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Neuroethics (Outline (Concerned w/ ethical, legal and social implications…
Neuroethics
Outline
Concerned w/ ethical, legal and social implications of neuroscience
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Single genes = 2-4%, Brain imaging = 36% - variance
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Brain Enhancement
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Cognitive Enhancements
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Healthy = attention, learning, high cog function
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Problems
Individual
- Improving deficits or enhancing normal
- LT risks? Outweigh benefits
- Evolutionary > cog limitations for reason?
Society
- Enhancement not fairly distributed
- Exacerbation of inequalities
- Coercion
- Raise standards of normality
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MRI - diagnostic tool
Lockwood et al
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Antisocial, lack of empathy, diminished guilt, risk of psychopathy
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Conduct problems = lower anterior insula, and ACC to seeing pain + correlated(-ive) to callous trait
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MRI - lie detection
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Problems
- Explicitly asked to lie or not
- Brain activity confounded with memory, attention, cognitive load and emotional arousal
- Psychopathy changes responses
- Low sensitivity/specificity
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