The Importance of Global Co-operation: A Statement on COVID-19 from Neuroethics Canada
Faculty and members of the Advisory Board of Neuroethics Canada, a group of distinguished neuroscientists, ethicists, and community leaders, stand together in this time of COVID-19 to emphasize the importance of global cooperation. While the closure of physical borders is a necessary means to curtail the spread of the coronavirus, intellectual borders must remain open to […]
COVID-19 Key Ethical Questions and Select Resource Links
COVID-19 Key Ethical Questions and Select Resource Links We face many challenges as we navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and do our best at physical distancing and supporting each other. Neuroethics Canada is pleased to offer a few key questions for everyone to think about. The links offer some answers from trusted sources.
Neurotechnological Innovations, Pediatric Epilepsy and Choice
Over 500,000 children in the USA and Canada suffer from epilepsy today (1,2). Thirty percent of children with epilepsy continue to have seizures while on anti-seizure medication, a condition known as drug resistant epilepsy (DRE). Click the title to read more.
Gene editing still controversial field
The farmers of Richmond can benefit from gene editing. Through this process, scientists can choose which genetic material to keep and which to change. It is a proposed alternative to cross breeding, a simpler process that combines genetic material from parent organisms and randomizes it in the resulting offspring. Click the title to read more.
Dr. Hervé Chneiweiss awarded the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur
Neuroethics Canada congratulates its Scientific Advisory Board member, Dr. Hervé Chneiweiss, for being awarded France’s Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in January 1, 2020. Dr. Chneiweiss is Chair at the International Bioethics Committee (UNESCO), and Director at the Neuroscience Paris Seine, Université Pierre et Marie Curie. Dr. Chneiweiss has significantly made contributions in his 26 […]
Alive inside: How do we reach ‘vegetative’ patients when tests show they’re aware of everything
It’s not clear how much Jeff Tremblay knows about the role he’s playing in a revolution in the treatment of the catastrophically brain injured. Click the title to read more.
Living Inside: How We Get to ‘Vegetable’ Patients When Tests Show They Are Aware of Everything
“The ominous events in the early hours of August 12, 1997 led to a tragedy in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan …” – by a ruling of the Queen’s Bench of the Saskatchewan Bench, issued in 1998. Click the title to read more.
Alive inside: How do we reach ‘vegetative’ patients when tests show they’re aware of everything
It’s not clear how much Jeff Tremblay knows about the role he’s playing in a revolution in the treatment of the catastrophically brain injured. Click the title to read more.
It may be possible to ‘alter’ memories of heartbreak so they hurt less, research finds
It’s now possible to alter memories of severe heartbreak to lessen the emotional pain associated with them, according to research by a McGill University team. Click the title to read more.
The Extraordinary Personality Changes Caused By Brain Implants
The British-Irish artist Neil Harbisson is a cyborg. That is how he identifies and how he claims the UK government recognises him, given he was allowed to appear in his passport photograph with the antenna which he had permanently attached to his skull in 2004. Click the title to read more.