Embedded beings: how we blended our minds with our devices

Like life itself, technologies evolve. So it is that the telephone became the smartphone, that near-at-hand portal to the information superhighway. Click the title to read more

Conversations in Ethics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

•• Prize winner of the 2014 CIHR Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health Talks Video Competition •• Welcome! This series was created to publicize and share just a few of the fascinating ethical issues that face Developmental Neuroscience today. Members of the NeuroDevNet/Neuroethics Core Research teams interview experts in their fields about the […]

National Board offers guidance for doctors prescribing medical marijuana

Neurologists who conduct research on medicinal marijuana and neuroethicists respond to the guidelines by the Federation of State Medical Boards on how to approach patients who request prescriptions for medical marijuana. Click the title to read more.

A day in the lab: Robillard Lab

At the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, Dr. Julie Robillard, assistant professor in the Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine at UBC, oversees research that brings together neuroethics and patient engagement. Click the title to read more.

CSNE Neuroethics student wins essay awards

Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) student, Kaitlyn McGlothlen, has won both the International Neuroethics Society essay contestand the Voices in Bioethics essay contest with a paper she wrote for Dr. Laura Specker-Sullivan’s 2016 Spring Quarter class at the CSNE, Ethical Issues in Neural Engineering. Click the title to read more.

Online advice for preventing Alzheimer’s disease often problematic: UBC research

New UBC research finds that many online resources for preventing Alzheimer’s disease are problematic and could be steering people in the wrong direction. In a survey of online articles about preventing Alzheimer’s disease, UBC researchers found many websites offered poor advice and one in five promoted products for … Click the title to read more.

The Neuroethics of Animal Welfare

Thursday, September 22, 2016 3:30PM Rm. FNH 40, Food, Nutrition & Health Building 2205 East Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4 (map) Lecture by Adam Shriver, PhD Visiting Fellow, The Center for Neuroscience and Society The University of Pennsylvania Overview: In this presentation, Dr. Shriver will provide an overview of the under-discussed intersection between neuroethics and […]

Illuminating optogenetics and the role of researchers on social media

Should scientists and science communicators use Twitter? That’s the question researchers at UBC’s National Core for Neuroethics and the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health answered by way of an investigation into the online conversation around optogenetics. Click the title to read more.

Opinion: IV vitamins — Say it isn’t so

In the world of complementary and alternative medicine, independence, quality of life, and prevention of disease are important themes. In the world of biomedical ethics, evidence-based medicine, trust, and fairness are key principles. Click the title to read more.

August Update on the BRAIN Multi-Council Working Group and Neuroethics Workgroup

Last week, on August 2nd, the Multi-Council Working Group (MCWG) for the NIH BRAIN Initiative met with directors and staff from the 10 NIH Institutes and Centers supporting the Initiative. The MCWG is an external group of scientific experts that provides oversight of the long-term scientific vision … Click the title to read more.