Neuroethics Publications
Papers from 2017
Buildings, Beauty, and the Brain: A Neuroscience of Architectural Experience, Alex Coburn, Oshin Vartanian, and Anjan Chatterjee
Childhood socioeconomic status and childhood maltreatment: Distinct associations with brain structure, Gwendolyn M. Lawson, Joshua S. Camins, Laura Wisse, Jue Wu, Jeffrey T. Duda, Philip A. Cook, James C. Gee, and Martha J. Farah
A neural model of valuation and information virality, Christin Scholz, Elisa C. Baek, Matthew B. O’Donnell, Hyun Suk Kim, Joseph N. Cappella, and Emily B. Falk
Modulating the neural bases of persuasion: why/how, gain/loss, and users/non-users, Stephanie Vezich, Perri L. Katzman, Daniel L. Ames, Emily B. Falk, and Matthew D. Lieberman
Predicting the knowledge–recklessness distinction in the human brain, Iris Vilaresa, Michael J. Wesley, Woo-Young Ahn, Richard J. Bonnie, Morris Hoffman, Owen D. Jones, Stephen J. Morse, Gideon Yaffe, Terry Lohrenz, and P. Read Montague
The Poverty of the Neuroscience of Poverty: Policy Payoff or False Promise?, Amy L. Wax
Papers from 2016
Unfinished Business in Preventing Alzheimer Disease, Jason Karlawish and Kenneth M. Langa
Do Political and Economic Choices Rely on Common Neural Substrates? A Systematic Review of the Emerging Neuropolitics Literature, Sekoul Krastev, Joseph T. McGuire, Denver McNeney, Joseph W. Kable, Dietlind Stolle, Elisabeth Gidengil, and Lesley K. Fellows
Minding the ‘Gaps’ in the Federal Regulation of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Devices, Andreas Kuersten and Roy Hamilton
Minding the 'gaps' in the federal regulation of transcranial direct current stimulation devices, Andreas Kuersten and Roy H. Hamilton
Does Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Improve Healthy Working Memory?: A Meta-Analytic Review, Lauren E. Mancuso, Irena P. Ilieva, Roy Hamilton, and Martha J. Farah
Does Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Improve Healthy Working Memory?: A Meta-analytic Review, Lauren E. Mancuso, Irena P. Ilieva, Roy H. Hamilton, and Martha J. Farah
Ethical Challenges in Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease Observational Studies and Trials: Results of the Barcelona Summit, Jose L. Molinuevo, Jordi Cami, Xavier Carne, Maria C. Carrillo, Jean Georges, Maria B. Isaac, Zaven Khachaturian, Scott Y. H. Kim, John C. Morris, Florence Pasquier, Craig Ritchie, Reisa Sperling, and Jason Karlawish
Acid Brothers: Henry Beecher, Timothy Leary, and the psychedelic of the century, Jonathan D. Moreno
Actions speak louder than images: the use of neuroscientific evidence in criminal cases, Stephen J. Morse
Anodal tDCS to Right Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Facilitates Performance for Novice Jazz Improvisers but Hinders Experts, David S. Rosen, Brian Erickson, Youngmoo E. Kim, Daniel Mirman, and Roy H. Hamilton
“Matter No More”: Edgar Allan Poe and the Paradoxes of Materialism, John Tresch
Papers from 2015
Relation of Childhood Home Environment to Cortical Thickness in Late Adolescence: Specificity of Experience and Timing, Brian B. Avants, Daniel A Hackman, Laura Betancourt, Gwendolyn M. Lawson, Hallam Hurt, and Martha J. Farah
Social Influence and the Brain: Persuasion, Susceptibility to Influence and Retransmission, Christopher N. Cascio, Christin Scholz, and Emily B. Falk
The Neuropsychology of Visual Art, Anjan Chatterjee
An Ethics Toolbox for Neurotechnology, Martha J. Farah
The Unknowns of Cognitive Enhancement, Martha J. Farah
Psychopathy and Free Will From a Philosophical and Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective, Farah Focquaert, Andrea L. Glenn, and Adrian Raine
Prescription Stimulants' Effects on Healthy Inhibitory Control, Working Memory, and Episodic Memory: A Meta-Analysis, Irena Ilieva, Cayce J. Hook, and Martha J. Farah
Neural Markers of Individual Differences in Decision-making, Joseph W. Kable and Ifat Levy
Ethics of Genetic and Biomarker Test Disclosures in Neurodegenerative Disease Prevention Trials, Scott Y. H Kim, Jason Karlawish, and Benjamin E. Berkman
Does Incidental Disgust Amplify Moral Judgment? A Meta-Analytic Review of Experimental Evidence, Justin F. Landy and Geoffrey P. Goodwin
Differential effects of socioeconomic status on working and procedural memory systems, Julia A. Leonard, Allyson P. Mackey, Amy S. Finn, and John D.E. Gabrieli
Progress and Challenges in Probing the Human Brain, Russell A. Poldrack and Martha J. Farah
Neural Correlates of Post-Conventional Moral Reasoning: A Voxel-Based Morphometry Study, Kristin Prehn, Marc Korczykowski, Hengyi Rao, Zhuo Fang, John A. Detre, and Diana C. Robertson
Brain Imaging Research on Psychopathy: Implications for Punishment, Prediction, and Treatment in Youth and Adults, Rebecca Umbach, Colleen Berryessa, and Adrian Raine
Emotional Reaction Facilitates the Brain and Behavioral Impact of Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels in Smokers, An-Li Wang, Steven B. Lowen, Daniel Romer, Mario Giorno, and Daniel D. Langleben
Emotional Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels Reduce the Electrophysiological Brain Response to Smoking Cues, An-Li Wang, Daniel Romer, Igor Elman, Bruce I. Turetsky, Ruben Gur, and Daniel D. Langleben
Deconstructing the Seductive Allure of Neuroscience Explanations, Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Jordan C.V Taylor, and Emily J. Hopkins
Papers from 2014
Functional Neuroimaging: Technical, Logical, and Social Perspectives, Geoffrey K. Aguirre
Minds, Motherboards, and Money: Futurism and Realism in the Neuroethics of BCI Technologies, Mark A. Attiah and Martha J. Farah
Broadening the Focus, Tom Buller, Adam Shriver, and Martha J. Farah
Ethics of the Electrified Mind: Defining Issues and Perspectives on the Principled Use of Brain Stimulation in Medical Research and Clinical Care, Laura Y. Cabrera, Emily L. Evans, and Roy H. Hamilton
Brain Images, Babies, and Bathwater: Critiquing Critiques of Functional Neuroimaging, Martha J. Farah
Functional MRI-Based Lie Detection: Scientific and Societal Challenges, Martha J. Farah, J. Benjamin Hutchinson, Elizabeth A. Phelps, and Anthony D. Wagner
Cognitive Enhancement, Martha J. Farah, M. Elizabeth Smith, Irena Ilieva, and Roy Hamilton
Neuroanatomy Predicts Individual Risk Attitudes, Sharon Gilaie-Dotan, Agnieszka Tymula, Nicole Cooper, Joseph W. Kable, Paul W. Glimcher, and Ifat Levy
Neurocriminology: Implications for the Punishment, Prediction and Prevention of Criminal Behaviour, Andrea L. Glenn and Adrian Raine
How Are We Going to Live With Alzheimer's Disease?, Jason Karlawish
Unwrapping a Fragile Concept, Jason Karlawish
Minding the Aging Brain: Are We Ready for Personalized Medicine?, Jason Karlawish and Robert C. Green
The Brain, Cognitive Enhancement Devices, and European Regulation, Andreas Kuersten and Roy H. Hamilton
Lower Amygdala Volume in Men is Associated With Childhood Aggression, Early Psychopathic Traits, and Future Violence, Dustin A. Pardini, Adrian Raine, Kirk Erickson, and Rolf Loeber
Papers from 2013
The Valuation System: A Coordinate-Based Meta-Analysis of BOLD fMRI Experiments Examining Neural Correlates of Subjective Value, Oscar Bartra, Joseph T. McGuire, and Joseph W. Kable
The Seductive Allure of "Seductive Allure", Martha J. Farah and Cayce J. Hook
The Association Between P3 Amplitude at Age 11 and Criminal Offending at Age 23, Yu Gao, Adrian Raine, Peter H. Venables, and Sarnoff A. Mednick
Look Again: Effects of Brain Images and Mind-Brain Dualism on Lay Evaluations of Research, Cayce J. Hook and Martha J. Farah
Neuroscience for Educators: What Are They Seeking, and What Are They Finding?, Cayce J. Hook and Martha J. Farah
Objective and Subjective Cognitive Enhancing Effects of Mixed Amphetamine Salts in Healthy People, Irena Ilieva, Joseph Boland, and Martha J. Farah
Law and Neuroscience, Owen D. Jones, Réne Marois, Martha J. Farah, and Henry Greely
Using Brain Imaging for Lie Detection: Where Science, Law, and Policy Collide, Daniel D. Langleben and Jane Campbell Moriarty
The Mind, the Brain, and the Law, Thomas Nadelhoffer, Dena Gromet, Geoffrey P. Goodwin, Eddy Nahmias, Chandra Sripada, and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Preclinical Alzheimer Disease - The Challenges Ahead, Reisa A. Sperling, Jason Karlawish, and Keith A. Johnson
Papers from 2012
From Neural Responses to Population Behavior: Neural Focus Group Predicts Population-Level Media Effects, Emily B. Falk, Elliot T. Berkman, and Matthew D. Lieberman
Getting the Word Out: Neural Correlates of Enthusiastic Message Propagation, Emily B. Falk, Matthew Brook O'Donnell, and Matthew D. Liberman
Review of Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America, Martha J. Farah
The Puzzle of Neuroimaging and Psychiatric Diagnosis: Technology and Nosology in an Evolving Discipline, Martha J. Farah and Seth J Gillihan
Biomarkers Unbound - The Supreme Court's Ruling on Diagnostic-Test Patents, Aaron S. Kesselheim and Jason Karlawish
Legal Regulation of Addictive Substances and Addiction, Stephen Morse
New Therapies, Old Problems, or, A Plea for Neuromodesty, Stephen J. Morse
Increased Executive Functioning, Attention, and Cortical Thickness in White-Collar Criminals, Adrian Raine, William S. Laufer, Yaling Yang, Katherine L. Narr, Paul Thompson, and Arthur W. Toga
Neuroscience, Ethics, and National Security: The State of the Art, Michael N. Tennison and Jonathan D. Moreno
Papers from 2011
Brain Branding: When Neuroscience and Commerce Collide, Bree Chancellor and Anjan Chatterjee
Neuroaesthetics: A Coming of Age Story, Anjan Chatterjee
Artistic Production Following Brain Damage: A Study of Three Artists, Anjan Chatterjee, Bianca Bromberger, William B. Smith II, Rebecca Sternschein, and Page Widick
Overcorrecting the Neuroenhancement Discussion, Martha J. Farah
Avoiding Irrational NeuroLaw Exuberance: A Plea for Neuromodesty, Stephen Morse
Gene-Environment Interactions, Criminal Responsibility, and Sentencing, Stephen Morse
Genetics and Criminal Responsibility, Stephen J. Morse
Biosocial Interactions and Correlates of Crime, Anna Rudo-Hutt, Yu Gao, Andrea Glenn, Melissa Peskin, Yaling Yang, and Adrian Raine
Relative Function: Nuclear Brain Imaging in United States Courts, Susan E. Rushing and Daniel D. Langleben
Are Prescription Stimulants “Smart Pills”?, M. Elizabeth Smith and Martha J. Farah
Papers from 2010
Morality: My brain made me do it, Martha J. Farah
Neuroethics, An Introduction with Readings, Martha J. Farah
Brain Imaging and Brain Privacy: A Realistic Concern?, Martha J. Farah, M. Elizabeth Smith, Cyrena Gawuga, Dennis Lindsell, and Dean Foster
Socioeconomic status and the brain: mechanistic insights from human and animal research, Daniel A. Hackman, Martha J. Farah, and Michael J. Meaney
Papers from 2009
Correspondence: A Medical View of Potential Adverse Effects, Anjan Chatterjee
Is it acceptable for people to take methylphenidate to enhance performance? No, Anjan Chatterjee
Mind, Brain, and Education in Socioeconomic Context, Martha J. Farah
Neuroscience and the Soul, Martha J. Farah and Nancey Murphy
Psychopathy and instrumental aggression: Evolutionary, neurobiological, and legal perspectives, Andrea L. Glenn and Adrian Raine
The Neural Correlates of Moral Decision-Making in Psychopathy, Andrea L. Glenn, Adrian Raine, and R.A. Schug
The Perceived Objectivity of Ethical Beliefs: Psychological Findings and Implications for Public Policy, Geoffrey P. Goodwin and John M. Darley
Reduced prefrontal and temporal processing and recall of high "sensation value" ads, Daniel D. Langleben, James W. Loughead, Kosha Ruparel, Jonathan G. Hakun, Samantha Busch-Winokur, Matthew B. Holloway, Andrew A. Strasser, Joseph N. Cappella, and Caryn Lerman
Papers from 2008
Denying autonomy in order to create it: the paradox of forcing treatment on addicts, Arthur Caplan
Good, better, best?, Arthur Caplan
Framing Pains, Pills, and Professors, Anjan Chatterjee
Neuroethics and the Problem of Other Minds: Implications of Neuroscience for the Moral Status of Brain-Damaged Patients and Nonhuman Animals, Martha J. Farah
That Little Matter of Consciousness, Martha J. Farah
When we enhance cognition with Adderall, do we sacrifice creativity? A preliminary study, Martha J. Farah
State-of-Science Review: SR-E29, Brain-Computer Interfaces and Cognitive Neural Prostheses, Kenneth R. Foster
Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy, Henry Greely, Philip Campbell, Barbara Sahakian, John Harris, Ronald C. Kessler, Michael Gazzaniga, and Martha J. Farah
Measuring Decision-Making Capacity in Cognitively Impaired Individuals, Jason Karlawish
Assessing the Capacity to Make Everyday Decisions: A Guide for Clinicians and an Agenda for Future Research, James M. Lai and Jason Karlawish