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January 27, 2006
Neurological diversity
In his The Pulse article Brussels Meets the Minds of January 25th, Anders Sandberg examines the results of a citizen’s panel of the "Meeting of Minds" project. It delivered its final report on brain science to the European Parliament on January 23rd.
Sandberg discusses the opportunities for creating trust and compliance with the citizenship for new findings in neuroscience given by citizens' panels.
He also finds that the panel's demands for strengthening patients' rights, enabling informed choices and consent, improving access and helping low-profit research are feasible- but also that its recognition of a neurological diversity in population might be a very radical step towards cognitive enhancements while also bringing a problematic discussion on relativism in mental health treatment.
Posted by Waldemar at January 27, 2006 01:42 PM