
Vol. 1 No. 1 | January 2010
ISBN: 2150-7740
editorial.
Welcome to the New, Independent, AJOB Neuroscience
Paul Root Wolpe
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Hysteria and the Varieties of Deception
Richard A. Kanaan
Hysteria is thought to involve the unconscious production of symptoms that resemble neurological disorders. However, it is not usually possible to distinguish this from deception, leading some authors to advocate dropping the distinction. In this paper, I argue that deception is not a unitary concept, so that hysteria may indeed involve a form of deception without necessarily the ethical implicati...
Click for MoreNegotiating the Relationship Between Addiction, Ethics, and Brain Science
Daniel Z. Buchman, Wayne Skinner & Judy Illes
Advances in neuroscience are changing how mental health issues such as addiction are understood and addressed as a brain disease. Although a brain disease model legitimizes addiction as a medical condition, it promotes neuro-essentialist thinking and categorical ideas of responsibility and free choice, and undermines the complexity involved in its emergence. We propose a “biopsychosocial systems...
Click for MoreNeuroenhancement in Young People: Proposal for Research, Policy, and Clinical Management
Ilina Singh & Kelly J. Kelleher
Psychotropic neuroenhancement by young people under 18 is growing, and is certain to increase further with the availability of effective drugs and increasing tolerance for neuroenhancement practices. Use of these agents by young people for purposes of enhancement has social and ethical implications that require scrutiny and analysis. It is particularly important that these analyses do not simply t...
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