November 14, 2008

Brain Science Confronts Ethical Challenges at New Group's First Meeting

By Richard Monastersky

Washington

With society growing increasingly nervous about some of the applications of brain science, 200 academic researchers, students, lawyers, and others gathered here on Thursday to chew on some of the knottier questions that neuroscience is raising, like whether to use drugs to enhance IQ or whether advances in brain studies have shattered the notion of free will.

The eclectic convocation, which continues today, is the first meeting of the Neuroethics Society, a group that recently

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