neuroethics
Definitions
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- noun The ethics of neuroscience and neurotechnology.
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- noun the study of ethical implications of treatments for neurological diseases
Examples
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The importance of establishing principles of "neuroethics" for marketing to children is particularly acute when we consider the world of digital marketing.
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Behaviorally speaking, heroes and serial do-gooders have a lot in common with sociopaths, according to this paper on psychology and neuroethics: "their personality traits are very similar, with only a few features to distinguish them."
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Moral psychology and neuroethics investigate the implications of the debates on the nature of delusions in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of psychiatry for the type of participation in the moral community to which people with delusions are entitled.
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'The potential for misuse of this technology is profound,' said Judy Illes, director of the Stanford University neuroethics program in California.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Call for "neuroethics" as brain science races ahead - Yahoo! News
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Until now, we in the neuroethics community and many in the PTSD community had been considering the implications of memory dampening - modifying the emotional impact of a memory by the use of such agents as propanalol, but in all of the experiments carried out to date, the memory itself was intact.
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For his leading role in a new area of philosophy - neuroethics - Neil Levy, of the University of Melbourne, was awarded the Eureka Prize for Research in Ethics.
Note
The word 'neuroethics' is a blend of 'neuro-' ('nerve') + 'ethics'.
