Profile

Dr. Steiner is a neuroscientist with an expansive career that spans academia, the biomedical industry, neuroethics, and neurolaw. He was the first to identify brain-based correlates of regret in non-human animals (rats can experience regret, applying human constructs to calculation-based neuroeconomics in animals), and his interests bridge neuroethics/neurolaw, concussion communication/educational STEM outreach, consumer-based neurotechnologies, and the teaching of neurosciences. Dr. Steiner has been involved in many collaborative interdisciplinary contributions, fostering cohesive dialogues between seemingly disparate fields. Dr. Steiner has continually engaged in the application and development of neuroscience, technology, and society through collaborations with the biomedical industry. Beyond the technical, his background experiences include the legal and ethical implications of neuroscience, informed by experiences with the MacArthur Foundation’s Network on Law and Neuroscience. He is a long-time collaborator of the Shen Neurolaw Lab at Harvard Medical School, addressing a wide range of neurolaw questions: https://www.fxshen.com/shenlab/. Neuroscience, technology, ethics, and education are at the heart of his interests. He is committed to driving innovation in neurotechnology while ensuring that advancements are grounded in ethical considerations and can be effectively communicated and understood across disciplines.

Education

• Ph.D. in Neuroscience, University of Minnesota - Academic Health Center and Medical School, 2014

Areas of Interest

• Neuroscience Education
• Neuroethics/Neurolaw
• Consumer Neurotechnology
• Public Policy

Courses Taught

• Psyc421 Behavioral Neuroscience
• PSYC420 Psychopharmacology
• PSYC321 Brain and Behavior
• PSYC211W Research Methods
• PSYC206 Intro to Cognitive Science
• Psyc103W Psychology Today

Selected Publications/Presentations

• US Patent - Designed and programmed the probability function used.
  Pub. No. US 2023/11744499 B2. Pub. Date: Sept 5, 2023
  Title: Monitoring Bladder Dysfunction Using a Probability Function
• Steiner, AP., Osagiede, R., Roytman, M., Sosa-Lopez, A., & Shen, F.X. (2023). Developing leaders in neuroscience and society: promoting career pathways, fostering dialog, and integrating ethical, legal, and social issues into undergraduate neuroscience teaching. Neuroscience Teaching Conference, Winston-Salem, NC. July 2023.
• Fitzwilliams, E., Diekmann, S., Rasmussen, C., Everson, A., Limberg, T., Shen, F., Steiner, A. (2022). The effect of sports related concussion education quality on how youth athletes and parents perceive risk and concussion management. Abstracts. International Neuroethics Society Meeting, November 2022.
• Gage, G. J. & Steiner, A. P.. Portable, Low-Cost Laboratory Exercises for Investigating both Wave and Event-Related Electroencephalogram Potentials Increases Undergraduate Interest in Neuroscience. Neuroscience 2022 Abstracts. San Diego, CA. Society for Neuroscience 2022.
• Steiner, A.P. (2019). Loading Electroencephalogram data from mobile acquisition devices: a training guide [Computer Software]. Teaching Computation in the Sciences Using MATLAB, Carleton College Science Education Peer Reviewed Collection. Carleton College.
• Stark., E., Lassonde., K., & Steiner, A. (2019). Building communication skills through hands-on museum demonstrations of psychological science. Midwest Psychological Association. Chicago, IL, April 2019.
• Steiner, A.P., & Redish, A.D. (2014). Behavioral and neurophysiological correlates of regret in rat decision-making and neuroeconomic task. Nature Neuroscience, 17: 995-1002.
• Steiner, A.P., & Redish, A.D. (2012). The road not taken: Neural correlates of decision-making in orbitofrontal cortex. Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience, 6, 131.
• Blumenthal, A., Steiner, A. Seeland, K., & Redish, A.D. (2011). Effects of pharmacological manipulations of NMDA-receptors on deliberation in the Multiple-T task. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 95, 376-384.
• Neural representations of decision making. Medtronic Rount Table. March 2015.
• The Neural Correlates of Decision Making. Invited group presentation to the President of the University of Minnesota, University of Minnesota Academic Health Center. March 2012.

Affiliated Research Group

Shen Neurolaw Lab