Recent advances in imaging and acting on the brain have raised profound ethical challenges leading to a new discipline, neuroethics. In this series of events, we collaborate with pioneers in the field of neuroethics to explore new possibilities and potential dangers in public and private life. At issue is our traditional understanding of human abilities, consciousness, responsibility and morality.

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  The Clever Pill

  9 February 2012. The ethics of 'smart drugs'.

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  Conscious?

  23 February 2012. Present dilemmas and future hopes for understanding borderline consciousness.

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  The Legal Mindfield

  8 March 2011. Brain imaging and the law.