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How neuroscience both informs and reflects society.

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Getting People Talking: Promoting Public Engagement with Neuroethics

An interview with Civic Science Fellow Claire Weichselbaum on developing new approaches for public engagement around the ethical and societal impacts of neuroscience.

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Building Trust, Breaking Down Barriers to Co-Creating the Future of Neuroscience

Neuroscience is not just for scientists! At a panel during the 2023 AAAS annual meeting, researchers presented several successful pilot projects that offer models for drawing non-scientists into the conversation about how science is created, applied, and given priority.

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Inside the Brain: Knowable Series Launch

How does our sense of self persist throughout life, when our bodies, and especially our brains, look and work very differently at various stages of our lives, from infancy to late adulthood? Register for the free, virtual series Inside the Brain: A Lifetime of Change.

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Misinformation Epidemic Raises Stakes for Solutions

Can cognitive-training tools equip people to resist fake news? Are top-down measures necessary? Neuroscientists help sort out what could work.

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Can Social Prescriptions Improve Cognitive and Mental Health?

Social connectedness gains ground as a formal strategy for reducing health burdens.

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Survey Finds Brain Health is a Top Priority for Americans

Executive Overview

An executive overview of the Jan 2023 Dana Foundation / Research!America survey of American's views on the brain and brain health.

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Dana Foundation Awards 11 Planning Grants for Dana Centers for Neuroscience & Society

The Dana Foundation is excited to announce the 11 US-based academic institutions awarded planning grants for potential future Dana Centers for Neuroscience & Society.

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Translating Big Data Models to Stem Suicide

Organizations are seeing positive results from big data-fueled suicide prediction models, but it takes work—and time—to put them into clinical practice.

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Inviting Multi-Disciplinary Voices to the Neurotechnology Conversation

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.

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Could Music Therapy Ease the World’s Dementia Crisis?

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.