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It comes as no surprise that pulling all-nighters comes with the territory of being an undergraduate. It is the price that most of my peers and I have paid at one time or another for trying to get more work completed before a fast-approaching deadline. The sleepless nights ramp up during finals week while the use of caffeine and energy drinks fuels our self-induced, sleep- deprived zombie states.                                                 We all do it: study zombies                                        (Credit: zombiesandtoys.blogspot.com)                                   Usually, our energy drinks do not purport to have cognitive-enhancing effects. However the drink Nawgan ...

Are you interested in the ethical and social implications of neuroscience?  The Neuroethics Program is offering competitive, stipended fellowships in neuroethics. This exciting opportunity is open to graduate students in any discipline. Important Dates: Information Session: 5/30/2012 Center for Ethics Room 150 @ 130pm Deadline for Applications: 6/15/2012  Duration of Fellowship: 8/30/2012-8/30/2013

You won't want to miss the Second Annual Neuroscience and Ethics Award!  We are proud to announce this year's award will go to Dr. Steven Hyman. T HE N EUROETHICS P ROGRAM OF THE C ENTER FOR E THICS Y ERKES N ATIONAL P RIMATE R ESEARCH C ENTER T HE N EUROSCIENCE I NITIATIVE PRESENT THE Second Annual Neuroscience and Ethics Award TO Steven Hyman, M.D. Former Provost of Harvard and Director of NIMH SPEAKING ON : Addiction as a Window on Volitional Control Date: April, 9, 2012 Time: 4pm (followed by a reception) Location:  Woodruff Health Sciences Administration Building  Auditorium Dr. Steven Hyman is a renowned leader in neuroscience and  psychiatry, and has championed ethical inquiry in those fields. Dr.  Hyman is former director of the National Institute of Mental  Health and former Harvard University provost, where he is currently the Distinguished Service Professor of Stem Cell and  Regenerative Biology and Professor of Neurobiology. He is ...

NEUROETHICS INTERNSHIP OPENINGS Are you interested in the ethical and social implications of neuroscience? The Emory Neuroethics Program invites you to apply for a Neuroethics Internship. We are looking for up to two self-motivated, creative, and organized individuals who are interested in topics that fall at the intersection of neuroscience, society, and ethics. The Neuroethics Program is a community of scholars at the Emory University Center for Ethics who explore the ethical and social implications of neuroscience and neurotechnology. You can be part of that exciting team. The Center for Ethics at Emory is an interdisciplinary hub that collaborates with every school at Emory University as well as local universities and the private and public community. The Center for Ethics houses The American Journal for Bioethics Neuroscience, the premier journal in Neuroethics. The director of the Center for Ethics, Dr. Paul Root Wolpe, is one of the founders of the field of Neuroethics as well ...

This year, Emory's First Year Neuroscience Graduate Students were asked to write a blog post for the Neuroethics portion of their Neuroscience and Communications Course. These posts will be delivered in 4 weekly installments, each week featuring a commentary on a different neuroethics piece. This week, we feature blogs covering the following article: Schizophrenia: The making of a troubled mind Nature 468, 154-156 (2010) Want to cite this post? Rommelfanger, K. (2011). First Installment: First Year, Neuroscience Students at Emory Write About the Neuroethics of Schizophrenia and the Prodrome. The Neuroethics Blog. Retrieved on , from http://www.theneuroethicsblog.com/2011/12/first-year-neuroscience-students-at.html

As part of the opening 9/11 events at Emory there was an excellent panel discussion on memorialization moderated by the Center for Ethics, Dr. Edward Queen and led by ILA’s Dr. Angelika Bammer , and Psychology’s Dr. Marshall Duke , as well as his brother, Mike Duke, a survivor of the World Trade Center attack. After Mike Duke shared the powerful story of his experience on 9/11, Dr. Marshall Duke said that, according to his studies, the sharing of 9/11 narratives have helped people expand their range of possibility, and perhaps the possibility or faith that good things can happen even after tragedy. Sharing “oscillating narratives,” as Dr. Duke put it, wherein both positive and negative narratives inform family histories, were healthier overall for an individual’s ability to cope in life. Dr. Bammer expressed concern that in the post-9/11 world we have gained a reinforcement and cultivation of fear, an ever-growing powerful feeling of an “us vs. them” mentality. One student from the a...

Are you interested in the ethical and social implications of neuroscience and neurotechnology? The Neuroethics Program of the Emory Center for Ethics is proud to announce the Neuroethics Scholars Program. The program is open to graduate students in any discipline who want to develop their interes ts at the intersection of neuroscience and ethics. Deadline for applications: October 15, 2011 Sponsored by the Emory Center for Ethics and its Neuroethics Program , and funded by the Emory Neurosciences Initiative, the Neuroethics Scholars Program is an unprecedented opportunity for Emory graduate students to become active in the national Neuroethics community. Graduate students are invited to propose collaborative or independent projects of interest to them, which could include areas such as: Developing Neuroethics curricula and co-teaching Neuroethics topics in both academic and public arenas Developing and executing interdisciplinary empiric...