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10 May 2009, 1:44 pm
BIAA Urges Cosponsorship of the National Neurotechnology Initiative Act On April 22, 2009, BIAA circulated an action alert targeting House Members to cosponsor the National Neurotechnology Initiative Act of 2009 (HR 1483). [read post]
9 May 2009, 5:00 am
BIAA Urges Cosponsorship of the National Neurotechnology Initiative Act On April 22, 2009, BIAA circulated an action alert targeting House Members to cosponsor the National Neurotechnology Initiative Act of 2009 (HR 1483). [read post]
25 Apr 2009, 5:00 am
A request has been received today from the Brain Injury Association of America that our readers be rquested to urge their house of representative member to Cosponsor HR 1483, The National Neurotechnology Initiative Act of 2009. [read post]
17 Mar 2009, 9:57 pm
The series is a gold mine for neuroethics and law scholars looking for science fiction examples, given its many stories about futuristic neurotechnologies from mind-swap machines, to dream-watching monitors (equipped with dream-control devices), to subliminal "speed learning" broadcasts that imprint history lessons directly on the watcher's brain, to various methods of undermining one's sense of reality. [read post]
14 Mar 2009, 9:00 am
National Neurotech Bill Introduced This week members of both houses of Congress introduced the National Neurotechnology Initiative (NNTI) Act, a bill designed to foster new discoveries and accelerate the development of new and safer treatments for Americans living with a brain-related illness, injury or disease. [read post]
13 Mar 2009, 12:18 pm
The National Neurotechnology Initiative is designed to address four key bottlenecks that slow the process of developing brain treatments:• Agencies do not coordinate their neurotechnology research. [read post]
9 Dec 2008, 8:28 pm
Univeristy of California, Irvine 11:45-12:00 Moderated Discussion 1:30-3:00 Working Group: Strategic Plan for Infusing Neurotechnology into Industry, Education, and Society 3:00-3:30 Break 3:30 Working Group: Strategic Plan for Infusing Neurotechnology into Industry, Education, and Society [read post]
4 Dec 2008, 2:47 pm
By promising acquisition of incriminating information from a person's brain in a way that avoids traditional concerns about physical or psychological harm, advances in cognitive science and neurotechnology bring the moral and legal significance of mental control into sharp relief. [read post]
17 Sep 2008, 8:26 pm
What would be bad, however, is a world where - thanks to our near constant-connection to the Internet - we can only get the benefits of these new "neurotechnology killer apps" (as Adam Kolber has aptly described them) by sharing private feeling states with the rest of the world. [read post]
27 Aug 2008, 1:22 pm
First Annual Meeting of the Neuroethics Society, Washington DC Program as of 7/15/08 Thur 11/13 7:30-8:10 Poster Set-Up, Breakfast Buffet 8:10-8:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks (Steve Hyman, Harvard, and Alan Leshner, AAAS) 8:30-9:50 Neuroethics of Pediatric Bipolar Disorder Moderator: Eric Parens (The Hastings Center) Speakers: Ben Vitiello (National Institute of Mental Health), Steven Hyman (Harvard University), and Josephine Johnston (The Hastings Center). 9:50-10:10 Break 10:30-11:50… [read post]
11 Jun 2008, 8:20 pm
Because forensic neurotechnology measures involuntary (and thus uncontrollable) brain activities, these techniques promise superior reliability over traditional polygraph machines, which measure physiological functions that a subject may be able to control and learn to manipulate. [read post]
11 May 2008, 5:00 am
"With nearly one in three Americans suffering from some kind of neurological illness, disorder, or injury, I believe it is time we take a serious look at how we approach and fund research into neuroscience and neurotechnology," Senator Domenici said. [read post]
13 Apr 2008, 11:55 am
New neurotechnology soon may be able to detect a person who is particularly nervous, in possession of guilty knowledge or, in the more distant future, to detect a person thinking, "Only one hour until the bomb explodes. [read post]
27 Feb 2008, 11:07 am
According to the Associated Press, later this year, a company will sell a "neuroheadset" designed for use in video games for $299:The headset's sensors are designed to detect conscious thoughts and expressions as well as "non-conscious emotions" by reading electrical signals around the brain, says the company, which demonstrated the wireless gadget at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. [read post]
25 Feb 2008, 9:06 pm
In amicus, the Neurotechnology Industry Organization also argues that 35 U.S.C. [read post]
4 Jan 2008, 12:41 pm
After two years monkeying around in social and cognitive neuroscience with Bob Schultz's fMRI lab at Yale, I came to LSE to think about some of the social consequences of neuroimaging and other neurotechnologies... and have gotten wrapped up in quite a few non-neuro interests along the way. [read post]
28 Nov 2007, 4:48 am
While we're a long way from having technologies ready for the courtroom, it's only a matter of time before courts are confronted with new neurotechnologies purporting to demonstrate the presence, absence, or intensity of pain symptoms. [read post]
28 Nov 2007, 4:43 am
While we're a long way from having technologies ready for the courtroom, it's only a matter of time before courts are confronted with new neurotechnologies purporting to demonstrate the presence, absence, or intensity of pain symptoms. [read post]
27 Nov 2007, 5:00 am
The Neurotechnology Industry Organization (NIO) has announced the top ten emerging areas of neuroscience that will impact the future of treatments for brain and nervous system. [read post]
18 Nov 2007, 6:29 am
As I've noted, I think that new neurotechnologies may someday move us in that direction.In the article that Professor Kolber is referring to, he addresses a future which could bring neuroimaging into the court room as objective evidence of the degree of pain that an individual is suffering:Pain is a fundamentally subjective experience. [read post]
