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“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.” This is the famous question posed by Juliet in the immortalized balcony scene.  And while Shakespeare could afford to question the idea, patients with mental disorders, scientists who study the disorders, and the insurance agents that fund the aid have not yet found a way to do without names. In a recent interview, Steven Hyman puts this sentiment in his own words: “Classifications are, in the end, cognitive schemata that we impose on data in order to organize and manipulate it. Many disorders are better represented for scientific purposes, but also for setting rational thresholds for treatments as continuous quantitative dimensions.” Image of Dr. Hyman: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/12/hyman_release/ Coinciding with the 2nd Annual Neuroethics Award , several staff members of Emory’s Center for Ethics interviewed Dr. Steven Hyman , the esteemed Director of the Broad Institute S...

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 ...