Work of Recent Fellows and Visiting Scholars

2009 Visiting Scholar
Daniel Hall-Flavin, MD
“Neuroscience and implications for psychiatric nosology”

2009 Visiting Scholar
Guillermo Palchik
“Brain-mind and emergence: On formal causality of conscious process”

2009 Visiting Scholar
Neha Amin, MD
“The fallacy of disclosure”

2008 Visiting Scholar
Colin Higgins
“The serotonin 5-HT3 receptor: Structure, functions and implications for pharmacotherapeutics”

2008 Visiting Scholar
Brian Wermcrantz
“Systems’ complexity in brain and emergent properties of mind: Merleau-Ponty redux”

2008 Visiting Scholar
Jolie Hoppe
“Use of propranolol and novel beta-blockers to mitigate PTSD in military personnel”

2008 Visiting Scholar
Liana Stec
“Involuntary psychiatric commitment: Ethical, legal and practical considerations”

2008 Visiting Scholar
Katie Lee
“Role of transcendence in bridging science and religion”

2008   Visiting Scholar
Roland Benedikter, PhD, DPhil
“Toward a neuroethics of meaning: Society and cultural implications of brain science”

2008    Visiting Scholar
Lindsay Moore
Williams College, MA, USA
“Neuroscience as a directing influence on educational policy and guidelines”

2008    Visiting Scholar
W. Adams Janes
Williams College, MA, USA
“Pharmacologic and technologic mitigation of post-traumatic memory and affect: Treatment, enhancement, ethics and responsibilities”

2007    Visiting Scholar
Anne Benvenuti, Ph.D.
University of California Los Angeles, CA, USA
“Toward an integration of the neural and the phenomenal in transcendent experiences”

2007    Visiting Scholar
Jill Kaspar
Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, USA
“Assessment of the objective and subjective dimensions of chronic pain: A mixed methods’ empirical, and philosophical study”

2007    Visiting Scholar
Josh Lindgren
Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, USA
“Pain, suffering and a Heideggerian notion of the person as event: Implications for the moral obligations of medicine”

2007    Visiting Scholar
Katia Braga
Sao Paolo, Brazil
“Comparative analysis of the history and philosophical basis of medical ethics in Brazil and the United States”

2006    Master’s thesis Committee:
Gabrielle Hill
Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
“Physiological bases for examples of interpersonal healing in the New Testament”
           
2006    Visiting Scholar
Richard Cox, Ph.D., M.D, D.Min.
Duke University, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
“Toward a consilience of neuroscience and education in a genomic world”

2006    Visiting Scholar
Hans Werner Ingensiep, Ph.D., D.Phil.
University of Essen and Luebeck, Germany
“The concept of the ‘human vegetable’and its implications for medical philosophy,  ethics and practice”
           
2006    Visiting Scholar
Joan Engebretson, Dr.PH
University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston, TX, USA
“Philosophical premises and ethical dimensions of cultural negotiation in the clinical encounter.”

2006    Visiting Scholar
Laura Specker
Williams College, Williamstown, MA, USA
“The neurocentric basis for categorical determination(s) of death: implications for neuroethics”

2006    Visiting Scholar
Joshua Sussman-Goldberg
Williams College, Williamstown, MA, USA
“Self and identity: neural foundations of biological and psychological models”

2006   Visiting Scholar
Sheila Lee
Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, USA
“The basis of diagnosis in pain medicine and psychiatry: problems and potential”

2006    Visiting Scholar
Peter Moskovitz, MD
George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
“Toward a neurobiological theory of suffering”