- Interpreting Patients’ Beliefs About Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant Depression: The Need for Caution and for Context
- Vulnerability in Varying Contexts Affecting Decision Making in Patients With Treatment-Resistant Depression Contemplating Deep Brain Stimulation: Implications for Clinicians
- Consent for Deep Brain Stimulation in Depression: A Perspective From Investigators
- Moving the Discussion Forward—Empirically
- DBS for Depression? Lessons From Patients’ Beliefs for Research, Treatment, and Noninvasive Brain Modulation
- Selected Abstracts From the 2018 International Neuroethics Society Annual Meeting
- Trusting Oneself and Others: Relational Vulnerability and DBS for Depression
- How Relationships Matter: The Need for Closer Attention to Relationality in Neuroethical Studies
- Questioning Assumptions About Vulnerability in Psychiatric Patients
- Do Psychiatrists Hear Their Patients’ Voices? The Importance of Qualitative Research on Brain-Related Technologies
- Patients’ Weighing of the Long-Term Risks and Consequences Associated With Deep Brain Stimulation in Treatment-Resistant Depression
- Alienation, Quality of Life, and DBS for Depression
- Listening to Patients: A Pillar for the Epistemology of Neurointerventions
- What’s in a Name? How “Deep Brain Stimulation” May Influence Patients’ Perceptions
- Patients’ Beliefs About Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant Depression
- Mental Integrity and Intentional Side Effects
- If Criminal Intentions Are Nonvoluntary, Mandatory Neurointerventions Might Be Permissible
- Intending Versus Merely Foreseeing Harm: When Does It Make a Difference?
- ‘But What Do You Mean, Doctor?’ War Metaphors, Chronic Health Impacts, and Pain Threshold: The Physician as a Talking Placebo or Nocebo
- Placebo Analgesia as Nocebo Reduction
- Mandatory Neurointerventions Could Enhance the Mental Integrity of Certain Criminal Offenders
- Placebos and a New Exception to Informed Consent
- Punishment and Rehabilitation in the Use of Neurointerventions for Criminals
- The Negative Effects of Neurointerventions: Confusing Constitution and Causation
- Placebos Are Pharmacologically Inert Even If They Generate a Placebo Effect
- Rhetoric, Experimental Philosophy, and Irrelevance
- Mandatory Neurointervention: A Lesser Evil Than Incarceration?
- Neurointerventions in Offenders: Ethical Considerations
- Neurointerventions, Recidivist Sex Offenders, and Situated Moral Agency: An Approach From the Margins
- Differences in the Interior Design of Prisons and Persons
- Contextualizing and Individualizing Truth-Telling About Pain in a Tough and Unjust World
- Mechanisms and Mind Sets: The Roles of Terminology and Patient Mind Set in Clinician Truth-Telling and Placebo Use
- Truth-Telling and Respect for Autonomy
- Telling the Truth About Pain: Informed Consent and the Role of Expectation in Pain Intensity
- Neurointerventions: Punishment, Mental Integrity, and Intentions
- Pain Medicine During an Opioid Epidemic Needs More Transparency, Not Less
- Why I Do Not Agree That Neurointervention Is Less Ethical Than Incarceration
- Deception, Harm, and Expectations of Pain
- Pain, Placebos, and the Benefits of Disclosure
- Is Incarceration Better than Neurointervention? On the Intended Harms of Prison
- Punishing Intentions and Neurointerventions
- Mandatory Neurointerventions and the Risk of Racial Disparity
- Cognition Doesn’t Only Modulate Pain Perception; It’s a Central Component of It
- Honoring the Multiple Dimensions of Autonomy in All Phases of Treatment and Care
- Social Uncertainty in Disorders of Consciousness: Shedding Light on the Various Perspectives of Family Caregivers and Surrogates
- Bridging Matters of Uncertainty: The Importance of Focusing on “States in Between” for Disorders of Consciousness
- The Persisting Problem of Precedent Autonomy Among Persons in a Minimally Conscious State: The Limitations of Philosophical Analysis and Clinical Assessment
- Pure Experience and Disorders of Consciousness
- Of Meatballs, Autonomy, and Human Dignity: Neuroethics and the Boundaries of Decision Making Among Persons with Dementia
- Caring About Meatballs, Autonomy, and Human Dignity: Neuroethics and the Boundaries of Decision Making Among Persons With Dementia
- Choices and Relationships
- Of Meatballs And Invasive Neurotechnological Trials: Additional Considerations for Complex Clinical Decisions
- What Role is “Pure Experience” Consciousness Supposed to Play in Medical Ethics?: Pure Experience, Moral Status, and Clinical Decisions
- Domains of Well-Being in Minimally Conscious Patients: Illuminating a Persistent Problem
- The Sources of Uncertainty in Disorders of Consciousness
- Neural Correlates of Pure Experience, Anesthesia, and Meditation States
- He’s in There Somewhere! Reflecting on the Past, Present, and Future of Disorders of Consciousness
- The Road to HEAVEN Is Paved With Good Intentions: Transplanting Heads, Manipulating Selves, and Reassigning Genders
- The Rubicon Already Crossed
- Married to HEAVEN: Some Ethical Concerns in Response to “HEAVEN in the Making” by Ren and Canavero
- Ahead of Our Time: Why Head Transplantation Is Ethically Unsupportable
- Whose Head, Which Body?
- Head Transplants: Ghoulish Takes on New Definition
- Animal Testing and Medical Ethics in Human Head Transplantation
- HEAVEN in the Making: Between the Rock (the Academe) and a Hard Case (a Head Transplant)
- Reasonable Default in Organ Donation Policy
- “The Failure of Peer Review”
- The Ethical Asymmetry Between a Head/Body Transplant and Multiple Organ Transplants: Overall Health, Justice, and Risk
- HEAVEN, Equipoise, and What’s Best for the Patient
- Ethics Transplants? Addressing the Risks and Benefits of Guiding International Biomedicine
- Is There a Place for Humility in HEAVEN?
- Personal Identity and Head Transplant: A Psychological Analysis
- The New Age of Head Transplants: A Response to Critics
- Why HEAVEN Is Not About Saving Lives at All
- Throwing the Ethics (Hand)Book at Professional Organizations in the Neurological Sciences
- The Need for Further Fine-Grained Distinctions in Discussions of Authenticity and Deep Brain Stimulation
- Differences That Make a Difference in Disorders of Consciousness
- The Uncertainty of Consciousness and Why It Is Important
- DBS as a ‘Technological Fix’ or a ‘Regime of Care’? Recognizing the Importance of Narrative Identity in Neurosurgical Services
- Known Unknowns: Diagnosis and Prognosis in Disorders of Consciousness
- Unconscious Volition
- Changing the Conversation: A Capabilities Approach to Disordered Consciousness
- Reclaiming Narrative Identity and Recovery in Psychiatry
- Narrative Identity: Challenges for Retribution in the Criminal Justice System
- Against “We,” or an Argument for a Pluralistic Definition of Personhood in Bioethics
- Distributed Survival
- Others’ Contributions to an Individual’s Narrative Identity Matter
- Moral Responsibility, Alienation, and Multiplex Selves
- On the Ambiguity of ‘the Same Person’
- “Consciousness” as a Vague Predicate
- Personal Identity and Patient-Centered Medical Decision Making
- Does Narrative Identity Enhance Medical Decision Making?
- Brain–Computer Interfaces and Interactive Capacity in Patients With Disorders of Consciousness
- “I Just Wanna Get My Self, or My Story, Back Again”: Narrative Identity, Neurosurgical Intervention, and the Temporary Change Argument
- Cogitas Ergo Es? Metaphysical Humility in Disorders of Consciousness
- The Problems With Fixating on Consciousness in Disorders of Consciousness
- Is That the Same Person? Case Studies in Neurosurgery
- Sometimes, It’s Okay to Judge a Patient by Their Diagnosis
- A Taxonomy for Disorders of Consciousness That Takes Consciousness Seriously
- Identity Consistency and Medical Interventions
- Why Narrative Identity Matters: Preserving Authenticity in Neurosurgical Interventions
- Positive Outcomes and Causal Insufficiency Do Not Rule Out the Risk (and Importance) of DBS-Related Identity Changes
- The Missing Empirical Studies of DBS Recipients’ Views of Self
- Recognizing the Role of the Clinician in Agency-Influencing Interventions
- A Place for Subjectivity in Psychiatry
- Hypo- and Hyperagentic Psychiatric States, Next-Generation Closed-Loop DBS, and the Question of Agency
- Should We Be Concerned About Preserving Agency and Personal Identity in Patients With Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation Systems?
- Beyond the Technology: Attribution and Agency in Treatments for Mental Disorders
- The Songs of the Sirens and the Wax in the Ears: An Autonomy-Based Tool for DBS Device Users
- Does DBS Alienate Identity or Does It Simply Fail to Restore Identity Already Eroded by Illness?
- The Biomedical Self and the Machine
- Could Closed-Loop DBS Enhance a Person’s Feeling of Being Free?
- Missing Oneself or Becoming Oneself? The Difficulty of What “Becoming a Different Person” Means
- The Impact of Closed-Loop DBS on Agency: An Open Question
- Three Kinds of Agency and Closed-Loop Neural Devices
- The Patient’s Voice in DBS Research: Advancing the Discussion through Methodological Rigor
- Two Concerns Regarding Subjectively Perceived Self-Estrangement
- What Neuroscience and Neurophilosophy Can Tell Us About the Effects of Deep Brain Stimulation on the Self
- Quantitative Anticipatory Ethical Analysis Should Inform Neurotechnology Development
- Relational Agency: Yes—But How Far? Vulnerability and the Moral Self
- Neuroessentialism in Discussions About the Impact of Closed-Loop Technologies on Agency and Identity
- The Multidimensionality and Context Dependency of Selves
- Closed-Loop Deep Brain Stimulation and Its Compatibility With Autonomous Agency
- “I Miss You Too”: More Voices Needed to Examine the Phenomenological Effects of Deep Brain Stimulation
- Staying in the Loop: Relational Agency and Identity in Next-Generation DBS for Psychiatry
- I Miss Being Me: Phenomenological Effects of Deep Brain Stimulation
- Ethics, Ethicists, and Professional Organizations in the Neurological Sciences
- In Defense of Legal Obscurity
- Ethical and Legal Concerns Associated With the Comprehension of Legal Language and Concepts
- Crowdsourced tDCS Research: Feasible or Fanciful?
- Legal Language of Health Care Consent Forms: Complexity, Comprehension, and Impact on Patient Decision Making
- Science and Law Separated by Impenetrable Language Barriers: Overcoming Impediments to Much Needed Interactions
- Decision Making and Semiotic Vulnerability
- tDCS Research in a World With FDA Regulation
- Neuroethics for Neurology Residents: Concepts and Contingencies of a Pilot Neuroethics Curriculum
- Improving Ethics Standardization Through Examination
- What Can We Do for You? The Role of Ethics Experts in Neuroscience
- Moral Case Deliberation: Its Value for Neuroethics
- Beyond “Sign at the X”: In Pursuit of Comprehension
- The Role and Obligations of Ethicists as Members of Ethics Committees in Professional Organizations
- Ethics Education and Ethics Committees for Neuroscience Research Is a Timely Proposition
- Selected Abstracts From the 2016 International Neuroethics Society Annual Meeting
- Language Impairment and Legal Literacy: Is a Degree of Perfectionism Unavoidable?