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63Neuroscience research has improved our understanding of the long term consequences of sports-related concussion, but ethical issues related to the prevention and management of concussion are an underdeveloped area of inquiry. This article exposes several examples of conflicts of interest that have arisen and been tolerated in the management of concussion in sport (particularly professional football codes) regarding the use of computerized neuropsychological (NP) tests for diagnosing concussion. …Read more
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50Public Understandings of Addiction: Where do Neurobiological Explanations Fit?Neuroethics 7 (1): 51-62. 2013.Developments in the field of neuroscience, according to its proponents, offer the prospect of an enhanced understanding and treatment of addicted persons. Consequently, its advocates consider that improving public understanding of addiction neuroscience is a desirable aim. Those critical of neuroscientific approaches, however, charge that it is a totalising, reductive perspective–one that ignores other known causes in favour of neurobiological explanations. Sociologist Nikolas Rose has argued th…Read more
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28Avoiding Selective Ethical Objections to NudgesAmerican Journal of Bioethics 12 (2): 12-14. 2012.The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 12, Issue 2, Page 12-14, February 2012
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275Australian University Students' Attitudes Towards the Acceptability and Regulation of Pharmaceuticals to Improve Academic PerformanceNeuroethics 6 (1): 197-205. 2012.There is currently little empirical information about attitudes towards cognitive enhancement - the use of pharmaceutical drugs to enhance normal brain functioning. It is claimed this behaviour most commonly occurs in students to aid studying. We undertook a qualitative assessment of attitudes towards cognitive enhancement by conducting 19 semi-structured interviews with Australian university students. Most students considered cognitive enhancement to be unacceptable, in part because they believ…Read more
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20In the Face of Uncertainty About the Risks of Low-Level Drinking, Abstinence Is Prudent, Not Misogynistic, AdviceAmerican Journal of Bioethics 11 (12): 66-67. 2011.The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 11, Issue 12, Page 66-67, December 2011
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62Begging important questions about cognitive enhancement, againAmerican Journal of Bioethics 11 (1). 2011.This Article does not have an abstract
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116Ethical Issues Raised by Proposals to Treat Addiction Using Deep Brain StimulationNeuroethics 4 (2): 129-142. 2010.Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been proposed as a potential treatment of drug addiction on the basis of its effects on drug self-administration in animals and on addictive behaviours in some humans treated with DBS for other psychiatric or neurological conditions. DBS is seen as a more reversible intervention than ablative neurosurgery but it is nonetheless a treatment that carries significant risks. A review of preclinical and clinical evidence for the use of DBS to treat addiction suggests t…Read more
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59Ethical Concerns in the Community About Technologies to Extend Human Life SpanAmerican Journal of Bioethics 9 (12): 68-76. 2009.Debates about the ethical and social implications of research that aims to extend human longevity by intervening in the ageing process have paid little attention to the attitudes of members of the general public. In the absence of empirical evidence, conflicting assumptions have been made about likely public attitudes towards life-extension. In light of recent calls for greater public involvement in such discussions, this target article presents findings from focus groups and individual intervie…Read more
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29Mapping Community Concerns About Radical Extensions of Human Life ExpectancyAmerican Journal of Bioethics 9 (12): 4-5. 2009.Debates about the ethical and social implications of research that aims to extend human longevity by intervening in the ageing process have paid little attention to the attitudes of members of the general public. In the absence of empirical evidence, conflicting assumptions have been made about likely public attitudes towards life-extension. In light of recent calls for greater public involvement in such discussions, this target article presents findings from focus groups and individual intervie…Read more
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94Addiction, neuroscience and ethicsAddiction 98 (7): 867-870. 2003.If one believes that the brain is, in some as yet unspecified way, the organ of mind and behaviour, then all human behaviour has a neurobiological basis. Neuroscience research over the past several decades has provided more specific reasons for believing that many addictive phenomena have a neurobiological basis. The major psychoactive drugs of dependence have been shown to act on neurotransmitter systems in the brain (Nutt 1997; Koob 2000); common neurochemical mechanisms underlie many of the r…Read more
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78The social implications of neurobiological explanations of resistible compulsionsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 7 (1). 2007.The authors comments on several articles on addiction. Research suggests that addicted individuals have substantial impairments in cognitive control of behavior. The authors maintain that a proper study of addiction must include a neurobiological model of addiction to draw the attention of bioethicists and addiction neurobiologists. They also state that more addiction neuroscientists like S. E. Hyman are needed as they understand the limits of their research. Accession Number: 24077921; Authors:…Read more
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23Debunking alarmist objections to the pharmacological prevention of ptsdAmerican Journal of Bioethics 7 (9). 2007.No abstract
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20Scare-Mongering and the Anticipatory Ethics of Experimental TechnologiesAmerican Journal of Bioethics 9 (5): 47-48. 2009.
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26Direct-to-Consumer Genome-Wide Scans: Astrologicogenomics or Simple Scams?American Journal of Bioethics 9 (6-7): 54-56. 2009.No abstract
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32Ethical Guidelines for Genetic Research on Alcohol Addiction and Its ApplicationsKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 28 (1): 1-22. 2018.The misuse of alcohol inflicts a major toll on individual users, their families, and the wider society. This includes disruptions of family life, violence, absenteeism and problems in the workplace, child neglect and abuse, and excess morbidity and mortality. The World Health Organization estimates that alcohol ranks eighth among global risk factors for death and is the third leading global risk factor for disease and disability. In the United States, alcohol dependence affects four to five perc…Read more
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40Viet Nam has experienced rapid social change over the last decade, with a remarkable decline in fertility to just below replacement level. The combination of fertility decline, son preference, antenatal sex determination using ultrasound and sex selective abortion are key factors driving increased sex ratios at birth in favour of boys in some Asian countries. Whether or not this is taking place in Viet Nam as well is the subject of heightened debate. In this paper, we analyse the nature and dete…Read more
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75Drug-Induced Impulse Control Disorders: A Prospectus for Neuroethical AnalysisNeuroethics 4 (2): 91-102. 2010.There is growing evidence that dopamine replacement therapy (DRT) used to treat Parkinson’s Disease can cause compulsive behaviours and impulse control disorders (ICDs), such as pathological gambling, compulsive buying and hypersexuality. Like more familiar drug-based forms of addiction, these iatrogenic disorders can cause significant harm and distress for sufferers and their families. In some cases, people treated with DRT have lost their homes and businesses, or have been prosecuted for crimi…Read more