Brains in dialogue on brain imaging, a bid workshop
17 March 2009 - 18 March 2009
Austria
Coloured blobs that seem to light up in our brain, revealing intentions, thoughts, truth or lies, health or sickness. Brain imaging technologies are helpful to investigate the structure and function of brain areas, and are loading newspapers with iconic images, promising something once unthinkable: reading the secrets of our mind. But can brain imaging really read our thoughts? And what are the potential applications in medicine? Which are the social, legal and ethical implications? Scientists, clinicians, service users, science communicators, experts of legal, social and ethical issues from all Europe will discuss this and much more during the workshop brains in dialogue on brain imaging, at Clare College, Cambridge, UK, on 17-18 March 2009.
The workshop, organised within the brains in dialogue (bid) project - supported by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme and coordinated by the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Advanced Studies of SISSA, Trieste - comprises five sessions. In the first session, Scope and limits of brain imaging in psychiatric conditions, the discussion will focus on the state of the art of these technologies in understanding and treating psychiatric conditions. Service users and clinicians will express their point of view in Brain imaging in your life. Session Brain imaging and the law will deal with the potential applications of brain imaging technologies in the legal system. The fourth session Social and ethical issues in brain imaging will focus on the ethical and social implications of the latest applications of these technologies and issues like the concepts of identity, free will, responsibility they raise. During the fifth session attendees will participate to facilitated group discussions on specific topics related to the previous sessions. The meeting will finish with a Café Scientifique at the Michaelhouse Centre Cambridge with Stefano Cappa, Belinda Lennox and Stephan Schleim moderated by Marjan Slob. The Café Scientifique is open to the general public and is part of the Cambridge Science Festival and the Brain Awareness Week.Registration for the workshop is now closed.
For enquiries please contact us: bidinfo@neuromedia.eu
The workshop, organised within the brains in dialogue (bid) project - supported by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme and coordinated by the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Advanced Studies of SISSA, Trieste - comprises five sessions. In the first session, Scope and limits of brain imaging in psychiatric conditions, the discussion will focus on the state of the art of these technologies in understanding and treating psychiatric conditions. Service users and clinicians will express their point of view in Brain imaging in your life. Session Brain imaging and the law will deal with the potential applications of brain imaging technologies in the legal system. The fourth session Social and ethical issues in brain imaging will focus on the ethical and social implications of the latest applications of these technologies and issues like the concepts of identity, free will, responsibility they raise. During the fifth session attendees will participate to facilitated group discussions on specific topics related to the previous sessions. The meeting will finish with a Café Scientifique at the Michaelhouse Centre Cambridge with Stefano Cappa, Belinda Lennox and Stephan Schleim moderated by Marjan Slob. The Café Scientifique is open to the general public and is part of the Cambridge Science Festival and the Brain Awareness Week.Registration for the workshop is now closed.
For enquiries please contact us: bidinfo@neuromedia.eu