Neuroscience News

The Advisory Committee to the

Check out the findings of the ACD working group on the

On January 15, 2014, the President signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2014 (P.L. 113-73.).

When the President launched the BRAIN Initiative in April 2013, he charged his Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues with exploring the ethical, legal, and societal implications raised by both this research initiative and other recent advances in neuroscience t

Last week, President Obama announced his budget proposal to double the Federal investment in the BRAIN Initiative from about $100 million in Fy 2014 to approximately $200 million in FY 2015.

On May 14, the Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues issued its first set of recommendations in response to President Obama’s charge to “identify proactively a set of core ethical standards – both to guide neuroscience research and to address some of the ethical dilemmas that may be raised by the application of neuroscience research findings.”  The specific topic of the report is the integration of ethics into neuroscience research across the life of a research endeavor.

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