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Direct Brain Interventions to “Treat” Disfavored Human Behaviors: Ethical and Social Issues
Author(s) -
Greely H T
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.941
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1532-6535
pISSN - 0009-9236
DOI - 10.1038/clpt.2011.292
Subject(s) - psychological intervention , psychology , clinical pharmacology , neuroscience , medicine , pharmacology , psychiatry
As neuroscience learns more about the causes of human behaviors, it will give us new ways to change those behaviors. When behaviors are caused by “brain diseases,” effective actions that intervene directly in the brain will be readily accepted, but what about direct brain interventions that treat brain‐based causes of socially disfavored behaviors that are not generally viewed as diseases? Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (2012); 91 2, 163–165. doi: 10.1038/clpt.2011.292