May 22, 2016 | News
Prof. Alberto Carrara, Coordinator of the Neurobioethics Research Group of Rome participated in the first Interdisciplinary Forum of Neuroethics at the Universidad Anáhuac in Mexico City, Mexico on May 21. The presentations were organized around the acronym NERDS, according to the Spanish names of the various disciplines. Talks thus explored the relationship between neurological research and Ethics, Esthetics, Religion, Law, and Society. The Clinical Bioethics and Neuroethics Research Group (BINCA) organized the two-day event.
Carrara’s PREZI presentation is available online here.
May 21, 2016 | News
The Coordinator of the Neurobioethics Research Group of Rome and Fellow of the UNESCO Chair Alberto Carrara participated in the Brainforum “Does the brain have a sex?” at Hadrian’s Temple in Rome on May 20. The event was dedicated to sexual difference and the brain. It explored the structural and functional differences between the male and female brain.
Numerous debates regarding the theme proliferate among scientists, academics, sociologists, psychologists, feminists, and other culture sharpers. Professor and Researcher at the Sagol School of Neuroscience at the Tel-Aviv University Daphna Joel opened the round table discussion with her introductory lecture. Joel drew from new developments in cerebral imaging in presenting her innovative “Mosaic Brain” approach.
A prestigious panel proceeded to discuss the legal, physiological, genetic, physiological aspects of neuroscientific findings that enrich our understanding of the factors that contribute to behavior.
It is possible to view the stimulating interdisciplinary event online here.
A full list of participants is found below.
May 10, 2016 | News
UNESCO Chair fellow Alberto Carrara delivered a talk on “Neurobioethics: bridge between bioethics, philosophy, and nature” during the Pontifical Faculty of Educational Sciences Auxilium day of study in Rome devoted to “Scientific and Pedagogical Knowledge: for the well-being of the person” on May 9, 2016.
Carrara recently published an updated version of his presentation in latest edition of the journal Studia Bioethica and can be read online here. His PREZI presentation is available here.
May 9, 2016 | News
The second issue of Studia Bioethica for 2016 has been published and is now available online here. The text is dedicated to the theme of “The Brain, Economics, and Memory: the human person in neurobioethical reflection.” Previous issues of the bioethical journal of the Regina Apostolorum Faculty of Bioethics can be found here.
Apr 24, 2016 | News
The Clinical Bioethics and Neuroethics Research Group (BINCA) of the Universidad Anáhuac México Norte held its 11th session on “Brain Death and Organ Transplant” on April 23, 2016. The new group is a sister project of the Neurobioethics Research Group based in Rome and led by Chair Fellow Alberto Carrara.
