About Us The Neuromedia Corner aims to share news and stimulate an effective dialogue about the state of the art of neuroscience technologies, their risks and benefits and the associated ethical and social issues.

The Neuromedia Corner is an idea of the bid - Brains in Dialogue project. [read more]

08 March 2010 - bid webcast

Genetic tests on the internet lack of information.

Leonard Hennen, sociologist at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, explains us why direct to consumer genetic tests should be handled with care.
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04 March 2010 - New York Times Well blog

Parkinson’s Limits Ability to Read Emotions

By TARA PARKER-POPE - Imagine talking to another person and realizing you couldn’t tell whether he was angry, sad, fearful or disgusted.
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03 March 2010 - NewScientist news

The brain scanner that feels your pain

By JESSICA HAMZELOU - PAIN intensity, the most personal of experiences, can now be measured from the outside, say researchers who scanned the brains of young men who were fresh out of the operating theatre.
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24 February 2010 - bid webcast

Ethical and Legal Implications of Genetic Testing for Neurodegenerative Diseases

Judit Sandor, bioethicist and Director of the Centre for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine at the Central European University, Budapest (Hungary), presents us the main social issues related to genetic testing for brain diseases. 
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