The McCarrison Society - NL 40/1: Special Generating Healthy Brains Edition

NL 40/1: Special Generating Healthy Brains Edition

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NL 40/1: Special Generating Healthy Brains Edition
Chairman's comments
GHB Special Report On The McCarrison Society
GHB:Report by Conference Organiser Rev Simon House, MA
GHB: Preconception to late adolescence:
GHB: From past to present: evolution and epigenetics
GHB: CLEAVE LECTURE Nutrition, the brain and mental ill health
GHB: Our changing diet; deficits and disorders
GHB: Genomic imprinting for brain development and behaviour
GHB: 'Brainfoods': Modulating brain structure and function
GHB: The effects of maternal anxiety or stress during pregnancy
GHB: Cornerstones in the Psychobiological Development of Mankind:
GHB: A psycho-soma integration perspective
GHB: 'New Parenting', psychotherapy, prenatal
GHB: Attention deficit disorders
GHB: Priorities in Research Funding
GHB:Into the future; avoiding the cost of folly
GHB: References
News
Mind What You Eat
McCarrison meeting with Sustain
Future Events

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GHB: Priorities in Research Funding

Dr. Richard Ashcroft: reader in biomedical ethics at Imperial College – examined the criteria (scientific or social welfare) on which prospective research is assessed.

• Is the proposal scientifically interesting/ challenging/unresolved for a long time?

• Is it the most likely to advance understanding in the field?

• Is it the easiest to solve?

• It is a team with the best track record – or the most potential?

Or should the criteria be quite different?

• The solution of which problem would improve social welfare most?

• Should research focus on the poorest in society or on future social welfare?

• No matter how desirable, will scientists be able to provide an answer no matter how much funding is given? (Richard Nixon enabled billions of dollars for cancer research in the 1970s on the understanding that science would have ‘solved’ cancer in 10 years.)

Dr. Ashcroft suggested a combination of both approaches but... transparent to public scrutiny.

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