segunda-feira, 27 de julho de 2009

1. Dr. Amy Gutmann, University of Pennsylvania President
introduces the Penn Media Seminar on Neuroscience and Society

2. Living in a Neurosociety: A Neuroethics Overview
Dr. Martha Farah, professor of natural sciences and director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Penn.
Recent developments in cognitive and affective neuroscience that have enabled new applications of neuroscience.
Ways that neuroscience will impact our lives, beyond the science lab and medical clinic, in the home, office, classroom, courtroom and battlefield.

Dr. Geoffrey K. Aguirre, assistant professor of neurology and member of the Center for Functional Neuroimaging at Penn.
What can and can't be claimed from a functional neuroimaging study.
Use of functional MRI to "read brains"
Dr. Anjan Chatterjee, professor of neurology at Penn and faculty member of Penns Center for Cognitive Neuroscience.
Ethical dilemmas arising from advances in the neurosciences.
Enhancing cognitive and emotional states in normal subjects.
Patients and physicians challenges in cosmetic neurology.

5. Transhumanism: Enabling and Transcending the Human Brain
Dr. Susan Schneider, assistant professor of philosophy and an affiliated faculty member with Penns Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science.
Philosophical controversies surrounding cognitive enhancement.
Neuroscience, science fiction and the self
Dr. Adrian Raine, professor of criminology and psychiatry at Penn.
An examination of the brain basis to crime and violence.
What we can do to prevent future crime and the neuroethical implications

7. The Brain and National Defense: A Neuroethics History
Dr. Jonathan Moreno, professor of medical ethics and of History and Sociology of Science at Penn.
The role of brain research in national defense.
How modern neuroscience may contribute to national intelligence operations and concerns
Dr. Stephen Morse, professor of law and professor of psychology and law in psychiatry at the Penn Law School.
The new neuroscience and its impact on the criminal law's theory of responsibility