These recommendations are the result of a national, multidisciplinary, year-long process to
discuss whether and how to proceed with organ donation after cardiocirculatory death …

Psychotropic and other drugs can alter brain mechanisms regulating the formation, storage,
and retrieval of different types of memory. These include “off label” uses of existing drugs …

Our ability to map and intervene in the structure of the human brain is proceeding at a very
quick rate. Advances in psychiatry, neurology, and neurosurgery have given us fresh …

This book is a discussion of the most timely and contentious issues in the two branches of
neuroethics: the neuroscience of ethics; and the ethics of neuroscience. Drawing upon …

Deep-brain stimulation has been used to treat advanced Parkinson disease and other
neurological and psychiatric disorders that have not responded to other treatments. While …

Brain implants, such as Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), which are designed to improve
motor, mood and behavioural pathology, present unique challenges to our understanding of …

Recent advances in human genetics suggest that it may become possible to genetically
manipulate telomerase and embryonic stem cells to alter the mechanisms of aging and …

Neuroimaging, psychosurgery, deep‐brain stimulation, and psychopharmacology hold
considerable promise for more accurate prediction and diagnosis and more effective …

Many believe that it is morally wrong to give lower priority for a liver transplant to alcoholics
with end-stage liver disease than to patients whose disease is not alcohol-related …

Many neuroscientists have claimed that our minds are just a function of and thus reducible to
our brains. I challenge neuroreductionism by arguing that the mind emerges from and is …