You are here:
Friday, February 22, 2019
12:30 Registration, Coffee & Tea
13:00 Welcome remarks and project presentation: “Psychiatric Neurosurgery – Ethical, Legal, and Societal Issues”
Sabine Müller
Clinical topics
13:30 Decision-making of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder for psychiatric neurosurgery
Merlin Bittlinger and Chris Bervoets
14:00 Deep brain stimulation for major depression
Thomas Schläpfer
14:30 Autism surgery and ethical implications
Roberto Martínez-Álvarez
15:00 Gamma Knife radiosurgery for obsessive-compulsive disorder
Steven Rasmussen
Legal Issues
16:00 Informed consent and free will in the context of deep brain stimulation
Marisa Groß
16:30 Ulysses contracts and their legal implications for deep brain stimulation patients
Annabel Joschko
17:00 The constitutional landscape of psychiatric neurosurgery
Tade Spranger
17:30 Neurosurgery for psychopaths – an ethical analysis
Lucie White
Saturday, February 23, 2019
Ethical and societal issues
09:00 Experimental deep brain stimulation for Alzheimer disease: scientific and ethical pitfalls of the exploratory research agenda
Merlin Bittlinger
09:30 Closed-loop DBS and its implications for autonomy and authenticity
Frédéric Gilbert
10:00 Ethical issues of expanding applications for deep brain stimulation: an interdisciplinary approach
Christian Ineichen
10:30 Cross-national investigations of media coverage and public reactions and attitudes about psychiatric neurosurgery
Judy Illes and Laura Cabrera
Recommendations
11:30 Recommendations for responsible research and practice in psychiatric neurosurgery
Sabine Müller
12:15 Panel and audience discussion about recommendations and implementation
Sabine Müller, Judy Illes, Tade Spranger, Merlin Bittlinger, and Roberto Martínez-Álvarez
13:00 End
Speakers
- Prof. Dr. Chris Bervoets, University of Leuven, Universitair Centrum voor obsessieve-compulsieve stoornissen, Leuven, Belgium
- Merlin Bittlinger, MA, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Department for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy CCM, Germany
- Dr. Laura Cabrera, Michigan State University, Center for Ethics & Humanities in the Life Sciences, USA
- Dr. Frédéric Gilbert, University of Washington, Department for Philosophy, USA, and University of Tasmania, Australia
- Marisa Groß, LL.B., University of Bonn, Department of Law, Germany
- Prof. Dr. Judy Illes, University of British Columbia, Neuroethics, Vancouver, Canada
- Dr. Christian Ineichen, Psychiatric & Uni¬versity Hospital Zurich + Institute of Biomedical Ethics & History of Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Annabel Joschko, Mag. Iur., University of Bonn, Department of Law, Germany
- Dr. Roberto Martínez-Álvarez, Hospital Ruber Internacional, Médico-Neurocirujano, Madrid, Spain
- PD Dr. Sabine Müller, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Department for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy CCM, Germany
- Prof. Dr. Steven Rasmussen, Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
- Prof. Dr. Thomas Schläpfer, University of Freiburg, Division of Interventional Biological Psychiatry, Germany
- Prof. Dr. Dr. Tade Spranger, University of Bonn, Department of Law, Germany
- Dr. Lucie White, University of Hannover, Department of Philosophy, Germany
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany) (01GP1621A + B), CIHR-INMHA (Canada) and National Institute of Health Carlos III (Spain)