Visible Solutions: How Neuroimaging Helps Law Re-envision Pain, Can Brain Imaging Be a Pain-O-Meter? from canada ethics committee Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 35 min 66 sec
✓ Published: 11-Jul-2015

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June 30,15 Can brain imaging be a “pain-o-meter” that tells courts when a person is in pain?Can fMRI help us discern whether intractable chronic pain is “all in your head” or all in the brain – or will it require us to reconsider that distinction? Leading neuroscientists, legal scholars, and bioethicists debated standards and limits on how the law can use brain science to get smarter about a subject that touches everyone.nnPanel 1, Can Brain Imaging Be a Pain-O-Meter?:nn- Karen D. Da