Neuroethics is concerned with the wide array of ethical, legal and social issues that are raised in research and practice. The field has grown rapidly over the last five years, becoming an active interdisciplinary research area involving a much larger set of academic fields and professions, including law, developmental psychology, neuropsychiatry, and the military.Neuroethics and Practice helps to define and foster this emerging area at the intersection of neuroethics and clinical neuroscience, which includes neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry and their pediatric subspecialties, as well as neurorehabiliation, clinical neuropsychology, clinical bioethics, and the myriad other clinical specialties (including nursing and geriatrics) in which practitioners grapple with issues of mind and brain. Chatterjee and Farah have brought together leading neuroethicists working in clinically relevant areas to contribute chapters on an intellectually fascinating and clinically important set of neuroethical topics, involving brain enhancements, brain imaging, competence and responsibility, severe brain damage, and consequences of new neurotechnologies. Although this book will be of direct interest to clinicians, as the first edited volume to provide an overall comprehensive perspective on neurethics across disciplines, it is also a unique and useful resource for a wide range of other scholars and students interested in ethics and neuroscience.

ContributorsPreface: Neuroethics in PracticeAnjan Chatterjee and Martha FarahPart I: BRAIN ENHANCEMENT1. Enhancement of healthy adult brainsAnjan Chatterjee2. Brain enhancement and childrenIlina Singh and Kelly Kelleher3. Brain enhancement in the militaryMichael Russo, Melba C. Stetz, and Thomas A. Stetz4. Marketing illness and enhancing brainsPeter Conrad and Allen Horwitz5. Brain trainingBreehan Kelley and Anjan ChatterjeePart II: COMPETENCE AND RESPONSIBILITY6. Competence for driving, voting, financial independenceJason Karlawish7. Competence for informed consent for research and treatmentScott Kim8. Addiction and responsibilitySteven HymanPart III: BRAIN IMAGING9. Medicolegal issues in neuroimagingStacey Tovino10. Incidental findings in neuroimaging studiesJohn Detre and Tamara B. Bockow11. Neuroimaging and clinical neuropsychiatryMartha Farah and Seth GillihanPart IV: SEVERE BRAIN DAMAGE12. Brain deathSteven Laureys13. Disorders of consciousness following severe brain damageJoseph Fins and Nikolas Schiff14. Personhood and severe neurological impairmentMartha FarahPart V: NEW TREATMENTS, NEW CHALLENGES15. Functional neurosurgery and deep brain stimulationMattis Synofzik16. Noninvasive Brain Stimulation: Future prospects and ethical concerns in treatment and researchAlvaro Pascual-Leone, Lachlan Farrow, and Felipe Fregni17. Implanted neural interfaces: Ethical concerns in treatment and researchLeigh Hochberg and Thomas Cochrane18. Biologic therapies for the brainJonathan Kimmelman