Battling Blood in the Streets: How Can Neuroscience Promote Public Health and Support Public Policy to Prevent Community Violence? September 7, 2016 4:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Room 1010 Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWED BY: 2016 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Open House September 7, 2016 5:30 PM HLS Pub, Wasserstein…
By I. Glenn Cohen As reported by Science, today the NIH announced plans to lift a preemptive year long moratorium on funding chimera research – that which mixes human and animal cells, often at the embryonic stage. Here is a snippet from the Science article about the new proposed NIH process: According to two notices released today, NIH is…
By Robert Kinscherff I recently attended a presentation on Fetal Pain: An Update on the Science and Legal Implications, jointly sponsored by the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior (Massachusetts General Hospital) and the Petrie-Flom Center (Harvard Law School). Presenters were Amanda Pustilnik, JD (University of Maryland School of Law) and Maureen Strafford, MD (Tufts…
By Robert Kinscherff At first glance it seems like unequivocal good news: Juvenile crime rates are at approximately the same levels as the early 1970’s and high school graduation rates have risen from 65 percent four years ago to 82 percent in 2013-2014. But, a closer look suggests a different picture under the surface of…
By Robert Kinscherff It is fitting that I am writing this first blog of my time as Senior Fellow in Law and Applied Neuroscience as we transition through the change of seasons. It is a privilege to have the time afforded by this joint Fellowship between Harvard Law School (Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy,…
Join us for a panel discussion as part of the 2015 Annual Meeting of the International Neuroethics Society! October 15, 2015 Panel: 5:00 – 6:30 PM, Reception: 6:30 – 7:15 PM Northwestern University Hughes Auditorium 303 E. Superior Street, Chicago, IL Professional football has come under significant scrutiny in recent years, particularly because of concerns over…
From Troubled Teens to Tsarnaev: Promises and Perils of Adolescent Neuroscience and Law September 28, 2015, 4:00 – 5:30 PM Wasserstein Hall, Room 1015 Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA [Map] Followed by the Petrie-Flom Center’s 2015 Open House reception in the HLS Pub (more information below)!
Promises and Perils of Adolescent Neuroscience and Law September 28, 2015, 4:00 – 5:30 PM Wasserstein Hall, Room 1015 Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA [Map] Followed by the Petrie-Flom Center’s 2015 Open House reception in the HLS Pub (more information below)! Description: The neuroscience of adolescent brain development has had increasing…
By Amanda C. Pustilnik What should the future look like for brain-based pain measurement in the law? This is the question tackled by our concluding three contributors: Diane Hoffmann, Henry (“Hank”) T. Greely, and Frank Pasquale. Professors Hoffmann and Greely are among the founders of the fields of health law and law & biosciences. Both…
By Henry T. Greely The recent meeting at Harvard on neuroimaging, pain, and the law demonstrated powerfully that the offering of neuroimaging as evidence of pain, in court and in administrative hearings, is growing closer. The science for identifying a likely pattern of neuroimaging results strongly associated with the subjective sensation of pain keeps improving….
