Neuroscience & Society

Three years after a social issues roundtable about the ethical and societal issues raised by neural-digital interfaces, one research team shares what they’ve learned.

A new wave of research aims to move beyond anecdotal evidence. If it proves significantly beneficial and easily “dispensable,” the savings in terms of well-being and of monetary costs would be immense.

In the rush to cash in on cannabis, some vulnerable populations—including people in marginalized groups and all children—may pay a steep price.

The more we learn about how to change our brains and those of others, the more we need to think about what those changes mean to us, to our communities, and to our world.

Scientists can now grow living human brain tissue in lab dishes and in animals, creating organoids, neural transplants, and chimeras. While these models will help us better understand the brain, they also raise thorny ethical questions.

INS is a group of scholars, scientists, clinicians and other professionals who share an interest in the social, legal, ethical and policy implications of advances in neuroscience.

Ethics and Society is part of the Human Brain Project’s research core.

Recent Cases in Law and Neuroscience, curated by the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior and the Shen Neurolaw Lab with support from the Dana Foundation

Informing responsible applications of neuroscience in research, the clinic, and society as well as engages and activates their community in neuroethics discourse.

The Research Network on Law and Neuroscience addresses a focused set of closely-related problems at the intersection of neuroscience and criminal justice.

Interdisciplinary research group dedicated to tackling the ethical, legal, policy and social implications of frontier technological developments in the neurosciences