INTERNATIONAL NEUROETHICS 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 9ield, including: 10 INS Annual Meeting • Barbara Sahakian, University of Cambridge 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 terri9ic reception and poster session planned. We look forward to seeing you in San Diego! v HTTP://WWW.NEUROETHICSSOCIETY.ORG 1 INTERNATIONAL NEUROETHICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER NOVEMBERSEPTEMBER 20122013 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 of9ice 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 Neuropsychology at the Department of Psychiatry, and Medical Turhan Canli Mark Frankel Research Council / Wellcome Trust 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 Clinical Psychology, 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 psychopharmacology, neuroethics, neuropsychology, neuropsychiatry and Jonathan Moreno Edward Rover neuroimaging. 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 scienti9ic 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 HTTP://WWW.NEUROETHICSSOCIETY.ORG 2 INTERNATIONAL NEUROETHICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 2013 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 9ilm 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 9ilm and would like to share with the end from the 9irst part. The 9ilm 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. 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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 9ilm 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 9ilm like Jude Law McAvoy (X-Men: First Class), and Catherine Zeta-Jones. The 9ilm 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 re9lexive preparation of a meal while unconscious as he descends into psychosis. The 9ilm 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 con9licts 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 9ilm’s chaotic