The Moral Brain

Scientists don’t claim to know how people determine right from wrong. However, they can study how the brain responds when an individual judges another’s actions.

The Truth About Lies: The Science of Deception

Scientists want to understand the changes that take place in the brain when we deceive. What they find could one day have important moral and legal implications.

Welcome to the BrainFacts.org Blog

An introduction to the blog from Nick Spitzer, Editor-in-Chief of BrainFacts.org.

Group Think: The Science of the Social Brain

Social neuroscience is helping shed light on the powerful link between biology and behavior.

Neuroeconomics: A Window into Human Behavior

Understanding the drivers behind individual and group decision-making may lead to insights into the economy.

Dialogues Lecture: Robert Shiller and Neuroeconomics

Can neuroscience help explain financial crises? Economist Robert Shiller discusses the influence of human behavior on the economy and the impact of our decisions.

NIMH Grantee Hank Greely on Research Advances vs. Social Challenges

Advances in neuroscience research may bring tough questions.

The Ascent: A Brief History of the Brain

Modern neuroscience is the sum of countless discoveries. Meet a few scientists and learn their contributions in this video.

Ethical Science: Communication and Commercial Enterprise

Neuroethics will draw from the experience of bioethics in handling scientific communication with the media and responsible transfer of knowledge from basic science to profit-driven venture.

What is Neuroethics?

Scientists and ethicists are beginning to reflect on the implications of neuroscience research.

Neuroscience of Responsibility and Punishment

Neuroethics can help society think about how knowledge of the brain as the basis of behavior may affect our ideas about crime and punishment.

Neuroethics of Clinical Research and Treatment

New treatments and therapies raise important ethical questions. Special care must be taken in designing clinical experiments.

Making Neuroscience Fun

This website offers a collection of PowerPoint presentations (with scripts) designed for teaching students (pre-primary to higher primary) about the brain and the nervous system.

Brainy Acts

A collection of videos from around the Web for educators interested in neuroscience. Rated for age appropriateness and usefulness, the assortment includes patient stories, animations, and real microscope images.

Neuroeconomics: Money and the Brain

In good times and bad, people face important economic decisions. Scientists in a field called neuroeconomics study how the brain assesses economic information and weighs financial risks.

The Brain on Trial

A discussion of neuroscience and its increasing presence in the justice system.

The Brain on Trial

Three experts discuss how advances in neuroscience pose new challenges for the judicial system and the use of therapeutic solutions for reforming criminals.

Teens, Neuroscience, and Society

Adolescence is a time of significant changes for both the body and the brain. Conflicts with authority figures, mood swings, and other behavioral problems are often normal during the teen years, and scientists are starting to figure out why.

Neuroeducation

Neuroeducation is the collaboration between educators and neuroscientists. This field blends the specialties of neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, and education to improve teaching methods and curricula.

Neuroethics and Deep Brain Stimulation

While Research in brain science holds exciting prospects for the treatment of disease, our increasing ability to manipulate the brain poses grave questions both for scientists and for society at large. An emerging field called Neuroethics is connected with a broad array of issues that ask where do we draw the line on manipulating brain function? In this podcast, Dr. Judy Illes, Canada Research Chair in Neuroethics and Professor of Neurology at the University of British Columbia, offers some background on the neural maze of science and ethics.