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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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Anti-Love Biomedical Intervention and the Necessity of Consent	56
The Ghosts of Psychedelic Science: Haunting and Moral Repair	50
Ethical Complexities and Best Practices in Informed Consent Processes for Psilocybin Services: A Qualitative Study	31
6G and Embodied AI: Benefits and Risks of Increasingly Extended Minds	28
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	27
Transformations, Tensions, and Transgressions: Neuroethical Reflections on Psychedelic Therapies	25
On the Possibility and Probability of Post-Persons: Neuroenhancements and Moral Status	25
Engagement, Exploitation, and Human Intracranial Electrophysiology Research	25
The Unintended Consequences of Chile’s Neurorights Constitutional Reform: Moving beyond Negative Rights to Capabilities	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?	22
Damage and Restoration of Personal Identity in Deep Brain Stimulation: A Relational Perspective	18
The Psychological Risks of BCI-LLM Cognitive “Enhancement”	17
Mild Cognitive Impairment in Relation to Alzheimer’s Disease: An Investigation of Principles, Classifications, Ethics, and Problems	16
Protocol for Returning Results in Brain Science Research Targeting Individuals With Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Japan	15
The Ethical Implications of Illusionism	14
Living With Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease: a Systematic Review and Qualitative Synthesis of Patient Experiences	14
Psychedelics Are Still Not Ethically Exceptional: Rebutting Recent Claims of Uniqueness	13
Exploring the Essence of the Freedom of Thought – A Normative Framework for Identifying Undue Mind Interventions	13
Neurorights – Do we Need New Human Rights? A Reconsideration of the Right to Freedom of Thought	13
Ethical Challenges of Human-Machine Symbiosis in Brain-Computer Interfaces: Insights from Chinese Experts	12
Recruitment and Engagement of Indigenous Peoples in Brain-Related Health Research	11
Mental Integrity in the Attention Economy: in Search of the Right to Attention	11
Revisiting Maher’s One-Factor Theory of Delusion, Again	11
A Double-Edged Sword: Ethical and Psychological Implications of APOE Genotype Disclosure Across the Lifespan	11

Responsibility, Mental Capacities, and Socially Deprived Offenders	10
Is the Treatment Worse than the Disease?: Key Stakeholders’ Views about the Use of Psychiatric Electroceutical Interventions for Treatment-Resistant Depression	10
The Ethics of Human Brain Organoid Transplantation in Animals	10
Societal Collapse and Intergenerational Disparities in Suffering	10
When Are Psychiatric Patients Considered Less Credible? Implications for the Epistemic Injustice Debate	10
Limiting the Epistemic Argument Against Retributivism	9
Consciousness Ain’t All That	9
AI Algorithmic Bias, Neurodiscrimination, and Neurorights: Towards Conceptual Clarity in NeuroAI	8
The Role of Family Members in Psychiatric Deep Brain Stimulation Trials: More Than Psychosocial Support	8
Revolutionizing Brain Research Using Portable MRI in Field Settings: Public Perspectives on the Ethical and Legal Challenges	7
To Be, or Not to Be Exceptional: That Is the Question in Psychedelic Ethics	7
The Psychological Process Underlying Attitudes Toward Human-Animal Chimeric Brain Research: An Empirical Investigation	7
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
Conflicting Interests and New Frontiers: A Role for Virtue Ethics in Cutting Edge Brain Research with Humans	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
Implications of Genetic Explanations for Addiction: Insights from Clinicians	6
Why We Need Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) in Neuroethics	6
Rationales and Approaches to Protecting Brain Data: a Scoping Review	5
The Ethics of Set and Setting in Psychedelic Psychotherapy	5
Neurodiversity with Nuance	5
Neurotechnological Applications and the Protection of Mental Privacy: An Assessment of Risks	5
A Conceptual Framework to Safeguard the Neuroright to Personal Autonomy	5
Ethical Implications of the Impact of Fracking on Brain Health	5
The Habeas Mentem Principle. Reframing Neurorights in the Digital Age	5
Philosophical foundation of the right to mental integrity in the age of neurotechnologies	5
Practical Guidelines for Supportive Touch in Psychedelic-Assisted and MDMA-Assisted Therapy: A Model for Practitioners and Researchers	4
What is Being Transferred in Human Head Transplant (HHT)? A Confucian Perspective	4
Why Won’t You Listen To Me? Predictive Neurotechnology and Epistemic Authority	3
The Faithful Response to the Comforting Delusion Objection	3
Mitigating Ethical Issues in Training for Psychedelic Therapy	3
Revisiting Maher’s One-Factor Theory of Delusion	3
Enhanced yet still in Control: Neuroenhancements in the Service of Autonomous Agency	3
A Moratorium on Implantable Non-Medical Neurotech Until Effects on the Mind are Properly Understood	3
Health Aspirations for Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS)	3
The “Wheels That Keep Me Goin’”: Invisible Forms of Support for Brain Pioneers	3
Context as Contraindication: Ethical Challenges of Psychedelics and Other Neuroplasticity-Enhancing Drugs	3
How to Advance the Debate on the Criminal Responsibility of Antisocial Offenders	3
"In the spectrum of people who are healthy": Views of individuals at risk of dementia on using neurotechnology for cognitive enhancement	3
“You shall have the thought”: habeas cogitationem as a New Legal Remedy to Enforce Freedom of Thinking and Neurorights	3
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
Beyond Brain Data: An Enactive Approach to Brain-Computer Interface-Mediated Mind Reading and Mental Privacy	2
Justice, Nonmaleficence, and Autonomy: Neuroethical Considerations of Non-Medical Cannabis Use by Epilepsy Neurosurgical Candidates	2
Hope and Optimism in Pediatric Deep Brain Stimulation: Key Stakeholder Perspectives	2
Perceptions on the Ethical and Legal Principles that Influence Global Brain Data Governance	2
Stream of Consciousness: Some Propositions and Reflections	2
A Zhuangzian Perspective on Virtual Reality and Technological Enhancement of Morality in Sports	2
Neurorights as Hohfeldian Privileges	2
A Systematic Review on Pediatric Neurological Devices: Ethical, Regulatory, and Technical Considerations	2
Neuro-Nonsense: Why Ulysses Contracts don't Compute in Brain-Computer Interface Research	2

Psychedelic Therapy as Form of Life	2
What Happens After a Neural Implant Study? Neuroethics Expert Workshop on Post-Trial Obligations	2
Normality and the Treatment-Enhancement Distinction	1
How Do Psychedelics Reduce Fear of Death?	1
To Explant or not to Explant Neural Implants: an Empirical Study into Deliberations of Dutch Research Ethics Committees	1
When Do People Have an Obligation Not to Tic? Blame, Free Will, and Moral Character Judgments of People with Tourette’s Syndrome	1
Brain Preservation and Cryonics Through the Lens of Moral Psychology	1
When Pain Medicine is Scarce, Don’t Ignore the Problem: Considerations in the Ethical Allocation of Scarce Opioids	1
Understanding Public Perspectives in Germany Towards Illegal Stimulant Use for Neurocognitive Enhancement in Professional Roles: The Case of Doctors	1
When the Trial Ends: The Case for Post-Trial Provisions in Clinical Psychedelic Research	1
The Right to Mental Integrity: Multidimensional, Multilayered and Extended	1
Literary Neuroexistentialism: Coming to Terms with Materialism and Finding Meaning in the Age of Neuroscience through Literature	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
Responding to existential distress at the end of life: Psychedelics and psychedelic experiences and/ as medicine	1
Human Brain Organoid Transplantation: Testing the Foundations of Animal Research Ethics	1
Affect and Human Electrophysiological Research	1
Cognitive Warfare Through the Lens of Critical Neuroscience: Data, Theory, and Values	1
Precautionary Principle and Post-Mortem Brain Resuscitation	1
Privacy in Perspective: Research Participants’ Priorities and Concerns Related to Sharing Data Generated in Human Neuroscience Studies	1
“Am I locked-in?” Illness Trajectories, Medical Terminology, and the Experience of the Locked-in State in Japan and Europe	1
The Mystery of Mental Integrity: Clarifying Its Relevance to Neurotechnologies	1
Dementia, Authenticity, and the Moral Weight of Preferences	1