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A Lawyer, a Philosopher, and Two Neurologists Walk Into a Bar…

April 6, 2021
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In this episode we discuss ethical considerations around brain-computer interfaces. Our guests are Tim Brown, Leigh Hochberg, Sydney Cash, and Amanda Pustilnik. A central theme in the discussions will be how neuroethics differs from traditional medical ethics and bioethics, and what we can draw from other fields and experiences to prepare for a world where BCI is more prevalent and more powerful.

– Matt Angle, CEO, Paradromics

00:15 | Guest Introductions

01:00 | Innately-Held Unproven Moral Beliefs
02:14 | Pain Program at MGH Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior
02:27 | Dr. Brown‘s Agency and Brain Machine Interfaces NIH Research
02:48 | Center for Neurotechnology
03:46 | Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
04:24 | Dr. Hochberg and Braingate
05:10 | Dr. Cash’s Cortical Physiology Lab

06:31 | Neuroethics: A Field of Its Own
10:52 | Happy Pills in 80s and 90s America
11:13 | Micromarketing
12:29 | Braingate BCI
14:47 | Bizarre Brain-Implant Experiment Sought to “Cure” Homosexuality

16:57 | Device vs Pharmacological Brain Therapies
24:10 | DBS for Essential Tremor

21:01 | When Patients and Clinicians Don’t See Eye-to-Eye
21:19 | Vanessa Tolosa and Mavato Engineering
33:38 | Lane v. Candura
36:18 | Kendra’s Law

41:11 | Researchers’ Burden in Equitable BCI Dissemination
41:26 | Against Mandatory Neurointerventions
41:36 | Another Perspective on Mandatory Neurointerventions
41:56 | Barbaric Treatment of Alan Turing
43:11 | Vikash Gilja at UC San Diego
45:07 | NIH BRAIN Initiative Neuroethics Working Group

51:05 | Data and Privacy in a BCI World
51:10 | Chethan Pandarinath at Emory University
53:22 | Observe, Imagine, Attempt
59:34 | Health Rhythms
59:50 | Neosensory
1:03:10 | Neurotechnology and Mood
1:05:10 | Global Brain Data Foundation

1:06:04 | Legal Brain Data Protections, or Lack Thereof
1:07:30 | What does the fifth amendment protect?
1:08:11 | Schmerber v. California, 384 U.S. 757 (1966)
1:08:58 | fNIRS for detection of Cannabis Intoxication
1:10:24 | Rochin v. California, 342 U.S. 165 (1952)
1:10:53 | Winston v. Lee, 470 U.S. 753 (1985)
1:10:39 | Kyllo v. United States, 533 U.S. 27 (2001)
1:13:16 | The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008

1:22:20 | Should BCI Eradicate Disability

1:35:36 | Balancing Near-Term Utility and Long-Term Harms

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