Abstract: The ability to produce images of the structural and functional landscape of the human brain has resulted from the combined work of radiology and the clinical neurosciences of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry. This article considers five areas in which brain imaging raises ethical and legal issues: diagnosing disorders of consciousness, predicting neuropsychiatric disorders, detecting incidental neurological findings, determining responsibility and detecting lies in the criminal law, and protecting privacy and confidentiality of informati...
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Topics: 
Neuroscience
Psychiatry
Engineering ethics