Portable MR Imaging of the Brain: Practical challenges and ethical solutions for Indigenous, and rural and remote communities
COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS Thursday, April 17, 2025 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM PDT (time converter) Via Zoom Join us for an interactive conversation with experts to discuss how highly portable neuroimaging technology can enable research and understandings of the human brain. The advent of highly portable MRI (pMRI) offers new possibilities for field-based neuroscience research that […]
From Sci-fi to Sci-fact: New developments in neurotechnology for health and beyond
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, […]
Coyote Practices Neuroscience: The Cultural Determinants of Indigenous Brain Health and Settler Colonialism
Join the upcoming Neuroscience & Neurotechnology Seminar, hosted by SFU’s Institute for Neuroscience and Neurotechnology, on January 27th at 2:00pm PST! Topic: Coyote Practices Neuroscience: The Cultural Determinants of Indigenous Brain Health and Settler Colonialism Speaker: Dr. Michael Yellow Bird, Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba Abstract: Coyote is a trickster, a survivor, […]
What’s new in spinal cord repair?
COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS Wednesday, Nov 6, 2024 12:00PM – 1:00PM PST Join us for an interactive virtual event about research being conducted by the UBC-led “Mend the Gap” team for spinal cord injury (SCI). Drs. John Madden, director of the research program, Wolf Tetzlaff, associate director and lead of the biology and medicine team, and Tanya […]
Indigenous voices in neuroscience: Transforming research practices
The IBI Crosscultural Working Group, together with the ALBA Network, is hosting a webinar on Indigenous perspectives. As part of the ALBA-IBRO Global Diversity Series, this webinar focuses on the intersection of Indigenous knowledge and neuroscience, highlighting the systemic challenges that neuroscientists from these communities navigate in academia, and the ongoing efforts to redefine what […]
Challenge Workshop: Socio-cultural factors in neuroscience
Neuroethics Candada’s Dr. Judy Illes will be delivering a keynote presentation at SFU Institute for Neuroscience and Neurotechnology’s Challenge Workshop on May 15th! Join the discussion on how neuroethics may inform the paths forward so that neuroscience knowledge can be integrated with socio-cultural factors to guide policy and practice! Location: Morris J. Wosk Centre for […]
Whose Ethics Inform That Code? End-User Perspectives on Embodied Health Technology
February 28, 2024, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Register here: https://datascienceandhealth.ubc.ca/events/whose-ethics-inform-code-end-user-perspectives-embodied-health-technology-0 Speaker: Dr. Julie Robillard, Associate Professor of Neurology & Scientist in Patient Experience at BC Children’s & Women’s Hospitals, UBC Title: Whose Ethics Inform That Code? End-User Perspectives on Embodied Health Technology Abstract: In this presentation, Dr. Robillard will provide an overview of embodied […]
Placebo and the ethics of deception in brain research and clinical care
2024 BRAIN AWARENESS WEEK – ANNUAL DISTINGUISHED NEUROETHICS LECTURE A. Jon Stoessl, CM, MD, Professor of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia Tuesday, March 12, 2024 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM C300 Theatre, UBC Robson Square, 800 Robson Street, Vancouver, BC, V6Z 3B7 (map) Everyone is welcome! This public in-person event is free. […]
Neuroethics Seminar
2025 Neuroethics: Interdisciplinary and international perspectives Laura Y. Cabrera, PhD 2025 Brain Awareness Week – Annual Distinguished Neuroethics Speaker Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Neuroethics Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Philosophy, and Bioethics, Pennsylvania State University Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 11:30AM – 12:30PM PDT Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain […]
Neuroscience Grand Rounds
2025 A Neuroethical Perspective on Early DBS in Parkinson Laura Y. Cabrera, PhD 2025 Brain Awareness Week – Annual Distinguished Neuroethics Speaker Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Neuroethics Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Philosophy, and Bioethics, Pennsylvania State University Wednesday, March 12, 2025 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM PDT […]