Buiding Better Brains:
The Ethics of Cognitive Enhancement
 Paul Root Wolpe - leading Neuroethicist, Co-editor of the American Journal of Bioethics, President of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities and Senior Fellow at the Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania
March 8, 2007 (7:00PM)
Halifax Infirmary, QE II Royal Bank Theatre, 1796 Summer St.
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Come early. Seating is limited
Some sample articles by Paul Root Wolpe:
1: Wolpe PR. Reasons scientists avoid thinking about ethics. Cell. 2006 Jun 16;125(6):1023-5.PMID: 16777590
2: Lo B, Albert MS, Hyman S, Parens E, Wolpe PR, Mobley W. Ethics and the practice of brain science. Cerebrum. 2002 Summer;4(3):64-6. No abstract available. PMID: 16619416
3: Farah MJ, Wolpe PR. Monitoring and manipulating brain function: new neuroscience technologies and their ethical implications. Hastings Cent Rep. 2004 May-Jun;34(3):35-45. Review. PMID: 15281725
4: Farah MJ, Illes J, Cook-Deegan R, Gardner H, Kandel E, King P, Parens E, Sahakian B, Wolpe PR. Neurocognitive enhancement: what can we do and what should we do? Nat Rev Neurosci. 2004 May;5(5):421-5. PMID: 15100724
5: Wolpe PR. Treatment, enhancement, and the ethics of neurotherapeutics.Brain Cogn. 2002 Dec;50(3):387-95. PMID: 12480485
6: Wolpe PR. The neuroscience revolution. Hastings Cent Rep. 2002 Jul-Aug;32(4):8.PMID: 12362529
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