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Papers

(The median citation count of Neuroethics is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Anti-Love Biomedical Intervention and the Necessity of Consent	77
6G and Embodied AI: Benefits and Risks of Increasingly Extended Minds	54
The Ghosts of Psychedelic Science: Haunting and Moral Repair	46
Ethical Complexities and Best Practices in Informed Consent Processes for Psilocybin Services: A Qualitative Study	30
To Live or Not to Live? The Effect of Mind Perception and Judgment Strategies on Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions for Patients in Persistent Vegetative States	25
Transformations, Tensions, and Transgressions: Neuroethical Reflections on Psychedelic Therapies	24
Safeguarding Users of Consumer Mental Health Apps in Research and Product Improvement Studies: an Interview Study	24
What (if anything) morally separates environmental from neurochemical behavioral interventions?	23
Engagement, Exploitation, and Human Intracranial Electrophysiology Research	22
Damage and Restoration of Personal Identity in Deep Brain Stimulation: A Relational Perspective	22
The Psychological Risks of BCI-LLM Cognitive “Enhancement”	18
On the Possibility and Probability of Post-Persons: Neuroenhancements and Moral Status	17
The Unintended Consequences of Chile’s Neurorights Constitutional Reform: Moving beyond Negative Rights to Capabilities	17
Mild Cognitive Impairment in Relation to Alzheimer’s Disease: An Investigation of Principles, Classifications, Ethics, and Problems	17
Protocol for Returning Results in Brain Science Research Targeting Individuals With Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Japan	16
Living With Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease: a Systematic Review and Qualitative Synthesis of Patient Experiences	15
Exploring the Essence of the Freedom of Thought – A Normative Framework for Identifying Undue Mind Interventions	14
Neurorights – Do we Need New Human Rights? A Reconsideration of the Right to Freedom of Thought	12
The Ethical Implications of Illusionism	12
Psychedelics Are Still Not Ethically Exceptional: Rebutting Recent Claims of Uniqueness	11
A Double-Edged Sword: Ethical and Psychological Implications of APOE Genotype Disclosure Across the Lifespan	11
Ethical Challenges of Human-Machine Symbiosis in Brain-Computer Interfaces: Insights from Chinese Experts	11
Mental Integrity in the Attention Economy: in Search of the Right to Attention	11
Recruitment and Engagement of Indigenous Peoples in Brain-Related Health Research	11
Is the Treatment Worse than the Disease?: Key Stakeholders’ Views about the Use of Psychiatric Electroceutical Interventions for Treatment-Resistant Depression	10

Revisiting Maher’s One-Factor Theory of Delusion, Again	10
When Are Psychiatric Patients Considered Less Credible? Implications for the Epistemic Injustice Debate	10
Responsibility, Mental Capacities, and Socially Deprived Offenders	9
The Ethics of Human Brain Organoid Transplantation in Animals	9
Societal Collapse and Intergenerational Disparities in Suffering	9
Limiting the Epistemic Argument Against Retributivism	8
Consciousness Ain’t All That	8
The Role of Family Members in Psychiatric Deep Brain Stimulation Trials: More Than Psychosocial Support	8
A Mixed-methods Study of Deep Brain Stimulation's Temporal Impact on Parkinson’s Disease Patients: Insights from Short-, Medium-, and Long-term Experiences	7
AI Algorithmic Bias, Neurodiscrimination, and Neurorights: Towards Conceptual Clarity in NeuroAI	7
Revolutionizing Brain Research Using Portable MRI in Field Settings: Public Perspectives on the Ethical and Legal Challenges	7
Why We Need Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) in Neuroethics	6
Brain age Prediction and the Challenge of Biological Concepts of Aging	6
One-Factor versus Two-Factor Theory of Delusion: Replies to Sullivan-Bissett and Noordhof	6
Conflicting Interests and New Frontiers: A Role for Virtue Ethics in Cutting Edge Brain Research with Humans	6
The Psychological Process Underlying Attitudes Toward Human-Animal Chimeric Brain Research: An Empirical Investigation	6
Implications of Genetic Explanations for Addiction: Insights from Clinicians	6
Philosophical foundation of the right to mental integrity in the age of neurotechnologies	5
Rationales and Approaches to Protecting Brain Data: a Scoping Review	5
Neurodiversity with Nuance	5
Ethical Implications of the Impact of Fracking on Brain Health	5
Informal Caregivers of Patients with Disorders of Consciousness: a Qualitative Study of Communication Experiences and Information Needs with Physicians	5
Neurotechnological Applications and the Protection of Mental Privacy: An Assessment of Risks	5
The Ethics of Set and Setting in Psychedelic Psychotherapy	4
Practical Guidelines for Supportive Touch in Psychedelic-Assisted and MDMA-Assisted Therapy: A Model for Practitioners and Researchers	4
A Conceptual Framework to Safeguard the Neuroright to Personal Autonomy	4
How to Advance the Debate on the Criminal Responsibility of Antisocial Offenders	3
Why Won’t You Listen To Me? Predictive Neurotechnology and Epistemic Authority	3
"In the spectrum of people who are healthy": Views of individuals at risk of dementia on using neurotechnology for cognitive enhancement	3
A Moratorium on Implantable Non-Medical Neurotech Until Effects on the Mind are Properly Understood	3
What is Being Transferred in Human Head Transplant (HHT)? A Confucian Perspective	3
The Faithful Response to the Comforting Delusion Objection	3
Mitigating Ethical Issues in Training for Psychedelic Therapy	3
Enhanced yet still in Control: Neuroenhancements in the Service of Autonomous Agency	3
Health Aspirations for Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS)	3
The “Wheels That Keep Me Goin’”: Invisible Forms of Support for Brain Pioneers	3
Neuro-Nonsense: Why Ulysses Contracts don't Compute in Brain-Computer Interface Research	2
What Happens After a Neural Implant Study? Neuroethics Expert Workshop on Post-Trial Obligations	2
A Systematic Review on Pediatric Neurological Devices: Ethical, Regulatory, and Technical Considerations	2
Perceptions on the Ethical and Legal Principles that Influence Global Brain Data Governance	2
“You shall have the thought”: habeas cogitationem as a New Legal Remedy to Enforce Freedom of Thinking and Neurorights	2
Neurorights as Hohfeldian Privileges	2
Hope and Optimism in Pediatric Deep Brain Stimulation: Key Stakeholder Perspectives	2
Psychedelic Therapy as Form of Life	2
Revisiting Maher’s One-Factor Theory of Delusion	2
A Zhuangzian Perspective on Virtual Reality and Technological Enhancement of Morality in Sports	2
Correction to: Who does Neuroethics Scholarship Address, and What Does it Recommend? A Content Analysis of Selected Abstracts from the International Neuroethics Society Annual Meetings	2
Stream of Consciousness: Some Propositions and Reflections	2
“Am I locked-in?” Illness Trajectories, Medical Terminology, and the Experience of the Locked-in State in Japan and Europe	1
Who does Neuroethics Scholarship Address, and What Does it Recommend? A Content Analysis of Selected Abstracts from the International Neuroethics Society Annual Meetings	1

Beyond Brain Data: An Enactive Approach to Brain-Computer Interface-Mediated Mind Reading and Mental Privacy	1
Affect and Human Electrophysiological Research	1
The Right to Mental Integrity: Multidimensional, Multilayered and Extended	1
Towards a Governance Framework for Brain Data	1
Normality and the Treatment-Enhancement Distinction	1
The Impossibility of a Moral Right to Privacy	1
Justice, Nonmaleficence, and Autonomy: Neuroethical Considerations of Non-Medical Cannabis Use by Epilepsy Neurosurgical Candidates	1
Cognitive Warfare Through the Lens of Critical Neuroscience: Data, Theory, and Values	1
Privacy in Perspective: Research Participants’ Priorities and Concerns Related to Sharing Data Generated in Human Neuroscience Studies	1
Precautionary Principle and Post-Mortem Brain Resuscitation	1
Literary Neuroexistentialism: Coming to Terms with Materialism and Finding Meaning in the Age of Neuroscience through Literature	1
Dementia, Authenticity, and the Moral Weight of Preferences	1
To Explant or not to Explant Neural Implants: an Empirical Study into Deliberations of Dutch Research Ethics Committees	1
When the Trial Ends: The Case for Post-Trial Provisions in Clinical Psychedelic Research	1
How Do Psychedelics Reduce Fear of Death?	1
When Do People Have an Obligation Not to Tic? Blame, Free Will, and Moral Character Judgments of People with Tourette’s Syndrome	1