What's New?

Join INS members Grace Lee and Judy Illes on June 11th at the University of British Columbia for Cafe Neuroethique, to engage the public about advances in brain research for brain injury. Moderated by Peter McKnight from the Vancouver Sun. For more information, click here.

Barbara Sahakian, INS Board member, has a new book coming out in May. Bad Moves: How decision making goes wrong, and the ethics of smart drugs is available for pre-order here.

INS and the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics are proud to present two Wellcome Trust Lectures in Neuroethics, postponed until November 27th, 2013. Join professors Patrick Haggard and Glyn Humphreys from 5 to 7 PM to hear about the biology of decision making and how bias affects the way we view the world. For more information click here. 

Call for Papers: Neuroethics is seeking submissions for a special issue called "Concussion and mTBI: Ethical Issues. The full CFP can be read here. 

A seminar entitled "The Neural Basis of Reinforcement Learning in Social Contexts" will be held on June 6 from 1-2 PM at University of Oxford. University of Zurich professor Philippe Tobler will speak. Co-hosted by the Oxford Martin Programme on Resource Stewardship (OMPORS), OCN and INS this event is open to the public, no booking required. For more information, click here. 

The Neuroethics Group at The University of Queensland is hosting a one day conference - Neuroethics Down-Under - this year on Friday, October 4, 2013 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.

A new Dana Foundation briefing paper on oxytocin: Separating Hype from Hope, featuring INS members Martha Farah and Pat Churchland among others. For more information click here. 

Register now for the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness 17th Annual Meeting July 12-15 in San Diego! Featuring several sessions of relevance to neuroethics, including:  ethical implications of detecting covert awareness in disorders of consciousness, investigating animal pain and consciousness, and deciphering the information contained in patterns of human brain activity. For more information, click here.

INS has a new poster! Click here to see it and download. 

The project Love and Human Agency: An Interdisciplinary Investigation is holding a prize competition for essays on love, caring, and human agency. Essays are invited on any of a wide range of topics related to the nature of caring or love (broadly construed), or to the roles that love or caring play in human thought and action. Submit your essay by May 16th! For more infomation, see the website or contact queries@loveandhumanagency.org. Make sure to add "INS member" to your bio!