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The following sources do not necessarily reflect the Center's position or values. These sources, however, are excellent resources for familiarizing oneself with the all sides of the issue.

General Articles
Farah Martha J. “Emerging Ethical Issues in Neuroscience.” Nature Neuroscience 5 (2002): 1123-1129.

__________. “Neuroethics: The Practical and the Philosophical.” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 9 (2005): 34-40.

__________. “Social, Legal, and Ethical Implications of Cognitive Neuroscience: ‘Neuroethics’ for Short. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 19 (2007): 363-364.

Garrett, Jennie M., and Stephanie J. Bird. “Ethical Issues in Communicating Science.” Science and Engineering Ethics 6 (2000), 435-442.

Lucretius. “Does Neuroscience Refute Ethics?” Ludwig von Mises Institute. Entry posted August 24, 2005. http://www.mises.org/story/1893 (accessed April 29, 2009).

Free Will
Soon , Chun Siong, Marcel Brass, Hans-Jochen Heinz, and John-Dylan Haynes. “Unconscious Determinants of Free Decisions in the Human Brain.” Nature Neuroscience 11 (2008): 543-545.

Moral Responsibility and the Law
Eastman, Nigel, and Colin Campbell. “Neuroscience and Legal Determination of Criminal Responsibility.” Nature Reviews Neuroscience 7 (2006): 311-8.

Naylor, Edmund, Daniel Wood,  Sheheryar Kabraji, and Julian Savulescu. “Neuroscience, Ethics, and the Law.” Student BMJ 16 (2008):56-57. http://archive.student.bmj.com/issues/08/02/life/056.php (accessed April 29, 2009).

Sifferd, Katrina L. “Nanotechnology and the Attribution of Responsibility.” Nanotechnology Law and Business 5 (2008): 177-190.

Imaging of Moral Reasoning
Cohen, M.X., A.S. Heller, and C. Ranganath. “Functional Connectivity with Anterior Cingulate and Orbitorontal Cortices during Decision-making.” Cognive Brain Research 23 (2005): 61-70.

Greene, Joshua D. “Why Are VMPFC Patients More Utilitarian? A Dual Process Theory of Moral Judgment.” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 11(2007): 322-323.

Hsu, Ming, Cédric Anen, and Steven R. Quartz. “The Right and the Good: Distributive Justice and Neural Encoding of Equity and Efficiency.” Science, May 23, 2008.

Koenigs,  Michard, Liane Young, Ralph Adolphs, Daniel Tranel, Fiery Cushman, Marc Hauser, and Antonio Damasio. “Damage to the Prefrontal Cortex Increases Utilitarian Moral Judgments.” Nature 446 (2007): 908-911.

Moll, Jorge, and Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza. “Moral Judgments, Emotions and the Utilitarian Brain.” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 11(2007): 319-321.

Detection of Truth and Concealment
McKenna, Phil. “Can a Brain Scan Prove You’re Telling the Truth? New Scientist, February 10, 2007.

Detection of Belief and Bias
Harris, Sam, Sameer A. Sheth, and Mark S. Cohen. “Functional Neuroimaging of Belief, Disbelief, and Uncertainty.” Annals of Neurology 63 (2007): 141-147.

Moll, Jorge, Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza, Fernanda Tovar Moll, Fátima Azevedo Ignácio, Ivanei E. Bramati, Egas M. Caparelli-Dáquer, and Paul J. Eslinger. “The Moral Affiliations of Disgust: A Functional MRI Study.” Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology 18 (2005): 68-78.

Public Media
Brooks, David. “The Neural Buddhists.” New York Times, May 13, 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/opinion/13brooks.html (accessed April 29, 2009).

Rosen, Jeffrey. “The Brain on the Stand.” New York Times, March 11, 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/magazine/11Neurolaw.t.html?ref=magazine (accessed April 29, 2009).

Tallis, Raymond. “Why Blame Me? It Was All My Brain’s Fault.” Times Online, October 24, 2007. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/a... (accessed April 29, 2009).

“All on the mind.” Economist, May 22, 2008. http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11402761 (accessed April 29, 2009).

“Smart drugs.” Economist, May 22, 2008. http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11412603 (accessed April 29, 2009).

Updated April 2009