Psychiatry

New psychiatry study results reported from University of Heidelberg

Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, January 19th, 2007

Current study results from the report, "Ethical issues in neuroscience," have been published. "The study gives an overview of ethical questions raised by the progress of neuroscience in identifying and intervening in neural correlates of the mind. Ethical problems resulting from brain research have induced the emergence of a new discipline termed neuroethics," investigators in Heidelberg, Germany report.

"Critical questions concern issues, such as prediction of disease, psychopharmacological enhancement of attention, memory or mood, and technologies such as psychosurgery, deep-brain stimulation or brain implants. Such techniques are capable of affecting the individual's...

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Source: Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly (2007-01-19)

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