Neuroethics and National Security
by Turhan Canli, Susan Brandon, William Casebeer, Phillip J. Crowley, Don Du Rousseau, Henry T. Greely, Alvaro Pascual-Leone
2007. The American Journal of Bioethics 7(5):3

Abstract/Extract
Science is driven by technical innovations, and perhaps nowhere as visibly as in neuroscience. In the past decade, advances in methods have led to an explosion of studies in cognitive, affective, and social neuroscience. Using technologies that can non-invasively record or stimulate activation in the human brain, recent studies have begun to elucidate the neuroscience of complex human social behaviors, such as love, trust, fairness, extraversion and neuroticism, deception, empathy, consumer preferences, and even moral decision-making. With these rapid developments has come concern for the implications of their applications outside the laboratory, and, with that concern, the “arrival” of neuroethics. This article concerns the potential uses of neuroscience research and methods to issues related to national security.