NEUROETHICS

Neuroethics encompasses a wide array of ethical issues emerging from different branches of clinical neuroscience (neurology, psychiatry, psychopharmacology) and basic neuroscience (cognitive neuroscience, affective neuroscience).

These include ethical problems raised by advances in functional neuroimaging, brain implants, brain-machine interfaces and psychopharmacology as well as by our growing understanding of the neural bases of behavior, personality, consciousness, and states of spiritual transcendence.

What is this website?

Neuroethics.upenn.edu is a source of information on neuroethics, provided by Martha J. Farah of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania.

Here you will find:

summaries of neuroethical issues prepared expressly for this website
pointers to the literature with links to downloadable articles or article abstracts
links to other relevant websites on neuroethics, neuroscience, and policy
other sources of education and amusement, including neuroethics course syllabi, a neuroethics conference calendar, and a listing of novels and films that deal with neuroethical issues.
information on the Penn Neuroethics Program.

Our goal is to inform students and professionals in bioethics, neuroscience, medicine, business, education and law, and all other interested readers who surf our way.

Penn Neuroethics Program

A separate section of this website is devoted to information about neuroethics at Pennl. Here you can find out about faculty with active research in neuroethics, our speaker series, and an open-access repository of neuroethics articles by Penn authors.

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