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 ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—The ethical standards and professional responsibility of neuroscience researchers will be explored in a talk that leads Western Michigan University's Center for the Study of Ethics in ...

With support from the National Institutes of Health's Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® (BRAIN) Initiative, scientists are developing powerful new devices and technologies ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...