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Papers

(The median citation count of Neuroethics is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Anti-Love Biomedical Intervention and the Necessity of Consent	76
Transformations, Tensions, and Transgressions: Neuroethical Reflections on Psychedelic Therapies	61
Damage and Restoration of Personal Identity in Deep Brain Stimulation: A Relational Perspective	39
Safeguarding Users of Consumer Mental Health Apps in Research and Product Improvement Studies: an Interview Study	36
What (if anything) morally separates environmental from neurochemical behavioral interventions?	35
Engagement, Exploitation, and Human Intracranial Electrophysiology Research	26
On the Possibility and Probability of Post-Persons: Neuroenhancements and Moral Status	23
Mild Cognitive Impairment in Relation to Alzheimer’s Disease: An Investigation of Principles, Classifications, Ethics, and Problems	22
The Unintended Consequences of Chile’s Neurorights Constitutional Reform: Moving beyond Negative Rights to Capabilities	18
Exploring the Essence of the Freedom of Thought – A Normative Framework for Identifying Undue Mind Interventions	18
The Ethical Implications of Illusionism	16
Protocol for Returning Results in Brain Science Research Targeting Individuals With Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Japan	16
Review of Walter Glannon’s The Neuroethics of Memory: From Total Recall to Oblivion, Cambridge University Press, 2019	16
Neurorights – Do we Need New Human Rights? A Reconsideration of the Right to Freedom of Thought	14
Living With Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease: a Systematic Review and Qualitative Synthesis of Patient Experiences	14
Recruitment and Engagement of Indigenous Peoples in Brain-Related Health Research	13
Ethical Challenges of Human-Machine Symbiosis in Brain-Computer Interfaces: Insights from Chinese Experts	13
Mental Integrity in the Attention Economy: in Search of the Right to Attention	13
Revisiting Maher’s One-Factor Theory of Delusion, Again	13
The Ethics of Human Brain Organoid Transplantation in Animals	12
Is the Treatment Worse than the Disease?: Key Stakeholders’ Views about the Use of Psychiatric Electroceutical Interventions for Treatment-Resistant Depression	12
Human Brain Organoids and Consciousness	11
Responsibility, Mental Capacities, and Socially Deprived Offenders	10
Consciousness Ain’t All That	10
Preserving Narrative Identity for Dementia Patients: Embodiment, Active Environments, and Distributed Memory	9

Societal Collapse and Intergenerational Disparities in Suffering	9
Limiting the Epistemic Argument Against Retributivism	8
The Psychological Process Underlying Attitudes Toward Human-Animal Chimeric Brain Research: An Empirical Investigation	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	8
Brain age Prediction and the Challenge of Biological Concepts of Aging	7
Neurotechnological Applications and the Protection of Mental Privacy: An Assessment of Risks	7
Revolutionizing Brain Research Using Portable MRI in Field Settings: Public Perspectives on the Ethical and Legal Challenges	7
One-Factor versus Two-Factor Theory of Delusion: Replies to Sullivan-Bissett and Noordhof	7
Conflicting Interests and New Frontiers: A Role for Virtue Ethics in Cutting Edge Brain Research with Humans	7
Implications of Genetic Explanations for Addiction: Insights from Clinicians	7
Ethical Implications of the Impact of Fracking on Brain Health	7
A Conceptual Framework to Safeguard the Neuroright to Personal Autonomy	6
Philosophical foundation of the right to mental integrity in the age of neurotechnologies	6
Neuroenhancements in the Military: A Mixed-Method Pilot Study on Attitudes of Staff Officers to Ethics and Rules	6
The Illusion of Agency in Human–Computer Interaction	6
Rationales and Approaches to Protecting Brain Data: a Scoping Review	6
Informal Caregivers of Patients with Disorders of Consciousness: a Qualitative Study of Communication Experiences and Information Needs with Physicians	6
Neurodiversity with Nuance	6
How to Advance the Debate on the Criminal Responsibility of Antisocial Offenders	5
Memory Modification and Authenticity: A Narrative Approach	5
Why Won’t You Listen To Me? Predictive Neurotechnology and Epistemic Authority	5
The Ethics of Set and Setting in Psychedelic Psychotherapy	5
The Faithful Response to the Comforting Delusion Objection	4
Health Aspirations for Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS)	4
The “Wheels That Keep Me Goin’”: Invisible Forms of Support for Brain Pioneers	4
Mitigating Ethical Issues in Training for Psychedelic Therapy	4
"In the spectrum of people who are healthy": Views of individuals at risk of dementia on using neurotechnology for cognitive enhancement	4
A Moratorium on Implantable Non-Medical Neurotech Until Effects on the Mind are Properly Understood	4
What Happens After a Neural Implant Study? Neuroethics Expert Workshop on Post-Trial Obligations	3
Revisiting Maher’s One-Factor Theory of Delusion	3
“You shall have the thought”: habeas cogitationem as a New Legal Remedy to Enforce Freedom of Thinking and Neurorights	3
Neurorights as Hohfeldian Privileges	3
Psychedelic Therapy as Form of Life	3
Neuro-Nonsense: Why Ulysses Contracts don't Compute in Brain-Computer Interface Research	3
Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease: Why Earlier Use Makes Shared Decision Making Important	2
A Systematic Review on Pediatric Neurological Devices: Ethical, Regulatory, and Technical Considerations	2
Neither the “Devil’s Lettuce” nor a “Miracle Cure:” The Use of Medical Cannabis in the Care of Children and Youth	2
When Do People Have an Obligation Not to Tic? Blame, Free Will, and Moral Character Judgments of People with Tourette’s Syndrome	2
When the Trial Ends: The Case for Post-Trial Provisions in Clinical Psychedelic Research	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
The Right to Mental Integrity: Multidimensional, Multilayered and Extended	2
Affect and Human Electrophysiological Research	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
Novel Neurorights: From Nonsense to Substance	2
How Do Psychedelics Reduce Fear of Death?	2