TY - JOUR
T1 - Ethical guidance for the management of conflicts of interest for researchers, engineers and clinicians engaged in the development of therapeutic deep brain stimulation
AU - Fins, Joseph
AU - Schlaepfer, Thomas E.
AU - Nuttin, Bart
AU - Kubu, Cynthia S.
AU - Galert, Thorsten
AU - Sturm, Volker
AU - Merkel, Reinhard
AU - Mayberg, Helen S.
PY - 2011/6/1
Y1 - 2011/6/1
N2 - The clinical promise of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for neuropsychiatric conditions is coupled with the potential for ethical conflicts of interest because the work is so heavily reliant upon collaborations between academia, industry and the clinic. To foster transparency and public trust, we offer ethical guidance for the management of conflicts of interest in the conduct of DBS research and practice so that this nascent field can better balance competing goods and engineer new and better strategies for the amelioration of human suffering. We also hope that our ethical analysis will be of relevance to those working with other related neuroprosthetic devices, such brain-computer interfaces and neural arrays, which naturally share many of the same concerns.
AB - The clinical promise of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for neuropsychiatric conditions is coupled with the potential for ethical conflicts of interest because the work is so heavily reliant upon collaborations between academia, industry and the clinic. To foster transparency and public trust, we offer ethical guidance for the management of conflicts of interest in the conduct of DBS research and practice so that this nascent field can better balance competing goods and engineer new and better strategies for the amelioration of human suffering. We also hope that our ethical analysis will be of relevance to those working with other related neuroprosthetic devices, such brain-computer interfaces and neural arrays, which naturally share many of the same concerns.
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U2 - 10.1088/1741-2560/8/3/033001
DO - 10.1088/1741-2560/8/3/033001
M3 - Review article
C2 - 21555849
AN - SCOPUS:79957969860
SN - 1741-2560
VL - 8
JO - Journal of neural engineering
JF - Journal of neural engineering
IS - 3
M1 - 033001
ER -