2025 BRAIN AWARENESS WEEK – ANNUAL DISTINGUISHED NEUROETHICS LECTURE 2025 Distinguished Neuroethics Speaker: Laura Y. Cabrera, PhD, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Neuroethics, Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Philosophy, and Bioethics, Pennsylvania State University Panelists: Benoit-Antoine Bacon, PhD, President and Vice-Chancellor, University of British Columbia Christopher R. Honey, MD, […] Read More
The Hastings Center recently announced the election of its 2024 Fellows, including Neuroethics Canada’s Dr. Judy Illes. Hastings Center Fellows are a group of more than 200 individuals of outstanding accomplishment whose work has informed scholarship and public understanding of complex ethical issues in health, health care, science, and technology. For more details, please visit: […] Read More
Dr. Judy Illes had the pleasure to serve on the Scientific Advisory Board of EuroBioImaging this past week at the EMBL in Heidelberg, Germany. There were opportunities for robust exchanges among colleagues in many different forms of reality. Read More
Dr. Judy Illes participated in the World Health Organization consultation on neurotechnologies on October 1, 2024 and chaired the breakout group focused on advances in neuroimaging. Read More
In the recent World’s Top 2% Scientists List by Stanford University, Neuroethics Canada’s Dr. Judy Illes has been recognized among the top 2% most-cited scientists globally. “The selection is based on the top 100,000 scientists by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above in the sub-field. This version (6) […] Read More
Neuroethics Canada’s Dr. Judy Illes served on UNESCO’s groundbreaking Recommendation on the Ethics of Neurotechnology Meetings in April and August 2024 at Paris, France. This vital framework will guide companies and governments in paving the way for responsible neurotechnology. To read more about this initiative, please visit: https://www.unesco.org/en/ethics-neurotech/expert-group?hub=83294 Read More
Can new technology bring hope to children who have drug-resistant epilepsy? More than 500,000 children in Canada and the USA have epilepsy. About a third of those children continue to have seizures despite taking anti-seizure medications, also known as pediatric drug resistant epilepsy (DRE). Surgery may be one option for them, but what if […] Read More
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