Vol. 8 No. 2 (2011)

'Normality', Lasani S Wijetunge, Neuroimaging has become a sophisticated tool that can be used to understand how our brain activities lead to higher order cognitive functions, such as thoughts and perceptions, as well as to examine what happens in the diseased state. In the future, if a neuroimage of your brain were to be used as a signature of you, your thoughts and actions-whose neuroimage would you compare yours against to determine whether your brain activities are ‘normal’?

Published: 01-Aug-2011

Editorial

Twitter Chip

Simon Biggs
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Research Article

Does Technology Trump Intellectual Property?: Re-framing the Debate About Regulating New Technologies

Michael Anthony C. Dizon
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Arguments in Considering the Similarity of Algorithms in Patenting

Perttu Virtanen Kenneth Oksanen
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Liability of Internet Intermediaries: a Slippery Slope?

Maurice Schellekens
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Ethical Implications of Brain Imaging in Psychosis and Psychopathy

Louise Robinson and Stephen M Lawrie Emma Sprooten
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Responsibility and the Automaticity Threat

Tillman Vierkant
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Analysis

India’s new Data Protection Legislation

Raghunath Ananthapur
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Brain imaging, the legal process and neurofantasy; can it be cured (by applying the principles of evidence – based medicine)?

Peter Sandercock and Joanna Wardlaw
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Report

Phase I Report of Implanted Smart Technologies Project

Shawn H E Harmon
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Book Reviews

Innovation and Liabilityin Biotechnology: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives

Kathryn Pickard
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