Symposium Introduction: Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Deep Phenotyping
This digital symposium explores the ethical, legal, and social implications of advances in deep phenotyping in psychiatry research.

This digital symposium explores the ethical, legal, and social implications of advances in deep phenotyping in psychiatry research.

Event Description Advances in neuroimaging, genetics, and mobile health apps are creating unprecedented opportunities to detect subtle brain changes that may predict the onset of Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia. But how much trust should we have in these new technologies, who will have access to them, and how should the law respond…

The lack of diversity among research participants can have significant consequences on generalizability and distribution of treatments.

The field has a frustrating tendency to make lofty claims about psychedelics that stray from the realities and limitations of the data.

As a scholar of religion who cares deeply about this psychedelic renaissance, I offer two points of caution from the perspective of my field.

Amid a fractured political landscape, a pandemic, and a reckoning with the country’s racist past, psychedelics may offer some hope for healing.

While city-wide decriminalization efforts make psilocybin a “low priority” for law enforcement, state and federal agencies provide no such guarantees.

A focus on furthering neurodiversity could allow the psychedelics decriminalization movement to gain broader public support.
