ArticleCambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees2016
Deep Brain Stimulation, Continuity over Time, and the True Self.
Article in Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Current Neuroethical Perspectives on Deep Brain Stimulation and Neuromodulation for Neuropsychiatric Disorders: A Scoping Review of the Past 10 Years.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Withering Minds: towards a unified embodied mind theory of personal identity for understanding dementia.Journal of medical ethics · 2023Article
- Memory Modification and Authenticity: A Narrative Approach.Neuroethics · 2022Article
- Clarifying the Normative Significance of 'Personality Changes' Following Deep Brain Stimulation.Science and engineering ethics · 2020Article
- Deep brain stimulation and revising the Mental Health Act: the case for intervention-specific safeguards.The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science · 2019Article
- Deep Brain Stimulation in Psychiatry: Mechanisms, Models, and Next-Generation Therapies.The Psychiatric clinics of North America · 2018Review
- Is the Personal Identity Debate a "Threat" to Neurosurgical Patients? A Reply to Müller et al.Neuroethics · 2018Article
- Deep Brain Stimulation, Authenticity and Value.Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees · 2017Article
- Researcher Views on Changes in Personality, Mood, and Behavior in Next-Generation Deep Brain Stimulation.AJOB neuroscienceArticle
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Abstract
One of the topics that often comes up in ethical discussions of deep brain stimulation (DBS) is the question of what impact DBS has, or might have, on the patient's self. This is often understood as a question of whether DBS poses a threat to personal identity, which is typically understood as having to do with psychological and/or narrative continuity over time. In this article, we argue that the discussion of whether DBS is a threat to continuity over time is too narrow. There are other questions concerning DBS and the self that are overlooked in discussions exclusively focusing on psychological and/or narrative continuity. For example, it is also important to investigate whether DBS might sometimes have a positive (e.g., a rehabilitating) effect on the patient's self. To widen the discussion of DBS, so as to make it encompass a broader range of considerations that bear on DBS's impact on the self, we identify six features of the commonly used concept of a person's "true self." We apply these six features to the relation between DBS and the self. And we end with a brief discussion of the role DBS might play in treating otherwise treatment-refractory anorexia nervosa. This further highlights the importance of discussing both continuity over time and the notion of the true self.
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