Neuroethics

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    Stop Saying the Brain Learns By Rewiring Itself

    Most neuroscientists accept that the brain computes by modifying its synapses, the links between neurons. On this view, the brain learns because experience molds it, rather than because experience implants facts. But experience does implant facts. We all know this, because we retrieve and make use of them throughout the day.Illustration by Gary Waters / […]
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    How Should Society Judge a Defendant with a Brain Tumor?

    After a visit from one of his patients in March, 1966, the psychiatrist Maurice Heatly noted, “This massive, muscular youth seemed to be oozing with hostility as he initiated the hour with the statement that something was happening to him and he didn’t seem to be himself.”That patient was Charles Whitman, a 25-year-old former Marine […]