 November 12, 2008
| Topic: |
Ethics of Brain Imaging Research |
| Presenter: |
Lisa T. Eyler, Ph.D., Assist. Professor, Depart. of Psychiatry, UC San Diego; Clinical Research Psychologist, VA San Diego |
| Location: |
SDSU Foundation: Sky Park |
| Discussion: |
Brain imaging is an increasingly popular method to explore the neural underpinnings of normal and pathological behavior. The use of this tool in healthy individuals has raised ethical issues about researchers' responsibilities for evaluation and communication of incidental clinical findings revealed through brain scans. We will discuss recommendations that have been put forth for dealing with these issues. Recently, brain imaging has also been used to explore how humans make ethical decisions. We will discuss some examples of this research and whether brain imaging helps us to understand ethical behavior in a useful way. |
| Readings: |
- Wolf SM et al. (2008). Managing incidental findings in human subjects research: analysis and
recommendations. J Law Med Ethics. 36(2): 219-48.
- Hsu M, Anen C, Quartz SR (2008). The right and the good: distributive justice and neural encoding of equity and efficiency. Science. 320: 1092-1095.
- Eyler LT, Olsen RK, Nayak GV, Mirzakhanian H, Brown GG, Jeste DV (2007). Brain response correlates of decisional capacity in schizophrenia: A preliminary fMRI study. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 19(2): 137-144.
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Note: For those Journal Club members at UCSD, readings will be available through electronic reserves in the UCSD Biomedical Library. Go to http://reserves.ucsd.edu, click "STUDENTS - Find your reserve materials here", select the "Pages by Instructor" tab, select instructor "Kalichman", and click "Search". On the Course Reserves page, click "SOM300", read and accept the copyright statement, open the Journal Club folder, and find the files in this month's file. For those not at UCSD, please e-mail us at ethics@ucsd.edu and we will send you a PDF attachment. |
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