David Healy

Professor of Psychiatry
Cardiff University, Wales, UK 
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Bioethical Devils and Neuroscientific Details
In the late 1990s, treatments like Prozac and research on the human genome project appeared to usher in a new human reality with associated bioethical dilemmas. Are bioethicists as likely to be co-opted into the marketing of the new neuroscience and its treatments as they were into the marketing of the SSRIs?
Contrasting current neuroimaging with quantitative electroencephalography, recent deep brain stimulation treatments with the brain stimulation treatments run in Tulane in the 1960s, the emergence biofeedback in the 1960s and neurofeedback this decade this paper will attempt pinpoint the dynamics shaping what happens. Using LSD, ECT and apotemnophilia it will also attempt to mark out the boundaries within which any debate is constrained

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