Neuroethics

Pressing ethical issues are at the foreground of newfound knowledge of how the brain works, how the brain fails, and how information about its functions and failures are addressed, recorded and shared. In Neuroethics: Anticipating the Future, a distinguished group of contributors tackle current critical questions and anticipate the issues on the horizon.What new balances should be struck between diagnosis and prediction, or invasive and non-invasive interventions, given the rapid advances in neuroscience? Are new criteria needed for the clinical definition of death for those eligible for organ donation? What educational, social and medical opportunities will new neuroscience discoveries bring to the children of tomorrow? As data from emerging technologies are made available on public databases, what frameworks will maximize benefits while ensuring privacy of health information? How is the environment shaping humans, and humans shaping the environment? These challenging questions and other future-looking neuroethical concerns are discussed in depth.Written by eminent scholars from diverse disciplines - neurology and neuroscience, ethics, law, public health, and philosophy - this new volume on neuroethics sets out the conditions for active consideration. It is essential reading for the fields of neuroethics, neurosciences and psychology, and an invaluable resource for physicians in neurology and neurosurgery, psychiatry, paediatrics, and rehabilitation medicine, academics in humanities and law, and health policy makers.

Dr. Judy Illes is a pioneer and a global leader in the field of neuroethics. As a neuroscientist turned neuroscientist-neuroethicist, she has made groundbreaking contributions to ethical, social, and policy challenges at the intersection of biomedical ethics and neuroscience. Her seminal contributions to tackling challenges in neuroimaging, neurodevelopment and aging, addiction and mental health, regenerative medicine, cross-cultural studies, and the commercialization of health care, have had a transformative impact in the way that research is designed and executed, and results and new knowledge shared with the public and decision-makers. She is President of the International Neuroethics Society, a member of the Standing Committee on Ethics for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and internationally recognized author, collaborator, and mentor.

- I. Neurotechnology: Today and Tomorrow - 1: Debra J.H. Mathews: When Emerging Biomedical Technologies Converge or Collide - 2: Urs Ribary, Alex L. Mackay, Alex Rauscher, Christine M. Tipper, Deborah E. Giaschi, Todd S. Woodward, Vesna Sossi, Sam M. Doesburg, Lawrence M. Ward, Anthony Herdman, Ghassan Hamarneh, Brian G. Booth, and Alexander Moiseev: Emerging Neuroimaging Technologies: Towards Future Personalized Diagnostics, Prognosis, Targeted Intervention and Ethical Challenges - 3: Lorna M. Gibson, Cathie L.M. Sudlow, Joanna M. Wardlaw: Incidental Findings: Current Ethical Debates and Future Challenges in Advanced Neuroimaging - 4: Niranjan S. Karnik: Vulnerability, Youth and Homelessness: Ethical Considerations on the Roles of Technology in the Lives of Adolescents and Young Adults - 5: Karola V. Kreitmair and Mildred K. Cho: The Neuroethical Future of Wearable and Mobile Health Technology - 6: Peter B. Reiner and Saskia K. Nagel: Technologies of the Extended Mind - 7: Eran Klein: Neuromodulation Ethics: Preparing for Brain-computer Interface Medicine - 8: Khara M. Ramos and Walter J. Koroshetz: Integrating Ethics into Neurotechnology Research and Development: The USA National Institutes of Health BRAIN Initiative - II. Neuroethics at the Frontline of Healthcare - 9: Cheryl D. Lew: What Do New Neuroscience Discoveries in Children Mean for Their Open Future? - 10: Sarah Welsh, Genevieve Dupont-Thibodeau, Matthew P. Kirschen: Neuroprognostication after Severe Brain Injuryin Children: Science Fiction or Plausible Reality? - 11: Elvira V. Lang: No Pain No Gain: A Neuroethical Place for Hypnosis in Invasive Intervention - 12: Karen S. Rommelfanger: Placebo Beyond Controls: The Neuroscience and Ethics of Navigating a New Understanding of Placebo Therapy - 13: Sabine Müller: Ethical Challenges of Modern Psychiatric Neurosurgery - 14: Shelly Benjaminy and Anthony Traboulsee: At the Crossroads of Civic Engagement and Evidence-Based Medicine: Lessons Learned from the Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency Experience - 15: Agnieszka Jaworska: Ethical Dilemmas in Neurodegenerative Disease: Respecting Patients at the Twilight of Agency - 16: Hervé Chneiweiss: Anticipating a Therapeutically Elusive Neurodegenerative Condition: Ethical Considerations for the Preclinical Detection of Alzheimer's Disease - 17: David B. Fischer, Robert D. Truog: When Bright Lines Blur: Deconstructing Distinctions Between Disorders of Consciousness - 18: James L. Bernat: Brain Death and the Definition of Death - III. Social, Legal and Regulatory Frameworks: Lessons of the Past Guide Policy for the Future - 19: Vasiliki Rahimzadeh, Karine Sénécal, Erika Kleiderman, Bartha M. Knoppers: Minors and Incompetent Adults: A Tale of Two Populations - 20: Eric Racine and Veljko Dubljevi: Behavioral and Brain-based Research on Free Moral Agency: Threatening or Empowering? - 21: Fabrice Jotterand: Cognitive Enhancement of Today May Be the Normal of Tomorrow - 22: Laura Y. Cabrera: Environmental Neuroethics: Setting the Foundations - 23: Jordan Tesluk, Judy Illes, Ralph Matthews: First Nations and Environmental Neuroethics: Perspectives on Brain Health from a World of Change - 24: Steven E. Hyman: The Neurobiology of Addiction as a Window on Voluntary Control of Behavior and Moral Responsibility - 25: Adrian Carter and Wayne Hall: Looking to the Future: Clinical and Policy Implications of a Brain Disease Model of Addiction - 26: Brad Partridge and Wayne Hall: Concussion, Neuroethics, and Sport: Policies of the Past Do Not Suffice for the Future - 27: Jonathan Moreno, Michael N. Tennison, and James Giordano: Security Threat Versus Aggregated Truths: Ethical Issues in the Use of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology for National Security - 28: Julie M. Robillard and Emily Wight: Communicating About the Brain in the Digital Era - 29: Jennifer A. Chandler: The Impact of Neuroscience in the Law: How Perceptions of Control and Responsibility Affect the Definition of Disability - 30: Dan J. Stein and James Giordano: Neuroethics and Global Mental Health: Establishing a Dialogue - IV. Epilogue - 31: Joseph J. Fins: Neuroethics and Neurotechnology: Instrumentality and Human Rights