The Right to Mental Integrity: Multidimensional, Multilayered and Extended - Neuroethics

But because of its many protective systems, the brain cannot be manipulated like a chemical in a test tube. It reacts to such intrusions on many levels by increasing or decreasing other chemicals and neurotransmitters in its infinitely complex electro-chemical conversation, a dialogue that goes far beyond our current ability to even track, let alon

The basic point was that we should reject the very idea of a ‘normal’ brain and of the ‘neurotypical’ as an ideal. Instead, it implied viewing mental functioning more in the way we view biodiversity. In this view, it takes all kinds of minds for society to function, and thus normality should not be assumed to be superior to divergence. Rather, ther

When prefrontal regions are either surgically removed or fall prey to some calamity, patients continue to see, hear, and sense. Deficits affect the higher mental faculties, resulting in apathy, a lack of curiosity about the world, and a disability in planning, introspecting, reasoning, and regulating emotions. Patients perseverate or consistently m

neurons, simply via the nature of their anatomy and physiology, were implementing the rules of logic.