Exploring the ethical, legal, and social implications of advances in psychiatric research and treatment
This site is under development, and will be launched in summer 2020 to serve as a resource for examination of the ethical, social, and legal implications of deep phenotyping research.
In the meantime, we invite you to review recent talks at the McLean Institute for Technology in Psychiatry (ITP) Technology in Psychiatry Summit.
Two researchers discussed the potential for innovations in the use of artificial intelligence and digital phenotyping to advance social justice causes at a Harvard Law School panel Wednesday.
The panel, titled “Computational Justice,” was the latest installment of the Project on Law and Applied Neuroscience, an event series by the Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.
The goal of the panel was to help legal professionals “improve their paved route to justice” by using neuroscience technology to tailor approaches to individual cases, according to moderator Francis X. Shen, the executive director of the Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior.
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