Neuroethics Seminar: Therapeutic Misconception in ALS
Channel: HMS Center for Bioethics
Date: 09/03/2016

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-- About this seminar -- 
Some subjects who participate in trials of novel therapies mistakenly believe that the trial is designed in a way to maximize benefit to the individual subjects—thus laboring under the Therapeutic Misconception. Patients with ALS have a uniformly fatal disease, and one might worry that ALS patients are even more prone to the therapeutic misconception. Our speakers will discuss the evidence for a therapeutic misconception in ALS trials, and consider more broadly how the therapeutic misconception should be addressed by investigators and institutional review boards.

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Scott Kim, MD, PhD
Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health

James D. Berry, MD, MPH
Unit Chief, ALS Multidisciplinary Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital

Spencer Hey, PhD, Research Fellow, Brigham and Women's Hospital Instructor, Center for Bioethics Harvard Medical School


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The Neuroethics Seminar Series is designed to explore a diverse range of subjects at the intersection of neuroscience and ethics. In a typical seminar, three expert discussants will come together to explore a topic. In the 90-minute seminar, at least 30 minutes are reserved for discussion and audience participation.

Learn more about the series and watch previous lectures:
bioethics.hms.harvard.edu/neuroethics-seminar-series

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-- Co-sponsors --
The International Neuroethics Society
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, HLS
Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior, MGH
Institute for the Neurosciences, BWH
Center for Brain Science, Harvard University
Department of Neurobiology, HMS

-- With funding from --
Mind Brain Behavior Interfaculty Initiative, Harvard University
The Harvard Brain Initiative Collaborative Seed Grant Program
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