Law and Policy of the Developing Brain: Neuroscience from Womb to Death
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Friday, February 10
UC Hastings College of the Law
Alumni Reception Center
200 McAllister Street
San Francisco, CA 94102 (Map)
Saturday, February 11
Stanford Law School
Room 190
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford CA 94305 (Map)
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About the event: This conference will examine developments in neuroscience and the implications for law and policy. The conference will begin Friday morning at UC Hastings with an introductory talk from Dr. Robert Sapolsky on the general themes of the two-day conference. Multidisciplinary panels and speakers over the two days of the conference will consider law and neuroscience issues as they arise throughout the human lifespan, beginning Friday morning with prenatal and infant brains, and ending Saturday afternoon with the neuroscience of aging and death.
About registration: This event is open to the public. Registration is complimentary, but required. Click here to RSVP.
Questions? For more information about this event, click here. If you have any questions, contact Andrea Frey at freya@uchastings.edu.
Sponsored by UC Hastings, the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium, and Stanford Law Center
AGENDA
Saturday's Agenda
8:45 – 9:00 Welcome
Hank Greely
9:00 – 9:30 Introduction to the Aging Population
Kenneth Smith – Stanford Center on Longevity
9:30 – 10:45 Panel 1: Neuroscience, Aging, and Decision-making
Sam McClure, Stanford
Barbara Strauch, Science Editor, New York Times
Rita Ghatak, Stanford Medical Center
10:45 – 11:00 Break
11:00- 12:15 Panel 2: Financial Fraud and the Elderly
Doug Shadel, AARP, Seattle
Stephen Vernon, Gilfix and La Poll Associates LLP
12:15 – 1:30 Lunch
12:45 – 1:30 Lunchtime Talk
Laura Carstensen (Stanford Center on Longevity)
1:45 – 3:00 Panel 3: Predicting Alzheimer Disease – The Science and its Implications
Mike Gilfix, Gilfix and La Poll Associates LLP
Hank Greely, Stanford Law School
Geoffrey Kerchner, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Stanford Medical School
Frank Longo, Chair of Neurology, Stanford Medical School
3:00 – 3:30 Concluding Remarks
Hank Greely
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