Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. CONTENTS 5
3. Introduction 7
4. INTRACEREBRAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
5. Brain, Mind and Regenerative Medicine: Ethical Uncertainties and the Paradox of their Technical Fix 15
6. Can Intracerebral Interventions Change our Self? – Neuroethical Implications of Ontological Assumptions 31
7. Parfit’s Concept of Personal Identity and its Implications for Intercerebral Stem Cell Transplants 45
8. Changes in Personality: Possible Hazards Arising from Stem Cell Grafts – An Ethical and Philosophical Approach 57
9. Establishing Regenerative Medicine for the Human Brain: Ethical Aspects of Intracerebral Stem Cell Transplantation 91
10. Experimenting Innovative Cell Therapies for Parkinson’s Disease: A View from Ethics 107
11. Coping and Expectations of Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 123
12. DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION
13. Deep Brain Stimulation in Psychiatric Disorders 137
14. The Essential Tension: On Ethical and Historical Conundrums in the Trajectories of Deep Brain Stimulation 151
15. Changes in Personality: Possible Hazards Arising from Chronic Implantation of Electrostimulation Devices such as Deep Brain Stimulation Systems (DBS) or Advanced Electronic Neuroprostheses 183
16. Personality Changes through Deep Brain Stimulation of the Subthalamic Nucleus in Parkinsonian Patients – An Ethical Discussion 223
17. Manipulating the Brain – An Ethical Challenge? Lessons from Deep Brain Stimulation in Movement Disorders 251
18. Questions on Deep Brain Stimulation on Children and Juveniles with Neuropsychiatric Disorders with Extremely Adverse Course 281
19. Traditional vs. Modern Neuroenhancement: Notes from a Medico-ethical and Societal Perspective 291
20. CONTRIBUTORS 313