Neuroscience, ethics, and national security: The state of the art

PLoS Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Tennison, Michael N ^a   Moreno, Jonathan D ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; MODAFINIL; OREXIN A; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT;

ARTICLE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; COGNITION; DECEPTION; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNDING; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; MEDICAL ETHICS; NARCOLEPSY; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROSCIENCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UNITED STATES; WORKING MEMORY; ECONOMICS; ETHICS; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEGAL ASPECT; METHODOLOGY; MILITARY MEDICINE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESEARCH ETHICS; SOLDIER;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; COGNITION; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NEUROSCIENCES; SECURITY MEASURES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84858981524     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001289     Document Type: Article

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