Addiction Neuroethics

Dr. Illes, trailblazing neuroethicist, is Professor of Neurology at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Distinguished University Scholar, UBC Distinguished Scholar in Neuroethics, and Director of Neuroethics Canada. She holds appointments in UBC’s School of Population and Public Health, and in Journalism, and in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, in Seattle. She is a pioneer of the field of neuroethics through which she has made groundbreaking contributions to cross-cultural ethical, legal, social and policy challenges at the intersection of the brain sciences and biomedical ethics. Dr. Illes received her PhD in Hearing and Speech Sciences and in Neuropsychology from Stanford University in 1987, and turned to ethics in 2000, 25 years ago. She was among the first to use high density EEG recordings and pattern recognition to understand language processing in neurodegenerative disease, and was part of the revolution that functional MRI introduced. Together with others whose vision for ethics for neuroscience led from within the neurosciences, Dr. Illes has not only placed neuroethics on the world map of , but has tirelessly trained the generation that leads it today, and already those who will lead it tomorrow.Dr. Illes has published 11 edited volumes, including three handbooks in neuroethics and as Editor in Chief of the series of volumes for Developments in Neuroethics and Bioethics. She has led major research projects and hundreds of publications on invasive and noninvasive technologies, fixed and portable imaging systems such as MRI, biologics, pharmaceuticals, and devices, open science and intellectual property protections. In 2023, she released an award-winning film on neurotechnology ethics and decision-making for children with drug resistant epilepsy. Dr. Illes has also contributed significantly to the Canadian landscape in understanding crosscultural perspectives on brain and mind, including those of Indigenous People. She has received countless awards and recognitions for her empirical work and her mentoring alike. Dr. Illes places a particular emphasis on issues of ethics in neuroscience with attention to biomedicine, innovations that seek to alleviate the burden of psychiatric and neurologic disease, including spinal cord injury, both expected and unexpected incidental findings, holism, human rights and health disparities. With this open and broad perspective, she capably leads the seven-nation International Brain Initiative dedicated to global neuroscience that is inclusive and politically free. Dr. Illes was awarded the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest recognition of its citizens, in 2017.

• 1. Brain Imaging in Addiction2. Molecular Neuroscience and Genetics3. Treating Opioid Dependence with Opioids4. Addiction Neuroscience and Tobacco Control5. Emerging Neurobiological Treatments of Addiction6. Technical, Ethical and Social Issues in the Bioprediction of Addiction Liability and Treatment Response7. Autonomy, Responsibility and the Oscillation of Preference8. Consent and Coercion in Addiction Treatment9. Toward a Lay Descriptive Account of Identity in Addiction Neuroethics10. The Impact of Changes in Neuroscience and Research Ethics on the Intellectual History of Addiction Research11. The Diction of Addiction at the Intersection of Law and Neuroscience12. Social Epistemology13. Population Approaches to Alcohol, Tobacco and Drugs14. Legal Regulation of Addictive Substances and Addiction15. Investment and Vested Interests in Neuroscience Research of Addiction16. Private and Public Approaches to Addiction Treatment