Ethical Challenges in Neuroimaging
PI: Scott Atlas, M.D.
Co-PI: Judy Illes, Ph.D. and Tom A. Raffin,
M.D.
PROJECT DATES: 2001-04
FUNDER: The Greenwall Foundation
A group of physicians, scientists and bioethics scholars at Stanford University have formed a working group to explore the ethical issues facing neuroimaging today and develop a specific Stanford contribution to the field. With participants spanning clinical and basic neuroimaging and biomedical ethics, this interdisciplinary group has identified the following issues as its major imperatives for the first three years of the program:
- Identification and analysis of a range of ethical issues associated with all phases of neuroimaging, spanning research, clinical pediatric and adult neuroimaging practice, and the neuroimaging marketplace. Specifically, we will characterize the specific biomedical ethical issues related to incidental abnormal findings in research and clinical neuroimaging, study the emergence and implications of in utero and neonatal MRI, and assess marketplace issues for consumer-driven neuroimaging.
- The need to bring to the foreground the state of scientific knowledge in research and clinical neuroimaging ethics. We will accomplish this goal by publishing a special invited issue of the journal Brain and Cognition devoted to the topic.
- Education, dissemination of findings, and health care policy recommendations.
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