creators_name: Stieg, Chuck creators_id: stie0076@umn.edu type: confposter datestamp: 2008-08-24 10:57:20 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:10 metadata_visibility: show title: Neuroethical Considerations Regarding Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation ispublished: unpub subjects: phil-mind subjects: phil-sci subjects: neuro-psych full_text_status: public keywords: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, neuroethics, enhancement, technology, neuropsychiatry abstract: Along with advances in brain technologies comes the ability to enhance the cognitive and affective states of normal people. In this essay, I examine a relatively young technology used in cognitive neuroscience called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). I explain what it is, how it works and what some of its applications are. I suggest that a potential source of reservation one might have regarding brain-altering enhancement is the threat it seemingly poses to the subjective importance of mental states. 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Depression and Anxiety 12: 124-129. citation: Stieg, Chuck (2008) Neuroethical Considerations Regarding Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. [Conference Poster] (Unpublished) document_url: http://cogprints.org/6172/1/Neuroethical_Considerations_of_TMS_for_SPPconference.doc document_url: http://cogprints.org/6172/2/Neuroethical_Considerations_of_TMS_for_SPPconference.pdf