Bioethics
Online ISSN : 2189-695X
Print ISSN : 1343-4063
ISSN-L : 1343-4063
Neuroethics : towards communicative relation among neuroscience and public
Osamu SAKURATamami FUKUSHI
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2007 Volume 17 Issue 1 Pages 18-27

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Recently studies in brain-imaging and brain-machine/computer interface have made rapid developments. That has caused the increasing of numbers of the incidental findings in which non-medical, PhD scientists incidentally find some diseases in brain of subjects during experimental researches. That requires establishing ethical rule and/or guide especially focused on the research carried by non-medical PhD scholars. Moreover, information of brain might directly represent someone's mental activity much more than genome or other physiological information. The public tend to associate the brain closely to consciousness and self. Instead the current condition of neuroscience seems not to clearly respond to such "need" from the public, this gap may make the situation much worse in "pop" neuroscience. Several of them often emphasize scientifically inaccurate information. We need the constructive perspective to re-design the cross-area of science and public. Effective guideline is needed, as well the research organization which can cross boarders among departments of government and academic societies.
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2007 Japan Association for Bioethics
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