News, Resources, and Events Tagged "Mental Health"
Mental health, human rights, and legal capacity
In September, 2021, our edited volume Mental Health, Human Rights and Legal Capacity was published. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to engage with evolving debates related to legal capacity in…
Some Big Health Care Policy Changes Are Hiding In The Federal Spending Package
Congress is set to pass a $1.4 trillion spending package this week, which President Trump has said he'll sign. The legislation includes policy changes and funding increases that public health…
California Kaiser Mental Health Workers Launch Strike: Problems 'Keep Getting Worse'
More than 4,000 Kaiser Permanente mental health professionals in California launched a five-day strike on Monday at Kaiser facilities across the state. Psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, addiction specialists and others…
Computational Justice: How Artificial Intelligence and Digital Phenotyping Can Advance Social Good
Couldn't join us for the event? Check out some of the panelists' slide presentations below! And read a write-up of the event in the Harvard Crimson! Description The future…
Young people are poisoning themselves at alarming rates with over-the-counter drugs: There’s been a dramatic uptick in self-poisonings, particularly among girls and young women. There are ways to help.
[...] researchers say there aren’t great guidelines around how families should deal with keeping kids away from over-the-counter drugs or prescriptions that belong to other family members. “We…
On Life and Death in Rikers with Dr. Homer Venters
“The closing of Rikers is absolutely necessary. It's not sufficient to transform the criminal justice system in New York City to become more humane, but it's necessary.…
Inequity in Mental Health Care Access
This panel discussed the many local and national hurdles to mental health care access and equity. How do the barriers to mental health care impact people of different backgrounds and…
Diseases of Despair: The Role of Policy and Law
Description Anne Case and Angus Deaton shocked the world with their 2015 report that noted an increase in all-cause mortality among middle-aged white non-Hispanic men and women in the United States.…
Dementia and Democracy: America's Aging Judges and Politicians
Couldn't join us for the event? Check out some of the panelists' slide presentations below! Description Our judiciary and our elected officials are getting old. Five of the nine…
Bioethics Instructor or Assistant Professor, Division of Medical Ethics and Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYULMC
The Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (https://med.nyu.edu/child-adolescent-psychiatry/) at NYU Langone Medical Center and the Division of Medical Ethics in the Department of Population Health…
Fifth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review
Couldn't make it to the event? Check out some of the speakers' slides as well as the Health Affairs blog symposium! Description The Fifth Annual Health Law Year in…
What’s Confusing Us About Mental Health Parity
The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) has been law since 2008. MHPAEA provided that health plans could not limit mental health or substance use disorder benefits in a…
Half A Life: Legal and Policy Implications of Releasing Youth Incarcerated for Murder
Couldn't attend the event? Check out the speakers' slide presentations below! Description Youth convicted of murder ordinarily serve decades in prison before they complete a sentence or are paroled.…
Health Care after the Election
Looking for more on this topic now that the election has been decided? Check out our 5th Annual Health Law Year in P/Review on January 23, 2017. At this full-day event,…
Workshop on Pretrial Justice: What Works and Why
In September 2016, the Federal Judicial Center hosted a workshop for federal judges and law enforcement officials on issues relating to pretrial diversionary courts, exploring the question of "What Works and…
The Ethical Duty to Know: The Tragic Case of Facilitated Communication for Autism
Event Description Our speakers will review and discuss the history of a technique called Facilitated Communication, purportedly used to communicate with individuals with severe autism, developmental delay, or brain injuries.…
The Neuroethics of Biomarkers: What the Development of Bioprediction Means for Moral Responsibility, Justice, and the Nature of Mental Disorder
About the Book: Neuroscientists are mining nucleic acids, blood, saliva, and brain images in hopes of uncovering biomarkers that could help estimate risk of brain disorders like psychosis and dementia;…
Prizing Insurance: Prescription Drug Insurance as Innovation Incentive,: New Article from Academic Fellow Rachel E. Sachs
Abstract: A problem perennially facing scholars of both intellectual property and health law is the need to incentivize appropriately the development of new pharmaceuticals. Although physicians have an arsenal of…
Deception in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Psychogenic Non-epileptic Seizures
Event Description Neurologists who treat epilepsy face substantial difficulty distinguishing "true" seizures caused by abnormal electrical discharges from seizures that are caused by psychological factors (psychogenic nonepileptic seizures, or PNES).…
Euthanasia in Belgium: The Most Recent Legal Developments and Policy Challenges
A lecture by Sigrid Sterckx, Professor of Ethics and Political and Social Philosophy, Ghent University, Belgium; End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Ghent University, Belgium; Bioethics Institute Ghent,…
Moral Bioprediction, Bioenhancement, and the Law: A Lecture by Julian Savulescu
Description Increasingly, knowledge from biology and neuroscience allows us to identify biological states that are predictive but not determinative of human behavior in certain situations. These are called biomarkers of…
Scholars Discuss Role of Neuroscience in Youth Criminal Justice: Summary of Project on Law & Applied Neuroscience Panel on the Neuroscience of Teen Sentencing
Check out the Harvard Crimson's summary of our first event of the year, "From Trouble Teens to Tsarnaev: Promises and Perils of Adolescent Neuroscience and the Law." This event…
From Troubled Teens to Tsarnaev: Promises and Perils of Adolescent Neuroscience and Law
Read the Harvard Crimson's summary of the event! Description The neuroscience of adolescent brain development has had increasing impact on American jurisprudence. The U.S. Supreme Court relied on…
At the Frontier: The Ethics of Innovative Surgery: A Neuroethics Seminar Series Event
All modern surgical techniques were once new, so the ethics of surgical innovation is not a new topic. But as our understanding of the brain advances, so does our ability…
2015 Annual Conference: Law, Religion, and Health in America
Join the conversation on Twitter! @PetrieFlom #lawreligionhealth And check out many of the speakers' slide presentations below! Conference Description Religion and medicine have historically gone hand in hand, but increasingly…
ReSourcing Big Data: A Symposium and Collaboration Opportunity
March 23: Symposium 9:00am-5:00pm Joseph B. Martin Conference Center Harvard Medical School Extant data is an inexhaustible resource that is not yet very well understood and is underutilized. The focus…
A Dialogue on Agency, Responsibility, and the Brain: with Stephen Morse
Couldn't join us? Watch the full event online! Professor Stephen J. Morse, JD, PhD, former MacArthur Foundation Law & Neuroscience Project, discussed how – or whether – new knowledge…
Joining Forces: A Story of Science and Religion in Rural Ghana: A lecture by Student Fellow Lauren Taylor
How do science and religion interact in the delivery of mental health care in one region of Ghana? Lauren Taylor will guide a discussion about the value and limits of …
Senior Fellow for Law & Neuroscience Amanda Pustilnik Guest Lecturing in HLS Seminar
As part of her work with the Petrie-Flom Center and Center for Law Brain and Behavior at MGH's Project on Law and Applied Neuroscience, Senior Fellow Amanda C. Pustilnik…
Health Law Workshop: Thomas McGuire
Presentation Download the Presentation Topic Paper: Do "Reverse Payment" Settlements of Brand-Generic Patent Disputes in the Pharmaceutical Industry Constitute an Anticompetitive Pay for Delay? About the Presenter Thomas G. McGuire,…
2014 Annual Conference: Behavioral Economics, Law, and Health Policy
Couldn't join us in person at Harvard Law School? Join the conversation on Twitter using #BELHP2014! We also liveblogged the full event at Bill of Health throughout the conference…
NEW Joint "Project on Law and Applied Neuroscience" for 2014-2016
Official Press Release Wednesday, April 16, 2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The MGH Center for Law, Brain and Behavior and Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center announce joint “Project on…
Evaluating the Revised Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)
Video of this event is now available online! The DSM is the reference used by clinicians, researchers, and insurers to diagnose and classify mental disorders, with the intent to provide…
Ethics and Ontology in Deep Brain Stimulation
Rapid advancements in the fields of neurology and neuroscience over the past decade have enabled unprecedented progress toward the development of brain-modulating technologies and therapeutics. Central to these advancements are…
Defining mental illnesses: can values and objectivity get along?
Abstract Background The creation of each edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of psychiatry has proven enormously controversial. The current effort to revise the ‘bible’ of…
Facilitating Offender Re-entry to Reduce Recidivism: Federal Judicial Center Workshop
This Federal Judicial Center (FJC) workshop focused on facilitating offender re-entry to reduce recidivism, a major priority for Attorney General Eric Holder in his review of federal sentencing and corrections…