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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
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May 2009 - Reno, NV
Agenda
Power Point Presentations
Neuroscience of Addiction
Neuroanatomy, Methods, and Current Controversies
Immaturities of The Adolescent Brain and Voluntary Control
Violence and the brain
Legal Issues at the End of Life: Who Decides?
Neuroscience of Deception:
Limitations of fMRI


November 2008 - Washington, DC
Agenda

August 2008 - ABA, New York, NY
Agenda
Speaker Bios

Power Point Presentations
Lies, damned lies, and statistics Neuroimaging of deception
Mechanisms of Memory:
Can we distinguish true from false
memories?

The Neuroscience of Addiction
Mind Reading: Neuroscience Methods
and Technology

May 2008 - ABA, Chicago, IL
Agenda
Speaker Bios


November 2007 - Reno, NV
Agenda

 

December 2006 - Stanford, CA
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


Background/Supplemental Materials
DVD (video of seminar - available through NCSC library)

June 2006 - Dana Center, Washington, DC
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

Background/Supplemental Materials

         
 
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