Neuroethics, Research Ethics
Mapping the Moral Brain: Probing the Architecture of Ethical Decision-Making with TMS
There is growing research interest in the prevalence of moral injury – a profound psychological harm caused by judgments...
Subject: Neuroethics
Artificial Intelligence, Neuroethics
When the Military Brain Merges with an AI-Neural Interface
In John Scalzi’s sci-fi novel Old Man’s War, soldiers receive the BrainPal, a neural interface that boosts thinking and ...
Editorial-AJOB, Ethics, Neuroethics, Philosophy & Ethics
The Grey Matters
This editorial appears in the September 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics As much as humans year...
BioethicsTV, neurodiversity
Getting it Right: “The Pitt’s” Depiction of Neurodiversity
A decade ago, we wrote an AJOB blog post critiquing the then-new medical drama Chicago Med. We took the pilot to task fo...
Neuroethics
The Need for Neuro-Computational Ethics
Author, Veljko Dubljević, PhD (NC State University) will be the new Editor in Chief of American Journal of Bioethics – N...
Neuroethics
American Association for the Advancement of Science
A summary report of an invitational workshop convened by the Scientific Freedom, Responsibility and Law Program entitled...
Publish date:Global Ethics, Neuroethics, Race, Social Justice
Engaging Social Justice: An Expanded Vision for Neuroethics
by Nicole Martinez-Martin, JD, PhD; Laura Y. Cabrera, PhD and Timothy E. Brown, PhD The novelist Arundhati Roy wrote tha...
Neuroethics, Research Ethics, Technology
Human Brain Surrogates Research: The Onrushing Ethical Dilemma
Abstract Human brain research is moving into a dilemma. The best way to understand how the human brain works is to study...
Publish date:Editorial-AJOB, Neuroethics
Ethically Problematic Medical Device Representation
This piece appears as an editorial in the August 2020 issue of The American Journal of Bioethics. You can read this piec...
Neuroethics, Organ Transplant & Donation, Philosophy & Ethics
Legal and Ethical Considerations for Requiring Consent for Apnea Testing in Brain Death Determination
Abstract The past decade has witnessed escalating legal and ethical challenges to the diagnosis of death by neurologic c...
Publish date:Informed Consent, Neuroethics, Philosophy & Ethics
Brain Death Testing: Time for National Uniformity
Abstract It is time to revise the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) to assure a consistent nationwide approach t...
Publish date:Neuroethics, Philosophy & Ethics, Technology
Artificial Intelligence in Service of Human Needs: Pragmatic First Steps Toward an Ethics for Semi-Autonomous Agents
Abstract The ethics of robots and artificial intelligence (AI) typically centers on “giving ethics” to as-yet imaginary ...
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