Publications

This briefing note provides an evidence-based and balanced summary of the ethical considerations in neural organoid research and those that might arise in the future.

This briefing note explores the ethical and social issues arising from the use of technology in mental healthcare.

This report looks at the possible benefits and unintended consequences of intervening in the brain, and sets out an ethical framework to guide the practices of those involved in development, regulation, use and promotion of novel neurotechnologies.

Ethical dilemmas arise everyday in relation to the care of people living with dementia. This report concludes that we need to do more as a society to enable people to live well with dementia.

Research is exploring how genes and the environment influence behavioural traits. This report addresses concerns over how this information could be used to try to predict, change or select such traits.

This report considers the ethical concerns raised by research into the genetics of mental disorders.