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The Dana Foundation

Judicial Seminar on Emerging Issues in Neuroscience
Funded by the Dana Foundation and organized by AAAS’s Scientific Freedom, Responsibility, and Law Program with the Federal Judicial Center and the National Center for State Courts

PAST CONFERENCES
       
  June 2006 - Dana Center, Washington DC
Agenda
Speaker Bios
Power Point Presentations
Use and admissibility of positron emission tomography (PET) scanning in head injury - Monte S. Buchsbaum, M.D.
The Neuroscience of Moral Decisions - Joshua Greene
Mind Reading: Neuroscience Methods and Technology [PDF] - David J. Heeger
Cognition and Decision-Making - Read Montague
The Cognitive Neuroscience Of True and False Memories - Daniel L. Schacter
Neuroimaging and the Courts: Standards and Illustrative Case Index [DOC]- O. Carter Snead
Brain Death and States of Consciousness - Laurence Tancredi, MD, JD
ERP and fMRI Research in the Detection of Deception - Jennifer M. C. Vendemia

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DVD (video of seminar - available through NCSC library)
  December 2006 - Standford Law School, Stanford, CA
Agenda
Speaker Bios
PowerPoint Presentations
Frontiers in Neuroscience: New Windows onto Memory - Anthony D. Wagner
The Neuroscience of Addiction - George F. Koob, Ph.D.
Comatose, Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States - D. Alan Shewmon, MD
Mind Reading: Neuroscience Methods and Technology - David J. Heeger
Brain Imaging and Lie Detection: Avoiding a Collision between Neuroscience and the Justice System - Judy Illes, Ph.D.
The Science and Clinical Practice of Pain Medicine [PDF] - Scott M. Fishman, MD
Neuroimaging and the Courts: Standards and Illustrative Case Index [DOC] - O. Carter Snead

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