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...clear, brain imaging has already started to do so. Even in their current state, brain scans may be able to reveal, without our consent, hidden things about who we are and what we think and feel. "I don't have a problem with looking into your brain," says Alan Leshner, former director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and current head of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. "But I'm not so sure I want you looking into mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brain: Who Should Read Your Mind? | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

...answers, neuroethicists say, will come not from any pronouncements they might make but from the dialogue they are initiating with the public. "We need to keep this discussion rational," Leshner says, "so that science can advance and society can benefit from the tremendous potential of being able to look into the brain of a living, breathing, behaving individual and watch the mind in action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brain: Who Should Read Your Mind? | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

...Leshner attributes Hyman’s success at changing the course of NIMH to his leadership style...

Author: By May Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jump Starter | 2/4/2005 | See Source »

...suspect the people who were quite weak researchers were very threatened by him,” Leshner says. “Did everybody love every day of it? Probably not. But the place was better...

Author: By May Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jump Starter | 2/4/2005 | See Source »

...gave him experience in diplomacy, tolerance for turf and over the course of the time he was at NIH, he grew into someone who is able to recognize and respect diverse perspectives,” says Leshner. “That’s why I think he’d be a good provost...

Author: By May Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jump Starter | 2/4/2005 | See Source »

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