Neuroethics
Highlights
Current Research and Projects
Advanced Neuroimaging: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues (NIH/NINDS). PI: Judy Illes, Ph.D. See also the Program in Neuroethics.
Ethical Challenges in Neuroimaging (The Greenwall Foundation). PI: Scott Atlas, M.D., Co-PI: Judy Illes, Ph.D. and Tom Raffin, M.D.
Fetal MRI: Patient Expectations, Clinical Experience and Decision-Making (The Children's Health Initiative). PI: Judy Illes, Ph.D.
Mindful Incisions (The Greenwall Foundation). PIs: Maren Grainger-Monsen, M.D. and Judy Illes, Ph.D.
Neuroethics: A Library (The Dana Foundation). PI: Judy Illes, Ph.D.
P50 Center for Integrating Ethics and Genetic Research
The Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics (SCBE) was chosen to become one of the first Centers for Excellence in Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) of genetic research through funds made available by the National Human Genome Research Institute. In July 2004, the Center started a 5 - year mission devoted to the proactive identification and integration of ELSI considerations into the design and conduct of current and emerging genetic research. Under the leadership of Mildred Cho, PhD, Judy Illes, PhD, and Joachim Hallmayer, MD, one aspect of the center will focus on identifying the ethical and social issues arising from research on the genetic contributions to, and mechanisms of, behavior and neurogenetic conditions using autism as a model. The initial research questions will examine the social evolution of autism as a disease and identity by investigating the history of funding for autism research, the changes in diagnostic criteria, the effects of medicalization and commercialization and the impact of educational and parent advocacy forces. The ultimate goal will be to convene a multi-disciplinary Behavioral and Neurogenetics Working Group that will draw from neuroethics, psychiatry, sociology, anthropology, epidemiology, pharmacogenetics, philosophy, law, health policy and others.Conferences, Seminars, Working Groups
Neuroethics Theme Group , Stanford Brain Research Institute, Co-ordinated by J. Illes, Ph.D.
Neuroethics: Mapping the Field Conference (co-hosted by Stanford and UCSF, sponsored by The Dana Foundation, travel support by NIH). Barbara A .Koenig, Ph.D. and William Mobley, M.D., Ph.D.
BioX: Ethical Dimensions of Neuroscience Research , Barbara A Koenig, Ph.D., Hank Greely, J.D., Deborah Satz, Ph.D., Judy Illes, Ph.D., and Linda Hogle, Ph.D.
Recent Publications Related to Neuroethics
Illes, J., Rosen, A., Huang, L., Goldstein, R.A., Raffin, T.A., Swan, G., Atlas, S.W. (In Press) Incidental findings on adult brain MRI: Age-related double dissociation and ethical considerations. Neurology .
Farah, M.*, Illes, J.*, Cook-Deegan, R., Gardner, H., Kandel, E., King, P., Parens, E., Wolpe, P.R., Sahakian, B. (In Press) Neuroethics and the enhancement of cognition and learning. Nature Reviews Neuroscience . (*Corresponding authors).
Illes, J and Kirschen, M.P. (2003) New prospects and ethical challenges for neuroimaging within and outside the health care system. Invited Editorial (Part II). American Journal of Neuroradiology 24(10):1932-1934.
Illes. J. (2003) Neuroethics in a new era of neuroimaging. Invited Editorial (Part I). American Journal of Neuroradiology 24(9):1739-1741.
Illes, J., Fan, E., Koenig, B., Raffin, T.A., Kann, D., Atlas, S.W. (2003) Self-referred whole body imaging: Current implications for health care consumers . Radiology 228:346-351.
Illes, J., Kirschen, M., Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2003) From neuroimaging to neuroethics. [document not found] Nature Neuroscience 6(3):250.
Swan, G.E., K.S., Cheng, L.S., Jack, L.M., Hemberger, K., Carmelli, D., Khroyan, PT.V., Ring, H.Z., Hops, H., Andrews, H., Tildesley, E., McBride, D., Benowitz, B., Webster, C., Wilhelmsen, K., Feiler, H., Koenig, B., Caron, L., Illes, J. (2003) Environmental and genetic determinants of tobacco use: A multidisciplinary, longitudinal family-based design, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention 12(10):994-1005.
Illes, J. and Raffin, T. (2002) Neuroethics: A new discipline is emerging in the study of brain and cognition, Brain and Cognition 50(3):341-344.
Illes, J., Desmond, J., Huang, L.F., Raffin, T., Atlas, S. (2002) Ethical and practical considerations in managing incidental neurologic findings in fMRI, Brain and Cognition 50(3):358-365.
Moseley, M., Bammer, R., Illes, J. (2002) Diffusion tensor imaging of cognitive function. Brain and Cognition 50(3):396-413.
Kim, B.S.*, Illes, J.*, Kaplan, R.T., Reiss, A., Atlas, S.W. (2002) Incidental findings on pediatric MR images of the brain. American Journal of Neuroradiology 23:1-4. (*First authors).
Illes, J. and Atlas, S.W. (2002) Introduction and commentary: Emerging ethical issues in MRI, In, J. Illes and S.W. Atlas (Eds.) Ethical Issues in MR Imaging. Topics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, New York, vol. 13(2):71-72.
The Dana Foundation, Proceedings: "Neuroethics: Mapping the Field" Conference
Other Representative Neuroethics Work and Programs of Interest at Stanford:
Agnieszka Jaworska , Ph.D.
The bearing of neuroscientific findings on the ethics of treatment
of Alzheimer's patients, addicts, and sociopaths.
Irv Weissman, Ph.D, Henry Greely, J.D., Mildred Cho, Ph.D.,
Linda Hogle, Ph.D., Debra Satz, Ph.D., William Newsome, Ph.D.
Transplanting human neurons into mouse brain.
See also Department of Human Biology listing in ethics at Stanford.
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