ReviewFrontiers in human neuroscience2017
Moral Enhancement Using Non-invasive Brain Stimulation.
Review in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Gender and Hemispheric Asymmetries in Acquired Sociopathy.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Pooled it
- Human Enhancement: A Conceptual Scoping Review.The Journal of medicine and philosophy · 2026Article
- Biochemical Pathways of Neuroplasticity in Sport Skill Acquisition: From Neuroscience to Coaching Practice.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- The ethical, legal and social issues of neuroergonomics in the workplace.Frontiers in neuroergonomics · 2026Article
- Forensic neurology: a distinct subspecialty at the intersection of neurology, neuroscience and law.Nature reviews. Neurology · 2024Review
- Can we rewire criminal mind via non-invasive brain stimulation of prefrontal cortex? Insights from clinical, forensic and social cognition studies.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Transcranial electric stimulation as a neural interface to gain insight on human brain functions: current knowledge and future perspective.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2022Review
- Cultivating conscience: Moral neurohabilitation of adolescents and young adults with conduct and/or antisocial personality disorders.Bioethics · 2021Article
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- "Self-Neuroenhancement": The Last Frontier of Noninvasive Brain Stimulation?Journal of clinical neurology (Seoul, Korea) · 2020Article
- Neuroimaging Abnormalities in Neurological Patients with Criminal Behavior.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2018Review
- Low intensity transcranial electric stimulation: Safety, ethical, legal regulatory and application guidelines.Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2017Review
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Abstract
Biomedical enhancement refers to the use of biomedical interventions to improve capacities beyond normal, rather than to treat deficiencies due to diseases. Enhancement can target physical or cognitive capacities, but also complex human behaviors such as morality. However, the complexity of normal moral behavior makes it unlikely that morality is a single capacity that can be deficient or enhanced. Instead, our central hypothesis will be that moral behavior results from multiple, interacting cognitive-affective networks in the brain. First, we will test this hypothesis by reviewing evidence for modulation of moral behavior using non-invasive brain stimulation. Next, we will discuss how this evidence affects ethical issues related to the use of moral enhancement. We end with the conclusion that while brain stimulation has the potential to alter moral behavior, such alteration is unlikely to improve moral behavior in all situations, and may even lead to less morally desirable behavior in some instances.
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