Cutting Edge Developments in Neuroscience and Law

Il Neuroscience and Law Center della Fordham University School of Law di New York ha organizzato un evento dal titolo “Cutting Edge Developments in Neuroscience and Law” che si terrà martedì 25 febbraio, tra le ore 8:30 e le ore 17.30, presso lo Skadden Conference Center della Fordham Law School, a New York (150 West 62nd Street).

La giornata si aprirà con i saluti e gli interventi introduttivi di Matthew Diller, J.D. (Dean and Paul Fuller Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law) e di Deborah W. Denno, Ph.D., J.D. (Arthur A. McGivney Professor of Law, Founding Director, Neuroscience and Law Center, Fordham University School of Law).

A seguire, i relatori Martha J. Farah, Ph.D. (Walter H. Annenberg Professor in Natural Sciences; Director, Center for Neuroscience & Society, University of Pennsylvania), Paul W. Glimcher, Ph.D. (Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology; Professor, Department of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine), Yasmin L. Hurd, Ph.D. (Ward-Coleman Chair of Translational Neuroscience; Director, Addiction Institute of Mount Sinai; Professor, Departments of Psychiatry, Neuroscience and Pharmacological Sciences; Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai); Adrian Raine, D.Phil. (Richard Perry University Professor; Departments of Criminology, Psychiatry, and Psychology; University of Pennsylvania) prenderanno parte a un dialogo sul tema “Ethics and the Brain: How Environment Affects Behavior and Brain Development” (moderatore: Katja C. Langenbucher, Professor, Private Law, Corporate and Financial Law; Goethe University & SciencesPo)

Dopo la pausa, nell’ambito di una seconda sessione intitolate “The Future of Neuroscience and its Moral and Ethical Implications”, prenderanno la parola i relatori Peter A. Alces, J.D. (Rita Anne Rollins Professor of Law; William & Mary Law School), Damian M. Lyons, Ph.D. (Professor, Department of Computer and Information Sciences; Founder and Director, Robotics and Computer Vision Laboratory; Fordham University), Thomas Oxley, M.D., Ph.D. (CEO and Founder, Synchron, Inc.), Elizabeth A. Phelps, Ph.D. (Pershing Square Professor of Human Neuroscience; Department of Psychology; Harvard University) (moderatore: Evangeline Shih, J.D., Partner; Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP)

Nel pomeriggio, i lavori riprenderanno con le relazioni di Adam M. Brickman, Ph.D. (Professor of Neuropsychology; Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain; Department of Neurology; Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons; Columbia University), Natalie Hiromi Brito, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor; Department of Applied Psychology; New York University), Helen S. Mayberg, M.D. (Director, Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutics; Professor, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Psychiatry and Neuroscience; Mount Sinai Professor of Neurotherapeutics; Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai), Donald W. Pfaff, Ph.D. (Professor and Head of Laboratory; Neurobiology and Behavior; The Rockefeller University) sul tema “The Ethics of Trauma, Aging, and Brain Irregularities” (moderatore: Kenneth H. Sonnenfeld, Ph.D., J.D., Partner, King & Spalding, LLP).

L’ultima sessione, prima degli interventi conslusivi, sarà incentrata sul tema “The Law and Ethics of Neuroscientific Development” e vedrà la partecipazione dei relatori Joseph J. Fins, M.D., M.A.C.P., F.R.C.P. (The E. William Davis, Jr., M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics; Chief, Division of Medical Ethics and Professor of Medicine; Co-Director, Consortium for the Advanced Study of Brain Injury; Weill Cornell Medical College; Solomon Center Distinguished Scholar in Medicine, Bioethics and the Law; Yale Law School ), Victoria Phillips, Ph.D. (Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Assistant Professor; New York University—Langone Medical Center), Jed S. Rakoff, J.D. (Judge; United States District Court for the Southern District of New York), Ingrid Walker-Descartes, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., F.A.A.P. (Assistant Professor-SUNY Downstate School of Medicine; Vice Chair of Education-Department of Pediatrics; Program Director – Pediatrics Residency Training Program; Fellowship Director – Child Abuse Fellowship Training Program; Clinical Director of Child Maltreatment Services; Maimonides Children’s Hospital of Brooklyn) (moderatore: Courtney Cox, D.Phil, J.D.; Associate Professor; Fordham University School of Law).

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