And here is another exclusive insight into the preparations of this year's MIT Smart Customization Seminar's schedule and speakers! Today we tell a bit about session two:
Session 2: December 4th, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Digital Biology and Personalized Medicine
Speaker: Ed Boyden, http://syntheticneurobiology.org/
Personalization and customization have a long-standing tradition in health care, where treatments and prescriptions have always been tailored to individual patients’ needs.
Over the last decade, further personalization efforts were made by offering customized implants and diagnostics that adapt to physical features of patients. New technologies will extend this much further by building on an individual’s genetic predispositions to better predict treatment outcomes.
In addition, selective control over specific areas of neural circuits for the first time enables a thorough analysis of how behavior patterns and experience come about. On the other hand, from a more practical perspective, those behavioral patterns and underlying neural circuits can be readjusted using advanced mental techniques, ensuring optimum performance in critical situations. In this session, we will explore both new technical developments as well as the surrounding ethical debate and its implications for technology.
For more up-to-date information and registration please head to http://scg.mit.edu or follow the conference twitter hashtag, #SCG12!
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