2014 INS
Annual Meeting

2014 Annual Meeting Abstracts

Abstracts accepted to the 2014 INS Annual Meeting are listed below. Posters will be available for viewing from 8:00 a.m. through the Poster Session and Reception, held 5:45 - 6:45 p.m. on Friday, November 14th. Poster guidelines are listed at the bottom of this page.

* Select abstracts will have an oral presentations at 5:00 p.m. on Friday, November 14th.

  • 2
  • FDA approval mechanisms for cognitive enhancement technologies
  • B. Moore
  • 4
  • The neuroscientific case against retributive justice
  • S.G. Morris, R.C. Robinson
  • 6
  • Neuroscience of self-regulation: Ethical and legal implications for criminal culpability, prediction and rehabilitation of criminal behavior
  • L. Boran, D. Delany, F. O'Brolchain, J.A. O'Konnel Kent
  • 7
  • Treatment rather than punishment: Neuroscience and mentally ill criminal offenders
  • N.A. Martinez-Martin
  • 9
  • How susceptible is the brain to the side-channel private information extraction? An experimental analysis using non- invasive brain-computer interfaces
  • T. Bonaci, J. Herron, T. Libey, B. Mogen, H. Chizeck
  • 10
  • Research involving medication withdrawal in subjects with mood disorders
  • A.C. Nugent, N.D. Iadarola, F. Miller, C.A. Zarate Jr.
  • 11
  • The admission frequency of neuroscience evidence in Canadian courtrooms
  • Z. Cheng
  • 12
  • Conceptual confusion at the heart of neuroscientific study of moral psychology
  • C.D. Meyers
  • 13
  • DBS for Parkinson Disease, impulse control disorders, and decision- making capacity
  • T. Bruni
  • 14
  • The potential impact Moll and colleague's Event-Feature-Emotion Complex (efec) Model may have on Rawl's Duty of Fair Play
  • C. Mora
  • 17
  • Canadian media discourse about fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
  • J. Aspler
  • 18
  • Exploring everyday ethical issues in Parkinson's Disease
  • N. Zizzom, E. Bell, E. Racine
  • 19
  • Wolves: the other social predators
  • S. Waller
  • 20
  • Organized skepticism relative to imaging studies comparing brain activation patterns between social rejection and physical pain
  • J.P. Konsman
  • 21
  • Neuroethics and neural correlates during hypnosis
  • V. Sironi, A. Gini
  • 22
  • Evaluating subjective well-being in patients diagnosed as vegetative, withvert awareness
  • M. Graham
  • 23
  • Biomarkers for gender identity : A medical jurisprudence approach
  • S. Kimmich
  • 24
  • The neuroscience of companionship: Fixing an arbitrary distinction in the law
  • A. Shriver
  • 25
  • Neurocognition in the decision to treat CNS Cancer: Bevacizumab continuation despite treatment failure
  • D. McAdams
  • 26
  • Moral courage in parents of children with autism
  • R. Fischbach, M. Eller
  • 27
  • A century of searching for sex or gender differences in the corpus callosum
  • V. Bentley
  • 28*
  • Personal identity and neurotechnology: Ethical reflections on modulating habit formation
  • D. Larrivee, L. Echarte, A. Gini
  • 29
  • Decision-making deficits in patients with frontotemporal dementia: Moral and legal implications
  • R. Darby
  • 30*
  • Pharmacological cognitive enhancement: What are the costs and benefits for the individual and society?
  • S. Porsdam-Mann, B. Sahakian
  • 31
  • The impact of a landmark paper on the concept of free will: Reconsidering the legacy of the Libet EEG experiments
  • V. Saigle
  • 32
  • Social and ethical behavioural impoverishment: Two cases of frontal degeneration
  • S. Anna, S. Passoni, G. Bottini
  • 33
  • Cognitive enhancement in the workplace
  • N.S. Fitz, L.Y. Cabrera, P.B. Reiner
  • 34
  • The language of personhood deprecates neurological disorders: Bringing disability studies in education to the neuroethics community
  • P.A. Boda
  • 35
  • Neurogastronomy and neuroethics
  • V.A. Sironi, A. Gini
  • 36
  • Keep calm and carry on? Neuroethical implications of mindfulness- based interventions in western medicine
  • J.N. Kohn, K.S. Rommelfanger
  • 37
  • Coercing freedom: Preserving neural mechanisms, promoting future autonomy
  • C. Epright, S. Waller
  • 38
  • The neural computation of subjective moral value
  • G. Ugazio
  • 39
  • A framework for comparing neuroimgaing techniques used to assess disorders of consciousness
  • A. Peterson, D. Cruse, L. Naci, D. Fernandez-Espejo, T. Bruni, C. Weijer, A.M. Owen
  • 40
  • One size does not fit all: The neuroethics of memory enhancement
  • N. Fitz, K. C.R. Fox, P.B. Reiner
  • 41
  • Gendering posttraumatic stress disorder: How gender bias in neuroscience research undermines strategies for mental health care
  • M.E. Bowers
  • 42
  • Putting neuroethics to work–and daily living: Issues and address of the use of adaptive assistive neurotechnologies within occupational therapy contexts and models
  • M. Sanders, S. Bondoc, B. Nadeau, K. Hartmann, H. Plischke, N.B. Kohls, J. Giordano
  • 44*
  • Progress in the neuroethics of biomarkers requires reorientation of the concept of disorder around risk of harm
  • M. Baum
  • 45
  • The future of neuroethics
  • N.S. Fitz, R. Nadler, M. Baum, G. Lee
  • 47
  • Understanding the practices of the do-it-yourself brain stimulation community: Implications for regulatory proposals and ethical discussions
  • A. Wexler
  • 48
  • Psychostimulants as motivational enhancers : Are 'smart drugs' the new prozac?
  • A. Erler
  • 49
  • Assessing and managing risks in systems neuroscience research and its translation: A preparatory neuroethical approach
  • J. Giordano, W. Casebeer, J. Sanchez
  • 50
  • New paths through identified fields: Mapping domains of neuroethico-legal and social issues of global use of neurotechnology by quantitive modeling and probability plotting within a health promotions' paradigm
  • M. Schnabel, N. Kohls, B. Sheppard, J. Giordano
  • 51
  • Neuroimaging and human consciousness: Is a picture really a thousand words?
  • A. Gini, D. Larrivee
  • 52
  • Exploring a speechless world. Cerebral communication in patients with docs
  • M. Farisco, A. Gini
  • 53
  • Art neuroauthenticity
  • E. Bonda
  • 54
  • Moral status and the capacity for conscious suffering
  • L.S.M. Johnson
  • 55
  • Welcome to the prodrome: Ethical issues in preclinical detection of autism spectrum disorders
  • J. Sarrett, K.S. Rommelfanger
  • 56
  • The possibility – and value – of a 'communitarian cosmopolitan' neuroethics for a twenty first century world stage
  • E. Lanzilao, J. Giordano, J. Shook, R. Benedikter
  • 57
  • Innovative knowledge exchange for neuroethics: Using graphic recordings to build engagement at conferences
  • J.M. Robillard, P.B. Reiner, J. Illes
  • 58
  • Brain scans in the courtroom: Cautions, challenges, and concerns
  • C. Hardcastle, V. Hardcastle
  • 59
  • The enhancement of mental traits: The gap between the biological fact, what science says and what is interpreted.
  • F. Güell, J. Bernacer
  • 60
  • Neuroessentialism and neurotransformation: Ethics of modulating free will in a parts oriented universe
  • D. Larrivee, A. Gini
  • 61
  • Ethical issues in fMRI research in patients with severe brain injuries in the intensive care unit
  • C. Weijer, T. Bruni, T. Gofton, L. Norton, A. Peterson, G.B. Young, A.M. Owen
  • 62
  • Neuroscience, big data and digital grave robbery: Reconsidering the legality of accessing posthumous neurological information, and the importance of neuroethical guidance
  • D.J. Friedman, J. Giordano
  • 63
  • Consciousness as a core neurocentric criterion for neuroethical consideration, responsibility and guidance of moral, social and legal regard and treatment of human and non-human beings
  • S.E. Loveless, J. Giordano
  • 64
  • Neuroethical challenges, tasks, and opportunities for development and implementation of a deep brain stimulation (DBS) registry: Lessons from the Tourette Syndrome-DBS International Registry
  • P.J. Rossi, J. Giordano, M.S. Okun
  • 65
  • Biology, change and choice: Neurotechnological and neuroethical impact upon the bio-psychosocial realities of deafness
  • H. Joharchi, J. Giordano
  • 66
  • Possible utility of a force-planning approach to depiction and guidance of non-proximate trajectories of dual-use neuroscience and neurotechnology
  • D. Economos, S. Sullivan, R. Wurzman, J. Giordano
  • 67
  • Histopathology and neuroimaging in progressive cognitive decline: Neuroethical reflections
  • A. Gini, R. Luna, G. Chieregatti, D. Larrivee
  • 68
  • Can neuroscience dismiss the concept of personhood: Competing philosophies of science as a source of neuroethical tensions
  • D. Larrivee, A. Gini
  • 69
  • Neuromodulation of virtue circuits: Ethical considerations of modulating positive character traits via neuroplasticity
  • D. Larrivee, A. Gini
  • 70
  • Ethics for pandora: Toward the development of neuroethical precepts to guide the use of neurotechnology to prevent escalation to warfare
  • M.M. Sinnott, R. Wurzman, J. Giordano
  • 71
  • An iterative rosetta stone for the consideration and application of neuroscience and neurotechnology in legal contexts
  • T. Brindley, J. Giordano
  • 72
  • Criminalizing drug and alcohol use in pregnancy: Legal and ethical implications
  • K. Hui, C.E. Fisher
  • 73*
  • An ethical evaluation of commercial brain training programs
  • R.H. Purcell, K.S. Rommelfanger
  • 74
  • The rising tide of tDCS in the media and academic literature
  • V. Dubljevic, V. Saigle, E. Racine
  • 75
  • Consuming brain interfaces: Exploring ethical implications of recent advances in physiological computing
  • K.L. Strong, K.S. Rommelfanger
  • 77
  • The medicalization of love
  • B. Earp, A. Sandberg, J. Savulescu
  • 78*
  • Substantive discrepancies between academic and public concerns regarding the ethics of neuroenhancement
  • L.Y. Cabrera, N. Fitz, P. Reiner
  • 80
  • Bringing brains to public health: Neuroethical guidance toward using neuroscience to inform public policy approaches to understanding and preventing violence against women
  • K. Shats, J. Giordano
  • 81
  • Brain, pain and neuroethical issues – and resolution – of the use of opioids in pediatric pain care: From neuropharmacology to neuroethico-legal and social issues (NELSI)-in-practice
  • S.J. Friedrichsdorf, A. Postier, J. Giordano
  • 82
  • Pediatric pain: Engaging brain research initiatives in practice through neuroethical deliberation and guidance
  • A. Postier, S. Friedrichsdorf, J. Giordano
  • 83
  • Neuroethical implications–and address–of the use of assessment neurotechnology in pediatric pain research and care
  • L. Buniak
  • 85
  • A proposal for identifying, categorizing and dealing with incidental findings in fmri research
  • R.A. DeWeese, J. DeWeese
  • 86
  • Female minors as victims of forced marriages to elderly men in Islamic and several other cultures. Child abuse as a major issue of crime law and violation of a primary human right by restricting free will and self determination.
  • G.O. Peker, S.N. Peker