Case reports about patients undergoing deep brain stimulation (DBS) for various motor and
psychiatric disorders—including Parkinson's disease, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and …

A number of reports have suggested that patients who undergo deep brain stimulation
(DBS) may experience changes to their personality or sense of self. These reports have …

Gilbert and colleagues are to be commended for drawing our attention to the need for a
sounder empirical basis, and for more careful reasoning, in the context of the neuroethics …

Brain implants, such as Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), which are designed to improve
motor, mood and behavioural pathology, present unique challenges to our understanding of …

Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is an invasive therapeutic method involving the implantation
of electrodes and the electrical stimulation of specific areas of the brain to modulate their …

Since its first applications in humans, DBS has triggered a plethora of ethical questions and
concerns and stimulated extensive ethical debates as to its significance and desirability. The …

The idea that deep brain stimulation (DBS) induces changes to personality, identity, agency,
authenticity, autonomy and self (PIAAAS) is so deeply entrenched within neuroethics …

One of the topics that often comes up in ethical discussions of deep brain stimulation (DBS)
is the question of what impact DBS has, or might have, on the patient's self. This is often …

Ethical evaluation of deep brain stimulation as a treatment for Parkinson's disease is
complicated by results that can be described as involving changes in the patient's identity …

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) uses electrodes implanted in the brain to modulate
dysregulated brain activity related to a variety of neurological and psychiatric conditions. A …