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Addiction is a brain disease and it still matters (Alan Leshner)

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Dr. Leshner served as CEO of AAAS, the world's largest, multi-disciplinary scientific and engineering society, and Executive Publisher of its journal Science from 2001 until [...]

7th Annual GVR Khodadad Lecture – “From Selfish to Selfless: the Psychopharmacology of Human Altruism” (Molly Crockett)

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Molly Crockett is an assistant professor of psychology at Yale University and a distinguished research fellow at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics. Prior to joining [...]

Making addiction a brain disease: A social history of addiction neuroscience (Nancy Campbell)

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Professor Nancy Campbell is a Professor and the Department Head of the Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) in the School of Humanities, Arts [...]

For Better or Worse: Society’s Impact on the Developing Brain (Allyson Mackey PhD)

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Allyson Mackey PhD is interested in how changes in the brain give rise to changes in the mind, both as development unfolds, and in response [...]

Genetics, Social Class, and Education in Child Development (Elliot Tucker Drob PhD)

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Elliot Tucker-Drob received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Virginia. He has held fellowships at Harvard Medical School and the Max Planck Institute [...]

The Development of Neuro Cognitive Systems Underpinning Callous Unemotional Traits and Antisocial Behavior (James Blair PhD)

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James Blair, Ph.D. is Chief of the Unit on Affective Cognitive Neuroscience in the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program of the National Institute of Mental [...]

Childhood Recovered: Manipulating Brain Plasticity (Takao Hensch PhD)

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Takao K. Hensch, PhD, is joint professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School at Boston Children’s Hospital, and professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard’s [...]

Adolescent Brain Science and Legal Policy in Retrospect and Prospect (Laurence Steinberg Ph.D.)

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Laurence Steinberg, Ph.D., one of the world's leading experts on adolescence, is a Distinguished University Professor and the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology at [...]

Intergroup Conflict and Conciliation: Insights from Psychology and Neuroscience (Rebecca Saxe, PhD)

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How do people understand each other, develop and change attitudes toward each other, and solve problems together? How are these processes influenced by group identity [...]

Health Inequalities as Problem for Neuroscience (Peter Gianaros, PhD)

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Why do poor people suffer with more chronic diseases and die at younger ages? Psychosocial stress is a big part of the answer, and of [...]

What’s New in Neurolaw (David Eagleman, PhD)

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David Eagleman is a neuroscientist and a New York Times bestselling author. He directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action at the Baylor College of [...]

Brain Training: Current Challenges and Potential Resolutions (Susanne Jaeggi, PhD)

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Susanne Jaeggi investigates working memory and executive control across the lifespan with behavioral and neuroimaging methods. Dr. Jaeggi is known for her research on whether [...]

Magic or Tragic? The Use of Animals in Research (Prof. Colin Blakemore, PhD)

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Colin Blakemore's body of work is concerned with many aspects of vision, the early development of the brain and plasticity of the cerebral cortex. He [...]

Brains on Show: Neuroscience in the Visual Arts (Hugo Spiers, PhD)

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No realm of life is left unexplored by artists. A myriad of forms and objects are explored, but one object is different. Unlike all other [...]

The Neuroscience of Enhancement: A Framework for Ethical Analysis (William Casebeer, PhD)

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William Casebeer, PhD is well known for his work in neuroethics, the evolution of morality, the intersections of cognitive science and national security policy, philosophy [...]

Neurophilosophy and the Origin of Moral Practices (Patricia Churchland)

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Patricia Churchland, D.Litt, B.Phil, LLD, was an early proponent of the mutual relevance of neuroscience and philosophy. In her own work she has used developments [...]

Promise and Pitfalls of Neuroeducation (John Gabrieli)

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John Gabrieli is the director of the Athinoula A. Martinos Imaging Center at the McGovern Institute. He is an Investigator at the Institute, with faculty appointments [...]

From Moral Concern to Moral Constraint: The Next Frontier of Neuroethics (Fiery Cushman, PhD)

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Slides for this video can be found here. Fiery Cushman is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, where he directs the Moral Psychology Research Laboratory. [...]

Neuroeconomics and the Future of the Decision Sciences (Paul Glimcher)

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Slides for this video can be found here. Paul Glimcher, PhD, is Director at New York University’s Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Decision Making, and [...]

Childhood Poverty and Brain Development: From Science to Policy (Martha J. Farah)

CNS Public Talk Series

Martha J. Farah was educated at MIT and Harvard, and has taught at Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently the Walter [...]

4th Annual GVR Khodadad Lecture: The Neuroscience of Selfishness: Psychopathy as an Initial Model (Adrian Raine, D.Phil)

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Adrian Raine is the Richard Perry University Professor in the Departments of Criminology, Psychiatry, and Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Raine's main area of interest is [...]

From Do-It-Yourself to Direct-to-Consumer: the Regulation of Consumer Noninvasive Brain Stimulation Devices (Anna Wexler)

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Anna Wexler is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is currently a 2015-2016 [...]

Cognitive Enhancement with Noninvasive Brain Stimulation (Roy Hamilton, MD)

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Dr. Hamilton is an Assistant Professor in Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [...]

Inevitable Mens Rea and Legal Insanity in the Age of Neuroscience

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Dr. Stephen Morse is the Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law and a Professor of Psychology and Law in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. [...]

Neuroimaging in the Courtroom: a Perspective From the Witness Stand (Geoffrey K. Aguirre, MD, PhD)

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Geoffrey K. Aguirre is an Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania and a cognitive neuroscientist. His clinical and research work concerns the [...]

The DSM-5 and Major Depression (Allan Horwitz, PhD)

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Depression has become the single most commonly treated mental disorder, amid claims that one out of ten Americans suffer from this disorder every year and [...]

The Aesthetic Brain (Anjan Chatterjee, MD, and Blake Gopnik, PhD)

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Anjan Chatterjee, MD, Professor of Neurology, Penn Center for Neuroscience & Society and author of the recently published The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to [...]

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