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20Disentangling Function from Benefit: Participant Perspectives from an Early Feasibility Trial for a Novel Visual Cortical ProsthesisAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience. forthcoming.The field of neurotechnology intervening on blindness is rapidly expanding with several visual neural prostheses currently in development (Lowery 2013; Niketeghad and Pouratian 2019; Ptito et al. 2...
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28“They were already inside my head to begin with”: Trust, Translational Misconception, and Intraoperative Brain ResearchAJOB Empirical Bioethics 14 (2): 111-124. 2023.Background: Patients undergoing invasive neurosurgical procedures offer researchers unique opportunities to study the brain. Deep brain stimulation patients, for example, may participate in research during the surgical implantation of the stimulator device. Although this research raises many ethical concerns, little attention has been paid to basic studies, which offer no therapeutic benefits, and the value of patient-participant perspectives.Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted wi…Read more
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