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Neuroscience and the Problem of Dual Use

Difficulty level
Beginner
Speaker
Duration
40:11
Topic

This lecture aims to give an introduction and overview of the dual-use challenge as it applies to neuroscience today and will apply in coming decades.

Topics covered in this lesson
  • Introduction and overview of the dual-use challenge as it applies to neuroscience
  • How the threat of chemical and biological weapons developed in the last century
  • How benignly-intended civil science was taken up in the production of chemical and biological weapons that attacked the nervous system in the last century
  • How the States Parties to the BTWC and the CWC have responded to this possible misuse of neuroscience
  • Problem of awareness-raising amongst neuroscientists