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Mu-ming Poo Gives EDAB Special Lecture on Neuroethics at FENS 2020

“Non-human primate models for neurobiology and biomedicine" - Mu-ming Poo, Ph.D. (Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology), gives the EDAB Lecture on Neuroethics during the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Virtual Forum 2020.

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What is ‘Well’?

Report from FENS Forum of Neuroscience

Are we using the right standards when judging whether a psychiatric intervention, such as deep brain stimulation, is working, asked neurologist Helen Mayberg during the EDAB Special Lecture

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Thinking Outside the Box About Memory

Report from FENS Forum of Neuroscience

Researcher Eleanor Maguire argues that long-term storage of autobiographical memories is done by the vmPFC, part of the prefrontal cortex, while the hippocampus plays a subordinate but critical role.

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Neuroscience Outreach Champions Honored at the FENS Forum 2018 in Berlin

Roland Pochet, Laura López-Mascaraque, and Université Côte d’Azur were awarded prestigious prizes for their contribution to advancing public education and awareness about the progress and promise of brain research.

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Neuroscience Outreach Champions Honored at the FENS Forum 2018 in Berlin

Dr. Roland Pochet (Belgium), Dr. Laura López-Mascaraque (Spain), and Université Côte d'Azur (France) will be awarded prestigious prizes for their contribution to advancing public education and awareness about the progress and promise of brain research.

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Decoding the Patterns in Sleep

Report from FENS Forum of Neuroscience

Researchers at the 10th FENS Forum of Neuroscience in Copenhagen suggest that differences in sleep waves could reflect intelligence or disease states.

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Will Neuroscience and Law Collide?

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In his neuroethics lecture at the recent FENS forum, Steven Hyman described how what scientists have learned about conditions like schizophrenia and addiction suggests that they may strip a person’s agency, or “free will.” But data so far don’t yet reach the bar that law demands.

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Dana/EDAB FENS Outreach Champions Announced

The European Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives presented this year’s winners of the Outreach Champion Awards as part of the FENS Forum of Neuroscience in Denmark.

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A Bird’s Eye View of Sensory Perception

Report from FENS Forum of Neuroscience

Q&A with Carl Petersen ahead of his European Dana Alliance for the Brain (EDAB) / Max Cowan Special Lecture at the FENS Forum of Neuroscience in Copenhagen

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