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ArticleBrain communications2025

The risk of neurotechnology as an instrument of colonialism.

Judy Illes, Makarena Dudley, Lucia Machova Urdzikova, Ioana Podina, Monique Pyrrho

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Article in Brain communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Judy IllesNeuroethics Canada, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 2B5.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4791-8084
Makarena DudleyCentre for Brain Research, The University of Auckland, Auckland 1023, New Zealand.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6964-6665
Lucia Machova UrdzikovaDepartment of Neuroregeneration, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Prague 142 20, Czech Republic.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7622-5837
Ioana PodinaLaboratory of Cognitive Clinical Sciences, University of Bucharest, Bucharest 050657, Romania.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0075-4908
Monique PyrrhoInternational Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Brasilia, Brasilia 70910-900, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1000-6361

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Illes et al. focus on strategies and solutions to prevent neurotechnologies from being used to perpetuate colonial power dynamics.

Identifiers

PMID40313427
PMCPMC12043054

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