/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ The field of neurotechnology, the focus of this blog, encompasses advances in brain science (neurons), information technology (bits) and bioengineering (genes). Up for discussion and analysis: the political, economic, ethical, and social forces that will shape the future of what will be one of the most important and fascinating stories of the coming decades. en-us zack@neuroinsights.com 2008-11-28T15:08:11-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2008/11/28/global_neurosecurity_discussions_needed.php Jonathan Moreno writes another insightful piece, Intelligence on the Brain which discusses the need for a new dialogue on neuroresearch and national security.... 73631@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Neurosociety 2008-11-28T15:08:11-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2008/11/06/o_neurocaster.php O, The Oprah Magazine, has an article written by Tim Jarvis in the mindwise section this month titled, The Brain Age. The article explores how "cutting-edge neuroscience has escaped from the lab and is suddenly showing up everywhere, changing the... 73607@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Neurosociety 2008-11-06T14:38:42-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2008/10/28/manuscript_sent_to_japan.php Where do I start? It's been an amazing journey, but the book I've been working on for the past eight years is finally off the type setter at St. Martin's Press. Moreover, this morning I sent the manuscript off to... 73598@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Neurosociety 2008-10-28T15:53:28-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2008/08/14/neurowarfare_futures_report_released.php Back in March of 2003, I blogged here about neurowarfare and how the latest national intelligence reports were completely missing the boat on neurowar. It took a few years, but after Jonathan Moreno wrote Mind Wars, the US defense community... 73497@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Neurosociety 2008-08-14T10:42:25-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2008/06/17/_jill_bolte_taylors_stroke_of_insight_a_must_see.php 73375@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Neurosociety 2008-06-17T11:14:10-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2008/06/10/the_great_stem_cell_dilemma.php In the "The Stem Cell Dilemma: Beacons of Hope or Harbingers of Doom?", co-authors Leo Furcht and William Hoffman tell the story of stem cell science and explains the latest developments and how research will give new meaning to human... 73357@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Neurosociety 2008-06-10T11:54:08-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2008/04/11/neural_environmentalists_and_the_great_forgetting.php David Brooks in today's NYTimes posits The Great Forgetting. A pretty hilarious, but insightful piece on personal and societal memory lapses. "In the era of an aging population, memory is the new sex...Society is now riven between the memory haves... 73225@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Neurosociety 2008-04-11T12:23:40-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2008/02/01/european_neurosociety_developments.php A six page conference summary from the European Neuroscience and Society Network conference I spoke in London last November has been published here. Here is a snippet (needless to say it was quite the thought provoking conference): "The session... 73079@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Neurosociety 2008-02-01T16:05:51-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2007/12/12/neurorealism_rising.php The 7th Year in Ideas from the New York Times highlights "neurorealism". Matthew Hutson writes: You’ve seen the headlines: This Is Your Brain on Politics. Or God. Or Super Bowl Ads. And they’re always accompanied by pictures of brains dotted... 72937@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Neurosociety 2007-12-12T19:38:54-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2007/11/08/neurosocieties_the_rise_and_impact_of_the_new_brain_sciences.php I am off to London to speak at the first Neurosocieties conference sponsored by the European Neuroscience and Society Network (ENSN) to be held at the London School of Economics in the Regent's College Conference Center. It's hard to... 72829@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Neurosociety 2007-11-08T16:47:24-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2007/08/13/neuromatrix_a_new_video_game_that_teaches_kids_about_the_brain.php Neuromatrix is an NIH-funded video game developed to teach children about their brains. In the game, you play a secret agent infiltrating a top-secret neuroscience research facility. Your mission: to track down and root out the Nanobots that have invaded... 72594@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Neurosociety 2007-08-13T18:00:57-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2007/08/06/the_neurojournalism_mill_separating_wheat_from_chaff.php The Neuro-Journalism Mill is a relatively new blog dedicated to sifting the wheat from the chaff in popular media reporting about news related to the brain. In Wheat, they highlight articles and news stories that make a superior effort... 72562@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Neurosociety 2007-08-06T15:41:08-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2007/05/31/cool_neurotainment_video_game_systems_emerging.php It was only a matter of time that the $28 billion video game industry latched on to neurosensing technologies and tied them to futuristic video games. Emotiv Systems has developed a new interface for human computer interaction. Project Epoc is... 72362@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Neurosociety 2007-05-31T14:26:41-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2007/02/16/il_domani_e_neurotech_intervista_la_stampa.php Here is a three page interview published today in the weekly Italian news magazine "Lo Specchio", a supplement of the major daily national newspaper "La Stampa". Download file. Here are some of the questions translated with links deep into my... 72018@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Neurosociety 2007-02-16T11:47:01-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2006/12/28/video_of_my_talk_perception_shifting_in_a_neurosociety_ethical_and_societal_implications.php Here is a video link to a 30 minute presentation I gave earlier this year at a conference on the Geoethical Implications of Neuronanotechnology hosted by the Terasem Movement at Martine Rothblatt's Vermont retreat. The title of my talk is... 71094@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Neurosociety 2006-12-28T11:40:15-05:00