Judy Illes
Canadian neuroscientist
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Illes' research focuses on the ethical, legal, social and policy challenges specifically at the intersection of the neurosciences and biomedical ethics. This includes studies on advanced neurotechnologies in basic and clinical research, regenerative medicine, dementia, addiction, and the commercialization of cognitive neuroscience. She also leads a program of research and outreach devoted to improving the literacy of neuroscience and engaging stakeholders. She has also popularized the concept of neurorealism along with Eric Racine and Ofek Bar-llan.
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Illes is a pioneer of the field of neuroethics through which she has made contributions to ethical, legal, social and policy challenges at the intersection of the brain sciences and biomedical ethics. Among her many international commitments, she is Immediate Past Chair of the International Brain Initiative, special Ethics Advisor to the European EuroBioImaging Consortium, an inaugural member of the Neuroethics Working Group of the European Academy of Neurology and a member of the Ethics Law and Humanities Committee of the American Academy of Neurology. She has served in many leadership roles in Canada and abroad, and as an expert for UNESCO, the OECD, the World Health Organization, and Amnesty International, among others. Neuroscience Communication, the ninth volume in her book series Developments in Neuroethics and Bioethics (Elsevier) that spans topics in pain, neurolaw, neuroarchitecture and crosscultural neuroscience, is now in press, and volume 10, Ethics, the Environment and the Exposome, is in preparation.
Books
- The Strategic Grant-seeker: A Guide To Conceptualizing Fundable Research in the Brain and Behavioral Sciences (1999)
- Neuroethics: Defining the issues in theory, practice, and policy (2005)
- Addiction Neuroethics: The Ethics of Addiction Neuroscience Research and Treatment (2011)
- Ethical Issues in Behavioral Neuroscience (2015)
- Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics (2013)
- Neuroethics: Anticipating the Future (2017)
- Developments in Neuroethics and Bioethics (Pain - 2018; Global Mental Health - 2019; Do it Yourself Neurotechnologies - 2020)