Where do you see the future of neuroethics years ago I heard a talk at the Salk by Larry Young who heading in the next five years? explained that oxytocin was critical in the formation of I am guessing that the nature of decision-making, and long-term bonds in prairie voles. To me, this suggested the role of both subcortical and cortical structures in a possible link between attachment and a acquiring skills in decision-making, will become neurobiological platform for moral values. I have been increasingly understood, and will cause us to relect on exploring that link ever since. (Hence Braintrust: What the criminal law and on how best to help people with Neuroscience tells us about Morality; Princeton 2011) decision-making dysfunction. In the meanwhile, neuroendocrinologists such as Sue I also expect the interface between the law on the one Carter, Larry Young, Karen Bales and others have hand, and decision-neuroscience on the other, will painstakingly uncovered some of the details of the story become richer and more complicated. Pat little of the role of oxytocin and vasopressin in bonding. Of announcements such as, “free will is an illusion!” are course especially in humans culture plays a huge role in unlikely to be productive, whereas close understanding shaping moral dispositions, because humans learn from of how decision-making and self-control can go off the social interactions how they are expected to behave. rails, or stay on the rails, will be productive. But the motivation to learn social practices is very powerful and is part of the caring and attachment What advice would you give to someone looking business. We are social by nature. to break into the field of neuroethics? How did you get involved with the International Learn as much as you can about criminal law and about Neuroethics Society? social neuroscience and decision neuroscience. Learn as much anthropology and history as you can, so as to free Judy Illes organized the irst neuroethics meeting in San yourself from parochial certainties about what is Francisco, and I gave a talk about self-control. Next, morally right or wrong. Remember that being in the Mike Gazzaniga, who has been a catalyst for organizing academy is no guarantee of having moral wisdom, and a lot in neuroscience, put together a small meeting in that ordinary people can be morally wise. v Asilomar of people he thought might be interested in a neuroethics society, on grounds that the ield of social neuroscience was beginning to develop suficiently that an organization could be productive and useful. I thought Mike was probably right.

What area of neuroethics interests you the most? There are two big bugaboos that plague neuroethics. The irst relies on so-called two-systems ‘theory’ (yes, those are sneer quotes), a set of hunches that is vaguely conceptualized, inconsistent across researchers, largely unsupported by data, and is related to the brain only in Listen to INS Annual the most tenuous way despite claims to the contrary. Meeting speaker Molly The second is the idea that in moral decision-making Crockett invite you to the either one is a rule-follower or one is a utilitarian, (in meeting here. v the sense of maximizing human well-being). Here is yet another dichotomy helping itself to truthiness. Those who are pushing utilitarianism are strikingly innocent of the many well-known problems with the approach, though they do seem to appreciate the problems with hide-bound rule-following. Studying the mechanisms for moral values in the brain on the assumption people are – or should be -- rule-followers or utilitarians strikes me as misdirected.

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Speakers and Readings For complete bios and more, click here.

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?

Steven E. Hyman, Moderator

C. Shawn Green Adam Gazzaley Jonathon Blow

Group Student Discount for the Annual Meeting

Students – sign up with friends and get a reduced fee. 3 or more students sign up together and registration is $75 each. Email Karen Graham for more details.

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Friday, November 8 8- 7:30 p.m. San Diego Marquis & Marina, San Diego Ballroom B Registration Required The Science and Ethics of Moral Enhancement

Barbara Sahakian, Moderator

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

Panelists:

Julian Savulescu Patricia Churchland Molly Crockett

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

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Jens Clausen, Moderator

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

Panelists:

Lisa Claydon Joe Fins John Pickard Niko Schiff

Can Neuroscience Inform Us about Criminality & the Capacity for Rehabilitation?

Holly Moore, Moderator

Panelists and their Suggested Readings for the panel “Can Neuroscience Inform Us about Criminality & the Capacity for Rehabilitation?”

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Mauricio R. Delgado “Social context and reward processing in the human brain” Delgado, M.R. (2007) Reward-related responses in the human striatum. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1104: 70-88 Fareri, D.M., Niznikiewicz, M., Lee, V., Delgado, M.R. (2012). Social network modulation of reward-related signals. Journal of Neuroscience. 32(26):9045-9052

J. David Jentsch “Voluntary inhibition of problematic behaviors: Origins and inluences” Groman SM, Jentsch JD. Identifying the molecular basis of inhibitory control deicits in addictions: neuroimaging in non-human primates. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2013 Mar 22. pii: S0959-4388(13)00068-8. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2013.03.001. Volkow ND, Baler RD. Neuroscience. To stop or not to stop? Science. 2012 Feb 3;335(6068): 546-8. Solis M. Enhancing the Brain's Flexibility Could Unseat Addiction. Scientiic American Mind. March 2013. Catherine Sebastian “Neural Bases of Emotional Processing in Adolescence”

General reference on neuroscience and the law The inluence of neuroscience on adolescent culpability in law Callous-unemotional (CU) traits in children Neural responses to affective and cognitive theory of mind in children with conduct problems and varying levels of callous-unemotional traits.

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

Hotels in San Diego

If you are attending the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) meeting, please register for hotel rooms through them. The Marriott Marquis and Marina is a SfN-designated hotel, and we understand that their rooms must be booked through the SfN.

If you are not attending the SfN meeting, other San Diego hotels may be available through a Google search or other travel web sites. For example, a Trip Advisor search on August 17 returned 25 options under “the best value” selection for the dates 11/7-11/9, but don’t wait. Your results may vary. Register for the INS meeting and make your plans as soon as possible. v

HTTP://WWW.NEUROETHICSSOCIETY.ORG 13 INTERNATIONAL NEUROETHICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 2013 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.

Hank Greely blogged on the Supreme Court decision Psychological Society. concerning DNA. As part of the Autumn Salon London series, over INS President Steve Hyman will lead the Society for September, October and November Salon will be taking a Neuroscience. lateral look at Sex, and Drugs and Rock and Roll. First up, will be 'Drugs' on the 4th September at Adam St Members' Kent Kiehl was proiled by the New Yorker. Club featuring Dr. Sahakian.

Debra Mathews explained the Supreme Court’s ruling on Julian Savulescu debated with Barbara Sahakian & patenting (or not) DNA. others on Smart Drugs at the The Times Cheltenham Science Festival June 8. July 12, Helen S. Mayberg, gave a talk to the National Institute of Mental Health Alliance for Research Progress on Julian Savulescu debated John Harris on human ‘Predictive Medicine for Psychiatry: Optimizing Treatment enhancement and freedom. for Depression Using Brain Imaging.” The Alliance is a group of advocates from national voluntary organizations INS member Paul Root Wolpe was featured in Big Think. representing individuals with mental illness, as well as their family members and all those concerned about them. Judy Illes explores transparent reporting of research ethics. Aleksandra Mroczko-Wasowicz is hosting, in collaboration with Frontiers in Psychology (Specialty: Nita Farahany, Jim Giordano, and Judy Illes were Frontiers in Consciousness Research), a Research Topic quoted in Nature: Promoting the Visibility of Neuroethics. titled "Perception-Cognition Interface & Cross-Modal Experiences: Insights into Uniied Consciousness." Hank Greely was interviewed on KQED about bringing Submission information here. back extinct species.

Barbara Sahakian warned against 'smart drugs' in a talk Several INS members participated in the AAAS/ Potomac about the brain and decision-making at the Hay Festival. Institute Symposium, “Ethical Issues in Neuroscience”: Talk is online here. Carol Erting, James Giordano, Alan Leshner, Jonathan Moreno, and Debra Mathews represented INS on the Research in her new book, Bad Moves was the topic of an panel, “Promoting and Teaching Standards in article in the Guardian. Neuroethics.” Video now available. Read the Dana blogpost on the event here. “Decision Making & the Ethics of ‘Smart Drugs’" in the Global Herald An innovative two-part television series, Brains on Trial with Alan Alda, will air Wednesday, September 11, "No group of chronic diseases costs the world more than 2013(Part I) and Wednesday, September 18, 2013 (Part II) brain disorders," said Barbara Sahakian when discussing on PBS (check local listings for local time). The program her new paper in the Journal of Psychopharmacology (see explores how advances in neuroscience may affect how publications section). It was covered: criminal trials are conducted in the future.The series • In Reuters consulted a variety of leading neuroscientists, • In the Daily Mail, and here psychologists, and legal scholars including Gene Beresin, • In the Telegraph Joshua Buckholtz, BJ Casey, Jason Chein, Nita Farahany, • In the Cambridge News Joanna Fowler, Jack Gallant, Michael Gazzaniga, Jay • In the World Bulletin Giedd, Hank Greely, Joshua Greene, Patrick Haggard, “Pill popping not such a smart move for students - Today’s Owen Jones, Marcel Just, , Kent Kiehl, undergraduates could be tomorrow’s addicted workers as Steven Laken, Bea Luna, René Marois, Stephen the use of performance-enhancing 'smart drugs’ rises,” Morse, Elizabeth Phelps, Marcus Raichle, Robert Sapolsky, Sahakian was quoted in the Telegraph. Rebecca Saxe, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Larry Steinberg, Nora Volkow, Anthony Wagner, and Thalia Wheatley. Her talk on ADHD was also covered by the British HTTP://WWW.NEUROETHICSSOCIETY.ORG 14 INTERNATIONAL NEUROETHICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 2013 Calendar

September 6, 2013 45th Meeting of the European Brain and Behavior Society, Munich, Germany.

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September 9-10, 2013 The European Association for Neuroscience and Law Annual Meeting, Bonn, Germany.

To learn more about EANL, you can read their mission statement here.

September 11 & 18, 2013 Brains on Trial with Alan Alda (PBS) explores how neuroscience could change the law.

Watch the series trailer here.

September 24-27, 2013 Bernstein Conference, Tuebingen, Germany.

The Bernstein conference is a rapidly growing annual conference of the Bernstein Network for Computational Neuroscience and has attracted more than 550 participants in 2012. For the irst time, the Bernstein conference will feature a day of pre-conference workshops. The goal of the network is to foster collaborations between theorists and experimentalists in computational and systems neuroscience.

This year, the conference is hosted by the Bernstein Center Tuebingen (http://www.bccn-tuebingen.de/). Tuebingen itself is a beautiful medieval town and home to one of the oldest European universities. It boasts a rich cultural community and is situated close to the Black Forrest within 2 hours train ride or drive to France, Switzerland and Austria.

October 4, 2013 Neuroethics Down-Under, Queensland, Australia.

The Neuroethics Group at The University of Queensland is hosting a one day conference at the UQ Centre for Clinical Research in Brisbane.

This one-day event will explore the ethical, social, legal, and policy implications of neurobiological research on mental illness and addiction and showcase recent contributions to these debates by members of the Neuroethics Group at UQCCR and other Australian researchers.

Details of the conference are available here.

October 11, 2013 The Center for Cognition and Neuroethics 1st Annual Conference on: Reason, Reasons, and Reasoning, Flint, Michigan.

November 7, 2013 Neurogaming - What's Neuroscience and Ethics Got to Do With It?, San Diego.

A public event at the International Neuroethics Society Annual Meeting.

November 27, 2013 Two Wellcome Lectures in Neuroethics for 2013, University of Oxford.

‘Brain mechanisms of voluntary action: the implications for responsibility’ by Professor Patrick Haggard, University College London and ‘The irresponsible self: Self bias changes the way we see the world’ by Professor Glyn Humphreys, Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University

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