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Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Deep Brain Stimulation Think Tank: Advances in Optogenetics, Ethical Issues Affecting DBS Research, Neuromodulatory Approaches for Depression, Adaptive Neurostimulation, and Emerging DBS Technologies

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021
We estimate that 208,000 deep brain stimulation (DBS) devices have been implanted to address neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders worldwide. DBS Think Tank presenters pooled data and determined that DBS expanded in its scope and has been applied ...
Vinata Vedam-Mai   +63 more
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Neurofeedback-Based Moral Enhancement and the Notion of Morality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Some skeptics question the very possibility of moral bioenhancement by arguing that if we lack a widely acceptable notion of morality, we will not be able to accept the use of a biotechnological technique as a tool for moral bioenhancement.
Tachibana, Koji
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Equal Rights for Zombies?: Phenomenal Consciousness and Responsible Agency [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Intuitively, moral responsibility requires conscious awareness of what one is doing, and why one is doing it, but what kind of awareness is at issue? Neil Levy argues that phenomenal consciousness—the qualitative feel of conscious sensations—is entirely ...
Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan   +2 more
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The Atlanta Neuroethics Consortium

open access: yesVoices in Bioethics, 2014
Recently, I attended the Atlanta Neuroethics Consortium’s (ANEC) conference on Neuro-Interventions and the Law: Regulating Human Mental Capacity (September 12-14). Hosted by Professor Dr.
Joshua Preston
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The Use of Neuroscience and Psychological Measurement in England's Court of Protection

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2020
The 2005 Mental Capacity Act of England and Wales provides a description in statute law of a test determining if a person lacks “mental capacity” to take a particular decision and describes how the “best interests” of such a person should be determined ...
Andrew McWilliams   +6 more
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Neuroethics: the institutionalization of ethics in neuroscience

open access: yesRevista Bioética
Recent advances in neuroscience have led to numerous ethical questions. Neuroethics is the study of ethical, legal and social advancements in neuroscience which, despite being a recently developed discipline, has a long historical tradition.
Amer Cavalheiro Hamdan
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Beyond Scientism and Skepticism: An Integrative Approach to Global Mental Health

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2015
The global burden of disorders has shifted from infectious disease to non-communicable diseases, including neuropsychiatric disorders. Whereas infectious disease can sometimes be combated by targeting single causal mechanisms, such as prevention of ...
Dan J Stein, Judy eIlles
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Data Governance in International Neuroscience Research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
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Akintoye, Simisola   +5 more
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Neuroethics transformation of economic rationality: implications for decision making in business

open access: yesPensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2017
The economy and business field has traditionally been dominated by a conception of calculator, strategic and profit-maximizing individual rationality. This model of rationality has important theoretical limitations and practical consequences.
José-Félix Lozano
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Self-Transcendence Correlates with Brain Function Impairment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
A broad pattern of correlations between mechanisms of brain function impairment and self-transcendence is shown. The pattern includes such mechanisms as cerebral hypoxia, physiological stress, transcranial magnetic stimulation, trance-induced ...
Kastrup, Bernardo
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