FMRI Journal Club: Ethical issues in neuroimaging

Ethical Issues in Neuroimaging

We will meet Tuesdays at 2 pm in 58-261A of the NPI

Students are expected to come to class prepared to present and discuss the contents of the articles.

Week 1

3/30 Led by Katherine Narr:

• Neurology. 2008 Jan 29;70(5):384-90. Practical approaches to incidental findings in brain imaging research. Illes J, Kirschen MP, Edwards E, Bandettini P, Cho MK, Ford PJ, Glover GH, Kulynych J, Macklin R, Michael DB, Wolf SM, Grabowski T, Seto B.

• Morris Z, Whiteley WN, Longstreth WT Jr, Weber F, Lee YC, Tsushima Y, Alphs H, Ladd SC, Warlow C, Wardlaw JM, Al-Shahi Salman R. Incidental findings on brain magnetic resonance imaging: systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ. 2009 Aug 17;339:b3016. doi: 10.1136/bmj.b3016

Week 2

4/6 Led by Elizabeth Sowell

• Lu LH, Dapretto M, O'Hare ED, Kan E, McCourt ST, Thompson PM, Toga AW, Bookheimer SY, Sowell ER (2009) Relationships between Brain Activation and Brain Structure in Normally Developing Children. Cereb Cortex.

Week 3 - No Meeting

4/13

There will be no meeting this week. We will continue on 4/20.

Week 4

4/20 No Lie MRI (this may take more than one session)

A number of groups have reported reliable detection of true and false using fMRI, usually with the aid of machine learning/pattern analysis schemes.

We will discuss a variety of issues here

• Does this actually work?
• Does a Polygraph work?
• Who should profit?
• What does this do to our rights to privacy?

Readings:

• How to beat an fMRI lie detector
• Don't Even Think About Lying
• Detection of Deception with fMRI: Are we there yet?
• Functional Neuroimaging of Belief, Disbelief, and Uncertainty
• Classifying spatial patterns of brain activity with machine learning methods: application to lie detection

Week 5

5/4 Presented by Leo Moore

Week 6

4/27 Presented by Sarah Madsen

Week 7

5/4 Led By Adriana Galvan

• tbd

Week 8

5/11 Presented by Katy Cross

Week 9

5/18 [skin@ucla.edu Presented by SKin (sorry, I do not now the correct name)]

Week 10

5/25

Week 11

6/1

Week 12

6/8 Led by Jack van Horn

• tbd