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AbstractEffective teaching requires integration across disciplines. This abstract reports an after school enrichment course for gifted 7th graders that used biomedical ethics to teach neuroscience and neuroscience to teach biomedical ethics. All materials were web-based. They included bioethical resources from the Kennedy Institute of Ethics site at Georgetown University (www.georgetown.edu/research/kie/) and neuroscience educational resources from the Society for Neuroscience (SFN) site, including links from the Education Resources page of the SFN Committee on Neuroscience Literacy (www.sfn.org/cnl/cnleduc.html). Ten cases were developed: tobacco and the brain, a persistent vegetative state, a heart transplant in a chronic alcoholic, animal brain research, human brain research, pain in a cancer patient near death, the financial costs of Alzheimer’s disease, ethical issues with organ/body donations, traumatic brain injury in a child without a bicycle helmet, and a genetically engineered smart mouse. For each case,...Nov 11, 2001