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Experiments in anticipation: Learning from Responsible Research and Innovation in the Human Brain Project Open
Foresight is central to facilitating Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) for future and emerging technology. Foresight enables anticipatory action that can help shape upstream development pathways in socially desirable ways and build…
Deconstructing Psychedelic Phenomenology: A Thematic Analysis of Discrete Phases of the Psychedelic Experience Open
The phenomenology of psychedelic experiences has been a long‐standing point of interest to researchers. However, internal experience has been relatively relegated, with much work done on the clinical outcomes of psychedelic therapies. Our …
5E Mental Health? Notes on an emerging style of thought Open
A new style of thought is emerging in debates around psychiatry and mental health, which I term ‘5E Mental Health.’ This goes beyond the well-known and much-criticized ‘biopsychosocial’ approach, and entails a fundamental challenge to the …
Against Posthumanism: Notes towards an Ethopolitics of Personhood Open
Are we humans destined to become ‘posthuman’? In this paper, we question the claims of posthumanism, accepting some of its broader insights whilst proposing a more empirically and ethically appropriate ‘vitalist’ response. We argue that de…
How Does Precarious Employment Affect Mental Health? A Scoping Review and Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Evidence from Western Economies Open
This article offers a scoping review and thematic synthesis of qualitative research on the relationship between precarious employment and mental health. Systematic searches of primary qualitative research in western economies, focused on i…
Niche Sociality: Approaching Adversity in Everyday Life Open
How should sociologists understand the everyday lives of those living in adversity, coping with the experience of structural violence? In this article, focusing on the urban experience, we suggest a perspective on ‘everyday life’ that can …
Opinion on Trust and Transparency in Artificial Intelligence - Ethics&Society, The Human Brain Project Open
The Ethics and Society Subproject has developed this Opinion in order to clarify lessons the Human Brain Project (HBP) can draw from the current discussion of artificial intelligence, in particular the social and ethical aspects of AI, and…
Opinion on 'Responsible Dual Use' Political, Security, Intelligence and Military Research of Concern in Neuroscience and Neurotechnology Open
Abstract: Current and newly emerging insights and technologies arising from research in brain sciences increase capabilities to access, assess and affect thought, emotion and behaviour. While much of this research and development is direct…
Opinion on Trust and Transparency in Artificial Intelligence - Ethics&Society, The Human Brain Project Open
The Ethics and Society Subproject has developed this Opinion in order to clarify lessons the Human Brain Project (HBP) can draw from the current discussion of artificial intelligence, in particular the social and ethical aspects of AI, and…
Drug overdose deaths, addiction neuroscience and the challenges of translation Open
In this article, we argue that the rapid rise in drug overdose deaths in America is a tragedy that draws attention to fundamental conceptual and experimental problems in addiction science that have significant human consequences. Despite e…
Towards Neuroecosociality: Mental Health in Adversity Open
Social theory has much to gain from taking up the challenges of conceptualizing ‘mental health’. Such an approach to the stunting of human mental life in conditions of adversity requires us to open up the black box of ‘environment’, and to…
Crisis, what crisis? Addiction neuroscience and the challenges of translation Open
In this article we interrogate the claim that there is an opioid crisis: a dramatic rise in drug overdose fatalities in the United States over the past two decades that is also spreading to other countries. The usual argument is that this …
Mental health, stress and the contemporary metropolis Open
Epidemiological research has repeatedly pointed to the increased prevalence of both 'common' and 'severe' mental disorders in cities, and proposed a range of competing hypotheses to account for this relationship. Recent research on the soc…
The social underpinnings of mental distress in the time of COVID-19 – time for urgent action Open
We argue that predictions of a ‘tsunami’ of mental health problems as a consequence of the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the lockdown are overstated; feelings of anxiety and sadness are entirely normal reactions to di…
The social underpinnings of mental distress in the time of COVID-19 - time for urgent action Open
We argue that predictions of a ‘tsunami’ of mental health problems as a consequence of the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the lockdown are overstated; feelings of anxiety and sadness are entirely normal reactions to di…
Machine Learning and Big Data for Neuro-Diagnostics: Opportunities and Challenges for Clinical Translation Open
In this report, we examine some developments in neurodiagnostics that make use of machine learning and other algorithms, with a particular focus on the potentials and challenges for clinical translation. As the ultimate aim of development …
Understanding Interstate Competitiveness and International Security in European Dual-Use Research Open
Dual-use (DU) technologies are both a threat to human security and an opportunity to generate economic value. This article reflects on tensions between state preferences for greater competitiveness in DU technologies and its implications f…
Still ‘like birds on the wire’? Freedom after neoliberalism Open
In this paper I suggest that we might understand some features of contemporary populism by reworking the concept of ‘authoritarian populism’ first proposed by Stuart Hall in his analysis of ‘Thatcherism’. Following a brief review of my ear…
Urban social exclusion and mental health of China's rural-urban migrants – A review and call for research Open
China's internal rural-urban migrants experience social exclusion that may have significant mental health implications. This has historically been exacerbated by the hukou system. Echoing recent calls for interdisciplinary research on the …
Synthetic Biology Biosensors for Global Health Challenges Open
Synthetic biologists seek to design, build and modify organisms at the genetic level. One category of engineered organisms, or devices, sense changes in the environment and respond by producing a change in state, such as colour. Two such ‘…
Synthetic Biology Biosensors for Global Health Challenges: Workshop Report of the Flowers Consortium Open
Synthetic biologists seek to design, build and modify organisms at the genetic level. One category of engineered organisms, or devices, sense changes in the environment and respond by producing a change in state, such as colour. Two such ‘…
Opinion and Action Plan on 'Data Protection and Privacy' Open
A fuller understanding of the human brain, better diagnoses and treatment of brain disorders, as well as the development of new brain-like technologies are all goals of the Human Brain Project. Realizing these goals requires the collection…
Foresight report on future computing and robotics: A Report from the HBP Foresight Lab Open
Deliverable to the European Commission, Ramp-Up Phase of the Human Brain Project
Living well in the<i>Neuropolis</i> Open
This paper is about the relationship between cities and brains: it charts the back-and-forth between the hectic, stressful lives of urban citizens, and a psychological and neurobiological literature that claims to make such stress both vis…
Revitalizing sociology: urban life and mental illness between history and the present Open
This paper proposes a re‐thinking of the relationship between sociology and the biological sciences. Tracing lines of connection between the history of sociology and the contemporary landscape of biology, the paper argues for a reconfigura…