Judy Illes has a dilemma. What happens when someone who has agreed to participate in a medical study undergoes a brain scan during which the researcher happens to discover an anomaly, a potential ...

The NIH BRAIN Initiative aims to develop new tools and neurotechnologies to transform our understanding of brain function in health and disease. That knowledge is critical to enable novel therapies ...

News Analysis News of a brain scanner that can read a person's intentions has led to calls that neuroscientists should debate the ethics of their work before it can be misused by governments, lawyers ...

The demise of football isn’t the question we should be asking. CTE is opening the door to a realm of “neuroethics” that must be addressed; otherwise, our judicial system will be faced with an extreme ...

As scientists develop powerful neurotechnologies to monitor and regulate brain activity, ethical questions arise about how these new tools should be incorporated into medical research and clinical ...

Neuroethics research can contribute a level of conceptual clarity to international brain research initiatives that is essential for their ethics management as well as for the interpretations, ...

RALEIGH – Devices that allow computers to interface with the human brain are already here – close to 200,000 people have cochlear implants in the U.S. alone. And a wide range of additional ...

News of a brain scanner that can read a person's intentions has led to calls that neuroscientists should debate the ethics of their work before it can be misused by governments, lawyers or advertisers ...