Evaluating Chronic Pain in Neuroscience, Ethics, and Law

Evaluating Chronic Pain in Neuroscience, Ethics, and Law - Murat Aydede
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Videos from the event

  1. INTRODUCTION: Introduction
  2. SPEAKER: Murat Aydede, Professor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia
  3. SPEAKER: Tor Wager, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder
  4. SPEAKER: Amanda Pustilnik, Professor of Law, University of Maryland
  5. PANEL DISCUSSION: Panel Discussion

Event Information

October 29, 2018, Faculty House, Columbia University

The sources of chronic pain are multifaceted. Whether induced through injury, disease, or other causes, those who suffer from the persistence of chronic pain are often frustrated when their conditions cannot be captured through words or validated clinically. The last few years have seen a tremendous effort toward developing a brain-imaging–based model of pain. While brain imaging is widely considered to have the potential for diagnosis, prognostication, and prediction of treatment outcome in patients with chronic pain, in current practice, there are significant limitations in its reliability, detection, and correlation with other forms of evidence. This seminar brought together experts from different domains to discuss scientific, ethical, philosophical, and legal issues that relate to pain neuroimaging research.

Moderated by Federica Coppola, Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience, Columbia University, and Lan Li, Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience, Columbia University.