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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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Responsibility, Mental Capacities, and Socially Deprived Offenders	106
Does Imagination Justify the Belief that Supra-Persons Are Physically Possible?	56
When the Trial Ends: The Case for Post-Trial Provisions in Clinical Psychedelic Research	53
Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease: Why Earlier Use Makes Shared Decision Making Important	33
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	28
Potential Consciousness of Human Cerebral Organoids: on Similarity-Based Views in Precautionary Discourse	20
Challenges to the Diagnosis of Functional Neurological Disorder: Feigning, Intentionality, and Responsibility	19
Memory Modification and Authenticity: A Narrative Approach	19
Anti-Love Biomedical Intervention and the Necessity of Consent	19
Unlocking the Voices of Patients with Severe Brain Injury	11
Societal Collapse and Intergenerational Disparities in Suffering	10
Addiction and Volitional Abilities: Stakeholders’ Understandings and their Ethical and Practical Implications	10
Caregivers of ALS Patients: Their Experiences and Needs	10
Neither the “Devil’s Lettuce” nor a “Miracle Cure:” The Use of Medical Cannabis in the Care of Children and Youth	9
Novel Neurorights: From Nonsense to Substance	8
Exculpation and Stigma in Tourette Syndrome	8
A Conceptual Framework to Safeguard the Neuroright to Personal Autonomy	8
Neurorehabilitation of Offenders, Consent and Consequentialist Ethics	8
Consciousness Ain’t All That	8
Against Aggression? Revisiting an Overlooked Contender for Moral Bioenhancement	8
Identifying the Presence of Ethics Concepts in Chronic Pain Research: A Scoping Review of Neuroscience Journals	8
Human Brain Organoids and the Mereological Fallacy	7
Why Won’t You Listen To Me? Predictive Neurotechnology and Epistemic Authority	7
The Right to Mental Integrity: Multidimensional, Multilayered and Extended	7
Data Hazards as An Ethical Toolkit for Neuroscience	7

Neurointerventions in Criminal Justice: On the Scope of the Moral Right to Bodily Integrity	6
Invasive Neurotechnology: A Study of the Concept of Invasiveness in Neuroethics	6
Autism and the Case Against Job Interviews	6
When Do People Have an Obligation Not to Tic? Blame, Free Will, and Moral Character Judgments of People with Tourette’s Syndrome	6
The Reliability Challenge to Moral Intuitions	6
Recommendations for Responsible Development and Application of Neurotechnologies	5
How Do Psychedelics Reduce Fear of Death?	5
Affect and Human Electrophysiological Research	5
An Afro-Communitarian Relational Approach to Brain Surrogates Research	5
How to Advance the Debate on the Criminal Responsibility of Antisocial Offenders	5
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	5
Implementing Neurorights: Legal and Regulatory Considerations	5
Preserving Narrative Identity for Dementia Patients: Embodiment, Active Environments, and Distributed Memory	4
The Unity of Consciousness and the Practical Ethics of Neural Organoid Research	4
Merging Minds: The Conceptual and Ethical Impacts of Emerging Technologies for Collective Minds	4
Shining a Light also Casts a Shadow: Neuroimaging Incidental Findings in Neuromarketing Research	4
The Role of Family Members in Psychiatric Deep Brain Stimulation Trials: More Than Psychosocial Support	4
‘More or Less Conscious’: Consciousness To-Day and To-Morrow	4
Safeguarding Users of Consumer Mental Health Apps in Research and Product Improvement Studies: an Interview Study	4
Should Moral Bioenhancement Be Covert? A Response to Crutchfield	3
Engagement, Exploitation, and Human Intracranial Electrophysiology Research	3
Pharmacological Cognitive Enhancement and Cheapened Achievement: A New Dilemma	3
Literary Neuroexistentialism: Coming to Terms with Materialism and Finding Meaning in the Age of Neuroscience through Literature	3
What (if anything) morally separates environmental from neurochemical behavioral interventions?	3
Mild Cognitive Impairment in Relation to Alzheimer’s Disease: An Investigation of Principles, Classifications, Ethics, and Problems	3
The Psychological Process Underlying Attitudes Toward Human-Animal Chimeric Brain Research: An Empirical Investigation	3
Moral Neuroenhancement for Prisoners of War	3
"In the spectrum of people who are healthy": Views of individuals at risk of dementia on using neurotechnology for cognitive enhancement	3
The Normative Implications of Recent Empirical Neuroethics Research on Moral Intuitions	3
A Transformative Trip? Experiences of Psychedelic Use	2
Brain Preservation and Cryonics Through the Lens of Moral Psychology	2
Deterministic Attributions of Behavior: Brain versus Genes	2
Towards a Governance Framework for Brain Data	2
The Unintended Consequences of Chile’s Neurorights Constitutional Reform: Moving beyond Negative Rights to Capabilities	2
Borderline Personality Disorder and the Boundaries of Virtue	2
Who does Neuroethics Scholarship Address, and What Does it Recommend? A Content Analysis of Selected Abstracts from the International Neuroethics Society Annual Meetings	2
On the Possibility and Probability of Post-Persons: Neuroenhancements and Moral Status	2
Giving Consent to the Ineffable	2
Exploring the Essence of the Freedom of Thought – A Normative Framework for Identifying Undue Mind Interventions	2
Normality and the Treatment-Enhancement Distinction	2
The Faithful Response to the Comforting Delusion Objection	2