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Posted by Zack Lynch

For those of you unable to make the Brain Fitness Panel last week, a video of the entire 1.5 hour panel is available now on the web. If you are at all interested in the space, I recommend picking up a cup of tea and watching the whole thing. The panel answered many crucial questions regarding the growth, development and future of this emerging neurotech market. On a related note, one of the panel companies, Dakim, just announced the closing of a $10.6M Series C. Another good sign that this market is gaining traction.

Posted by Zack Lynch

Neuroethics, the journal that Adam Kolber edits, will be launched next month at the Pacific APA in Pasadena. The journal will provide free access to the full text of all articles published in 2008 and 2009, and most of the first issue is already available online. Adam also writes the Neuroethics and Law blog.

Update: Just got a note from Adam letting me know that the editor-in-chief of the Neuroethics Journal is Neil Levy. Neil is a guest blogger on the Neuroethics and Law blog. Adam is an associate editor of the Journal.

Posted by Zack Lynch

"The pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled." HBS

Posted by Zack Lynch

The NYTimes has a great neurofinance article today Craving the High That Risky Trading Can Bring that remarks on Jrme Kerviel, the rogue trader at Socit Gnrale, that recently lost $7 Billion. Jenny Anderson does a good job of interviewing the right people for the article including Stanford's Brian Knutson and MIT's Andrew Lo. Two characters I interview in my forthcoming book on the neurosociety.

Posted by Zack Lynch

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 that drew some of the most provocative dialogue of the meeting was the third, entitled, 'Neuroeconomies: markets, choice and the distribution of neurotechnologies.”..Lynch’s talk was followed by a lecture on the “the birth of neuroeconomy” by Dr Philippe Pignarre, who has often taken a critical approach to the commercial development of new technologies, and his talk thus offered a measured counterargument to the focus of Mr. Lynch. The talks in this session led to a productive and heated dialogue in the Q & A, with sociologists in the audience reflecting on the ways that both hype and hope are playing a productive role in fostering consumer expectations about the therapeutic benefit of new neurotechnologies."

Upcoming ENSN events are planned for 2008 and 2009:
1) "Our Brains, Our Selves?" Invitational Workshop co-hosted by the ENSN and the Department for the History and Philosophy of Science, Harvard University. May 1-3, 2008.
2)"ENSN Interdisciplinary Neuroschool" September 28-October 5, 2008. European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). Rome, Italy.
3)"Neurosocieties II: Second ENSN General Conference." Centro de Estudos Sociales, University of Coimbra, Portugal. April 2-4, 2009.

Also Germany just open up a Research Centre for Neurotechnology in Frankfurt/Main with funding totalling several million Euros over a period of five years.