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I attended the excellent Neuroscience, Law, and Ethics of Lie Detection Technologies Symposium  in May, and as a consequence, I have spent the last month trying to answer questions I hadn’t even thought to ask before: Who owns the thoughts in my head? Could I be compelled to submit them? Can someone else decide that keeping my ideas to myself is a violation of the law or a threat to my country? If they force me to surrender them, do I lose ownership? So this week, I thought I would share some of the things I learned as I tried to find out answers. You can actually  buy this online . I am considering getting it printed on a hat. Two preliminary points: first, I want specify what I mean when I say “compelled” to undergo a brain scan. It seems, at least it seemed to me while sitting in the audience, that Americans are pretty afraid of having someone else read their minds without their permission, or, worse, being forced to have their minds read. This extends even to a si...

Did you miss this awesome event ? Don't despair! We have the videos for all of our neuroethics friends who couldn't be there. You Can’t Handle the Truth! On May 25, 2012, the Neuroscience Program, Center for Ethics Neuroethics Program, and the Scholars Program in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Research (SPINR) combined forces to hold a symposium on the intersection of neuroscience and law pertaining to the use of fMRI and other lie detection technologies in the courtroom. Dr. Hank Greely , director of the Center for Law and Biosciences at Stanford Law School, opened the symposium with a talk entitled, "fMRI-based lie detection: The Gap Between Lab and Life." Dr. Daniel Langleben , a professor of Psychiatry at University of Pennsylvania and pioneer of using fMRI to detect lies gave a talk entitled, "Brain Imaging and Deception: Research and Practice." Dr. Steven Laken , founder, president, and CEO of Cephos; a company that markets the use ...

Last Friday, Emory held its third annual Neuroethics symposium , focusing this year on the use of fMRI for lie detection and the acceptance of fMRI data as evidence in the courtroom. The symposium featured talks from Stanford law professor Hank Greely , University of Pennsylvania psychiatrist Daniel Langleben , and the CEO of Cephos , Dr. Steven Laken . I wasn’t surprised to learn we’d invited the first two speakers: Greely wrote the seminal articles on law and neuroscience, and Langleben pioneered fMRI studies of lying. It did surprise me to see Laken on the list. His company Cephos is one of the few that have successfully marketed fMRI-based lie detection for the commercial sector. I kind of thought—maybe hoped—that an audience composed largely of neuroscientists would eat him alive. Dr. Steven Laken, CEO of Cephos I'd read about Cephos when w e'd discussed fMRI and lie detection at the Neuroethics journal club , and what I'd read had made me skeptical. Laken's crede...

Neuroscience, Law, and Ethics of Lie Detection Technologies   May 25th School of Medicine Auditorium from 1-5pm. You Can’t Handle the Truth! The Neuroscience Program, Center for Ethics Neuroethics Program, and the Scholars Program in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Research (SPINR) are combining forces to hold a symposium on the intersection of neuroscience and law pertaining to the use of fMRI and other lie detection technologies in the courtroom. Drs. Hank Greely , director of the Center for Law and Biosciences at Stanford Law School, Daniel Langleben , a professor of Psychiatry at University of Pennsylvania and pioneer of using fMRI to detect lies, and Steven Laken , founder, president, and CEO of Cephos; a company that markets the use of fMRI for courtroom lie detection will be providing their expertise through a series of talks. Following the talks, Emory’s Carolyn Meltzer , Chair of the Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, will join the speakers answering qu...