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By Karen Herrera-Ferrá, Arleen Salles and Laura Cabrera Karen Herrera-Ferrá, MD, MA lives in Mexico City and founded the Mexican Association of Neuroethics . She has a Post-doctorate in Neuroethics ( Neuroethics Studies Program at the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics (PCCB) at Georgetown University ), a MA on Clinical Psychology, and an MD. She also has a Certificate on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and another one on History of Religions. She has a one-year fellowship on Psychosis and another on OCD. She is currently a PhD Candidate on Bioethics. On May 2016 she developed a national project to formally introduce and develop neuroethics in her country. The main focus of this project is to depict and include national leaders in mental health, interested in neuroethics, so to inform and divulge this discipline among scholars and society. She also works as a mental health clinician in a private hospital, lectures in different hospitals and Universities in Mexico and is an Affiliate

By Denis Larrivee  Denis Larrivee is a Visiting Scholar at the Neiswanger Bioethics Institute ,  Loyola University Chicago and a member of the International Neuroethics Society   communication committee. He also serves on the editorial board for the journal Neurology and Neurological Sciences , where he is the section head for neuroscience. He is currently the editor of a text on Brain Computer Interfacing and Brain Dynamics.  The reappearance in 2017 of the Ambassador Session at the International Neuroethics Soci-ety’s annual meeting underlines both the rapid upswing of global investment in neuroscience and the internationally perceived need for ethical deliberation about its interpretive significance, distinctive cultural manifestations, and evolution of complementary policy and juridical structures best serving global versus regional interests. The 2017 session juxtaposed the more mature organizational approaches of the American and European neuroethical programs against recent unde

By  Thomasine Kushner  *Editor's Note: Tomi Kushner is co-chair with Yves Agid for the Annual Neuroethics Network Conference in France. She had these reflections to offer.  The remainder of the posts this week will feature student reflections on various sessions in the conference. Enjoy! The 3rd Neuroethics Network conference took place, June 29-July 1, 2016 hosted by ICM ( Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière ), Paris’ renowned Brain and Spine Institute. This annual conference brings together researchers, scholars and clinicians in neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry, and law to foster dialogue and interdisciplinary collaboration with regard to the ethical issues generated by advances in brain science. A theme of the Neuroethics Network is that in order for neuroethics to be effective on an increasingly broader, more pluralized world stage, the field needs to “go global.” Contributing to a more international vision this year were delegates from: Argentina, Australia, C