Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Part I. Neurotechnology : today and tomorrow. When emerging biomedical technologies converge or collide / Debra J.H. Mathews -- Emerging neuroimaging technologies : toward future personalized diagnostics, prognosis, targeted intervention, and ethical challenges / Urs Ribary, Alex L. MacKay, Alexander Rauscher [and 10 others] -- Incidental findings : current ethical debates and future challenges in advanced neuroimaging / Lorna M. Gibson, Cathie L.M. Sudlow, and Joanna M. Wardlaw -- Vulnerability, youth, and homelessness : ethical considerations on the roles of technology in the lives of adolescents and young adults / Niranjan S. Karnik -- The neuroethical future of wearable and mobile health technology / Karola V. Kreitmair and Mildred K. Cho -- Technologies of the extended mind : defining the issues / Peter B. Reiner and Saskia K. Nagel -- Neuromodulation ethics : preparing for brain- computer interface medicine / Eran Klein -- Integrating ethics into neurotechnology research and development : the US National Institutes of Health BRAIN Initiative® / Khara M. Ramos and Walter J. Koroshetz -- Part II. Neuroethics at the frontline of healthcare. What do new neuroscience discoveries in children mean for their open future? / Cheryl D. Lew -- Neuroprognostication after severe brain injury in children: science fiction or plausible reality? / Sarah S. Welsh, Geneviève Du Pont-Thibodeau, and Mathew P. Kirschen -- No pain no gain : a neuroethical place for hypnosis in invasive intervention / Elvira V. Lang -- Placebo beyond controls : the neuroscience and ethics of navigating a new understanding of placebo therapy / Karen S. Rommelfanger -- Ethical challenges of modern psychiatric neurosurgery / Sabine Müller -- At the crossroads of civic engagement and evidence-based medicine : lessons learned from the chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency experience / Shelly Benjaminy and Anthony Traboulsee -- Ethical dilemmas in neurodegenerative disease : respecting patients at the twilight of agency / Agnieszka Jaworska -- Anticipating a therapeutically elusive neurodegenerative condition : ethical considerations for the preclinical detection of Alzheimer's disease / Hervé Chneiweiss -- When bright lines blur : deconstructing distinctions between disorders of consciousness / David B. Fischer and Robert D. Truog -- Brain death and the definition of death / James L. Bernat -- Part III. Social, legal, and regulatory frameworks : lessons of the past guide policy for the future. Minors and incompetent adults : a tale of two populations / Vasiliki Rahimzadeh, Karine Sénécal, Erika Kleiderman, and Bartha M. Knoppers -- Behavioral and brain-based research on free moral agency : threatening or empowering? / Eric Racine and Veljko Dubljević -- Cognitive enhancement of today may be the normal of tomorrow / Fabrice Jotterand -- Environmental neuroethics : setting the foundations / Laura Y. Cabrera -- First Nations and environmental neuroethics : perspectives on brain health from a world of change / Jordan Tesluk, Judy Illes, and Ralph Matthews -- The neurobiology of addiction as a window on voluntary control of behavior and moral responsibility / Steven E. Hyman -- Looking to the future : clinical and policy implications of the brain disease model of addiction / Adrian Carter and Wayne Hall -- Concussion, neuroethics, and sport : policies of the past do not suffice for the future / Brad Partridge and Wayne Hall -- Security threat versus aggregated truths : ethical issues in the use of neuroscience and neurotechnology for national security / Michal N. Tennison, James Giordano, and Jonathan D. Moreno -- Communicating about the brain in the digital era / Julie M. Robillard and Emily Wight -- The impact of neuroscience in the law : how perceptions of control and responsibility affect the definition of disability / Jennifer A. Chandler -- Neuroethics and global mental health : establishing a dialogue / Dan J. Stein and James Giordano -- Part IV. Epilogue. Neuroethics and neurotechnology : instrumentality and human rights / Joseph J. Fins.

Over the last decade, there have been unparalleled advances in our understanding of brain sciences. In this volume on neuroethics, a distinguished group of contributors from a range of disciplines discuss the ethical implications of this newfound knowledge and set out the many necessary considerations for the future.