neuroethics
Sign in to saveright|thumb|260px|Deep brain stimulation and other brain interventions raise moral issues about free will, valid consent, and enhancement. In philosophy and neuroscience, neuroethics is the study of both the ethics of neuroscience and the neuroscience of ethics. The ethics of neuroscience concerns the ethical, legal, and social impact of neuroscience, including the ways in which neurotechnology can be used to predict or alter human behavior and "the implications of our mechanistic understanding of brain function for society... integrating neuroscientific knowledge with ethical and social thoug
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- Two categories of problems
- Historical background and implications of neuroscience ethics
- Important activity since 2002
- Sources of information
- Key issues
- Brain interventions
- Brain imaging
- Memory dampening
- Ethics of brain organoids
- Sentient organoids
- Guidelines and legislation
- Humanized animals
- Ethics of cognitive wetware
- Cognitive diversity
- Stem cell therapy
- Disorders of consciousness
- Pharmacological enhancement
- Neuromarketing
- Political neuromarketing
- Neurological treatments
- Neuroscience and free will
- Academic journals
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
right|thumb|260px|Deep brain stimulation and other brain interventions raise moral issues about free will, valid consent, and enhancement. In philosophy and neuroscience, neuroethics is the study of both the ethics of neuroscience and the neuroscience of ethics. The ethics of neuroscience concerns the ethical, legal, and social impact of neuroscience, including the ways in which neurotechnology can be used to predict or alter human behavior and "the implications of our mechanistic understanding of brain function for society... integrating neuroscientific knowledge with ethical and social thought".
Some neuroethics problems are not fundamentally different from those encountered in bioethics. Others are unique to neuroethics because the brain, as the organ of the mind, has implications for broader philosophical problems, such as the nature of free will, moral responsibility, self-deception, and personal identity. Examples of neuroethics topics are given later in this article .