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Date & Place:16 March 2010 - The Parliament
By MARTIN BANKS - A top academic says that the health burden facing the EU will increase considerably as Europe's population gets older.
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Date & Place:24 February 2010 - Popular Science article
By CLAY DILLOW - Neurologists love picking the brain, but getting in there can be both difficult and dangerous, and once inside it's tough to make the brain do exactly what you want.
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Date & Place:14 January 2010 - Newsweek article news
By SHARON BEGLEY - The promise-and the hype-of changing your DNA through behavior.
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Date & Place:29 December 2009 - Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies article
By ANDREW MAYNARD - What can we expect as we enter the second decade of the twenty first century? What are the emerging technology trends that are going to be hitting the headlines over the next te ...
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Date & Place:29 November 2009 - Times Online comment
By DOMINIC LAWSON - It is remarkable how frequently we underestimate the most powerful force in the known universe: a mother's love. The story of Rom Houben is further proof, if proof were needed.
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Date & Place:27 November 2009 - Time article
By ADI NARAYAN -At first it sounded like science fiction, curing genetic diseases by giving people new genes.
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Date & Place:19 Novemeber 2009 - Georgia Straight Health Feature
By GAIL JOHNSON - Judy Illes has a dilemma. What happens when someone who has agreed to participate in a medical study undergoes a brain scan during which the researcher happens to discover an anoma ...
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Date & Place:19 Novemeber 2009 - Stanford Report
By INGFEI CHEN - Will advances in neuroscience make the justice system more accurate and unbiased? Or could brain-based testing wrongly condemn some and trample the civil liberties of others? The ne ...
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Date & Place:17 November 2009 - Times Online news
By ANJANA AHUJA - The sentence of one killer in Italy has been reduced as he possesses a 'violent gene'. Can DNA be used as a defence?
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Date & Place:09 November 2009 - The Guardian article
By MARCUS MUNAFO and JONATHAN FLINT - Don't believe everything you read about genes and disease in prestigious journals like Science and Nature, say Marcus Munafò and Jonathan Flint. A lot of it is ...
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Date & Place:02 November 2009 - Scientific American feature
By LONE FRANK - Advances in neuroscience are changing the way some companies position their products, giving birth to the new field of neuromarketing.
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Date & Place:28 October 2009 - Nature news feature
By ERIK VANCE - Sean Mackey inflicts pain on people in the hope of learning how to relieve it. Erik Vance gets on the receiving end.
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Date & Place:22 October 2009 - Forbes news
By REBECCA RUIZ - Should you get a brain MRI even if you have no symptoms of disease?
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Date & Place:20 October 2009 - Psychology Today plus2sd blog
By GREGORY S. BERNS - Should the "adolescent brain" be a mitigating factor when sentencing juveniles?
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Date & Place:08 October 2009 - Nature Opinion
Pauline C. Ng, Sarah S. Murray, Samuel Levy and J. Craig Venter find differences in results from two direct-to-consumer genetics-testing companies. They therefore give nine recommendations to improv ...
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Date & Place:OCTOBER 2009 - Nature Reviews Neurology NEWS AND VIEWS
A survey conducted in Canada examined the prevalence of perceived genetic discrimination against patients with Huntington disease.
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Date & Place:02 October 2009 - Newsweek blog Human Condition
By KATE DAILEY - The rapidly expanding field of neuroimaging brings new meaning to the adage "A picture says a thousand words." Newly released, The Human Brain Book combines incredible brain imag ...
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Date & Place:29 September 2009 - Scientific American Observations
By GARY STIX _ The revolution in neuroscience is often characterized as a revolution in new imaging technology.
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Date & Place:20 September 2009 - Scientific American news
By KATHERINE HARMON - Brain-damaged patients who appear to have lost signs of conscious awareness might still be able to create new memories, showing signs of new neural networks and potential for p ...
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Date & Place:01 SEPTEMBER 2009 - NEW SCIENTIST OPINION
By NIC FLEMING - Robotics expert Noel Sharkey used to be a believer in artificial intelligence. So why does he now think that AI is a dangerous myth that could lead to a dystopian future of unintell ...
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Date & Place:31 AUGUST 2009 - REUTERS BLOG FAITHWORLD
By TOM HENEGHAN - Several comments on this and other blogs express surprise that the Reuters blog on religion, faith and ethics should be interested in neuroscience.
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Date & Place:25 AUGUST 2009 - FORBES ARTICLE
By MICHAEL L. ANDERSON - How Diffusion Tensor Imaging lets us delve deeper into the workings of the cortex.
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Date & Place:18 AUGUST 2009 - H+ MAGAZINE INTERVIEW
By SURFDADDY ORCA - An Interview with Zack Lynch, author of 'The Neuro Revolution'.
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Date & Place:14 AUGUST 2009 - BRAIN BLOGGER ARTICLE
By JOSEPH ZENI - Imagine having the ability to turn on the television and change the channel without using a remote control. Or better yet, imagine navigating the internet and sending emails using j ...
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Date & Place:13 AUGUST 2009 - NATURE NEWS
By ELIE DOLGIN - Bioethicists argue for stricter rules at genetic repositories.
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Date & Place:09 August 2009 - Reuters Blog FaithWorld
By TOM HENEGHAN - Knowing what not to report is just as important for journalists as knowing what to write.
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Date & Place:03 AUGUST 2009 - LOS ANGELES TIMES NEWS
By DEVON SCHUYLER - A good way to speed up the process of finding an effective antidepressant would be to learn sooner whether a particular drug was going to work.
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Date & Place:01 AUGUST 2009 - A bid report
By DONATO RAMANI - Aim of this report is to evaluate the public perception of health in relation to brain science at a European level.
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Date & Place:23 JULY 2009 - BBC NEWS
By JONATHAN FILDES - A detailed, functional artificial human brain can be built within the next 10 years, a leading scientist has claimed.
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Date & Place:22 July 2009 - JAMA Editorial
By RONALD C. PETERSEN; JOHN Q. TROJANOWSKI - Research in Alzheimer disease (AD) is rapidly moving toward the point of the earliest possible identification of the underlying disease processes. These ...
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Date & Place:21 JULY 2009 - TIME NEWS
By ADI NARAYAN - It would seem that being honest is an absolute, undebatable state. A person is either truthful or he's not. Right?
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Date & Place:16 JULY 2009 - NANOWERK NEWS
By MICHAEL BERGER - A recently released study commissioned by the European Parliament attempts to bridge the gap between visions on human enhancement (HE) and the relevant technoscientific developme ...
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Date & Place:10 July 2009 - Science letters
By BARBARA J. SAHAKIAN and SHARON MOREIN-ZAMIR - With the advancement of neurosciences in recent years, there is a growing need to ensure that its students are educated in applied neuroethics as par ...
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Date & Place:09 July 2009 - Nature Horizons
By ILINA SINGH & NIKOLAS ROSE - The use of biomarkers to predict human behaviour and psychiatric disorders raises social and ethical issues, which must be resolved by collaborative efforts.
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Date & Place:09 JULY 2009 - WIRED NEWS
By HADLEY LEGGETT - Hackers who commandeer your computer are bad enough. Now scientists worry that someday, they'll try to take over your brain.
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Date & Place:08 June 2009 - Forbes opinion
By JOHN ZOGBY - If you could have computer chips wired into your brain, would you?
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Date & Place:14 May 2009 - New Scientist article
By ANDY COGHLAN - WE ARE on the brink of technological breakthroughs that could augment our mental powers beyond recognition. It will soon be possible to boost human brainpower with electronic "plug ...
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Date & Place:16 April 2009 - Nature
The latest issue of Nature has a free "Technology Feature" on magnetic resonance imaging: Nathan Blow looks at the technology latest developments, focuses on the new contrast agents for MRI and prov ...
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Date & Place:27 February 2009 - Science Letters
By MARTHA J. FARAH, NANCEY MURPHY - Science and religion have had a long relationship, by turns collegial and adversarial.
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Date & Place:26 February 2009 - Nature Commentary
By JENS CLAUSEN - Brain-implantable devices have a promising future. Key safety issues must be resolved, but the ethics of this new technology present few totally new challenges, says Jens Clausen. ...
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Date & Place:13 January 2009 - Nature news
By ALISON ABBOTT - Social neuroscientists criticized for exaggerating links between brain activity and emotions.
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Date & Place:07 November 2008 - Science Editorial
By STORY LANDIS and THOMAS R. INSEL - This issue of Science features a special section (see page 891) that focuses on an emerging area of neurogenetics--the effort to link genomics and behavior.
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Date & Place:10 October 2008 - EMBO reports viewpoints
By HRVOJKA BOSNJAK, KRESIMIR PAVELIC & SANDRA KRALJEVIC - The sequencing of the human genome was an enormous achievement in more than one sense as both the annotated sequence and the bioinformatics ...
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Date & Place:05 September 2008 - Embo reports viewpoint
By REBECCA CARVER, RAGNAR WALDAHL & JARLE BREIVIK - Enabling the public to understand scientific concepts and advances, and the issues they raise, is an increasingly important challenge for scientis ...
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Date & Place:13 June 2008 - Science News Focus
By GREG MILLER - As the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging has exploded, some researchers say the field could use a dose of rigor. Will new experimental approaches come to the rescue?
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Date & Place:09 May 2008 - Science News Focus
By GREG MILLER - Neurobiologists, philosophers, psychologists, and legal scholars are probing the nature of human morality using a variety of experimental techniques and moral challenges
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Date & Place:01 March 2008 - Nature Neuroscience Editorial
The increase in research carried out by private companies raises concerns about ethical standards for human subjects.
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Date & Place:18 January 2008 - Science News Focus
By JENNIFER COUZIN - A small California company is the first to venture into psychiatric gene testing. But is the science ready?
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