Neuroscience and Public Policy Seminar Series
2007-2008 | 2008-2009 | 2009-2010 | 2010-2011 | 2011-2012 | 2012-2013Fall Semester 2011
September 9, 2011
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Department of Philosophy and Keenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University
Do you Want to Die? Using Brain Scans to Detect Consciousness in Patients Diagnosed with Persistent Vegetative State [Poster]
October 14, 2011
Owen Jones, Vanderbilt University Law School and Director, MacArthur Law and Neuroscience Project
Your Brain on Punishment [Poster]
November 9, 2011
Laurence Steinberg, Department of Psychology, Temple University
A Social Neuroscience Perspective on Adolescent Risk-Taking [Poster]
December 9, 2011
Walter Koroshetz, Deputy Director, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Global Burden of Nervous System Disorders [Poster]
Spring Semester 2012
February 10, 2012
Kent Kiehl, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of New Mexico; President, Mind Research Network
The Criminal Psychopath Magnetized: Implications of Brain Imaging for Psychology, Medicine, Law and Policy [Poster]
March 16, 2012
Steven Hyman, Former Director, NIMH and Provost Harvard University, Director Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, The Broad Institute, MIT and Harvard University
The Abandonment of the Mentally Ill by the Pharmaceutical Industry [Poster]
April 20, 2012
Rita Colwell, Professor Emerita, University of Mary Maryland, Former Director, National Science Foundation, U.S. Science Envoy
Oceans, Climate, and Human Health: Scientific Understanding of the Direct Relationship Between Human Disease and the Environment