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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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Addiction and Volitional Abilities: Stakeholders’ Understandings and their Ethical and Practical Implications	92
A Conceptual Framework to Safeguard the Neuroright to Personal Autonomy	42
Against Aggression? Revisiting an Overlooked Contender for Moral Bioenhancement	41
Identifying the Presence of Ethics Concepts in Chronic Pain Research: A Scoping Review of Neuroscience Journals	28
Neurorehabilitation of Offenders, Consent and Consequentialist Ethics	16
Societal Collapse and Intergenerational Disparities in Suffering	14
Caregivers of ALS Patients: Their Experiences and Needs	13
Exculpation and Stigma in Tourette Syndrome	12
Consciousness Ain’t All That	10
Potential Consciousness of Human Cerebral Organoids: on Similarity-Based Views in Precautionary Discourse	8
Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease: Why Earlier Use Makes Shared Decision Making Important	8
Unlocking the Voices of Patients with Severe Brain Injury	8
Challenges to the Diagnosis of Functional Neurological Disorder: Feigning, Intentionality, and Responsibility	8
Memory Modification and Authenticity: A Narrative Approach	7
Anti-Love Biomedical Intervention and the Necessity of Consent	7
Correction to: First Epileptic Seizure and Initial Diagnosis of Juvenile Myoclonus Epilepsy (JME) in a Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) Study– Ethical Analysis of a Clinical Case	6
Human Brain Organoids and the Mereological Fallacy	6
When the Trial Ends: The Case for Post-Trial Provisions in Clinical Psychedelic Research	6
Novel Neurorights: From Nonsense to Substance	6
Does Imagination Justify the Belief that Supra-Persons Are Physically Possible?	6
Neither the “Devil’s Lettuce” nor a “Miracle Cure:” The Use of Medical Cannabis in the Care of Children and Youth	6
Why Won’t You Listen To Me? Predictive Neurotechnology and Epistemic Authority	6
The Role of Family Members in Psychiatric Deep Brain Stimulation Trials: More Than Psychosocial Support	5
How to Advance the Debate on the Criminal Responsibility of Antisocial Offenders	5
Preserving Narrative Identity for Dementia Patients: Embodiment, Active Environments, and Distributed Memory	5

When Do People Have an Obligation Not to Tic? Blame, Free Will, and Moral Character Judgments of People with Tourette’s Syndrome	5
Pessimism Counts in Favor of Biomedical Enhancement: A Lesson from the Anti-Natalist Philosophy of P. W. Zapffe	5
An Afro-Communitarian Relational Approach to Brain Surrogates Research	4
Do Different Kinds of Minds Need Different Kinds of Services? Qualitative Results from a Mixed-Method Survey of Service Preferences of Autistic Adults and Parents	4
Recommendations for Responsible Development and Application of Neurotechnologies	4
The Reliability Challenge to Moral Intuitions	4
Autism and the Case Against Job Interviews	4
Merging Minds: The Conceptual and Ethical Impacts of Emerging Technologies for Collective Minds	4
Invasive Neurotechnology: A Study of the Concept of Invasiveness in Neuroethics	4
How Do Psychedelics Reduce Fear of Death?	4
Neurointerventions in Criminal Justice: On the Scope of the Moral Right to Bodily Integrity	4
Affect and Human Electrophysiological Research	4
Implementing Neurorights: Legal and Regulatory Considerations	3
Safeguarding Users of Consumer Mental Health Apps in Research and Product Improvement Studies: an Interview Study	3
Next of kin’s Reactions to Results of Functional Neurodiagnostics of Disorders of Consciousness: a Question of Information Delivery or of Differing Epistemic Beliefs?	3
What (if anything) morally separates environmental from neurochemical behavioral interventions?	3
The Unintended Consequences of Chile’s Neurorights Constitutional Reform: Moving beyond Negative Rights to Capabilities	3
The Psychological Process Underlying Attitudes Toward Human-Animal Chimeric Brain Research: An Empirical Investigation	3
Moral Neuroenhancement for Prisoners of War	3
Towards a Governance Framework for Brain Data	2
The Normative Implications of Recent Empirical Neuroethics Research on Moral Intuitions	2
Engagement, Exploitation, and Human Intracranial Electrophysiology Research	2
"In the spectrum of people who are healthy": Views of individuals at risk of dementia on using neurotechnology for cognitive enhancement	2
The Unity of Consciousness and the Practical Ethics of Neural Organoid Research	2
On the Possibility and Probability of Post-Persons: Neuroenhancements and Moral Status	2
Giving Consent to the Ineffable	2
A Transformative Trip? Experiences of Psychedelic Use	2
Pharmacological Cognitive Enhancement and Cheapened Achievement: A New Dilemma	2
‘More or Less Conscious’: Consciousness To-Day and To-Morrow	2
Shining a Light also Casts a Shadow: Neuroimaging Incidental Findings in Neuromarketing Research	2
Should Moral Bioenhancement Be Covert? A Response to Crutchfield	2
Literary Neuroexistentialism: Coming to Terms with Materialism and Finding Meaning in the Age of Neuroscience through Literature	2
The Spectrum of Responsibility Ascription for End Users of Neurotechnologies	2
Mild Cognitive Impairment in Relation to Alzheimer’s Disease: An Investigation of Principles, Classifications, Ethics, and Problems	2
Brain Death: Still A Puzzle After All These Years	1
Neurorights – Do we Need New Human Rights? A Reconsideration of the Right to Freedom of Thought	1
On the Contribution of Neuroethics to the Ethics and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence	1
What it Might Be like to Be a Group Agent	1
Correction to: Human Brain Organoids and Consciousness	1
Responding to existential distress at the end of life: Psychedelics and psychedelic experiences and/ as medicine	1
Losing Meaning: Philosophical Reflections on Neural Interventions and their Influence on Narrative Identity	1
Embodiment, Movement and Agency in Neuroethics	1
Neuroparenting: the Myths and the Benefits. An Ethical Systematic Review	1
Review of Walter Glannon’s The Neuroethics of Memory: From Total Recall to Oblivion, Cambridge University Press, 2019	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
Deterministic Attributions of Behavior: Brain versus Genes	1
Normality and the Treatment-Enhancement Distinction	1
The Ethical Implications of Illusionism	1
Borderline Personality Disorder and the Boundaries of Virtue	1
The Impossibility of a Moral Right to Privacy	1

Brain age Prediction and the Challenge of Biological Concepts of Aging