NewsPronto

 
Men's Weekly

.

USA Conversation

The Conversation USA

The Conversation USA

It's not my fault, my brain implant made me do it

  • Written by Laura Y. Cabrera, Assistant Professor of Neuroethics, Michigan State University
Probes that can transmit electricity inside the skull raise questions about personal autonomy and responsibility.Hellerhoff, CC BY-SA

Mr. B loves Johnny Cash, except when he doesn’t. Mr. X has watched his doctors morph into Italian chefs right before his eyes.

The link between the two? Both Mr. B and Mr. X received deep brain stimulation (DBS),...

Read more: It's not my fault, my brain implant made me do it

More Articles ...

  1. Costa Rica looks a little less exceptional after its heated election
  2. Statesman, strongman, philosopher, autocrat: China's Xi is a man who contains multitudes
  3. Trump's military policy overlooks data on why transgender troops are fit to serve
  4. Why prime numbers still fascinate mathematicians, 2,300 years later
  5. Fabiano Caruana is poised to do what no American has done since Bobby Fischer. Here's the path he took to get there
  6. Colleges must confront sexual assault and sexual harassment head on
  7. FDR's forest army: How the New Deal helped seed the modern environmental movement 85 years ago
  8. MLK's vision matters today for the 43 million Americans living in poverty
  9. 'Oklahoma!' at 75: Has the musical withstood the test of time?
  10. Martin Luther King Jr. had a much more radical message than a dream of racial brotherhood
  11. How Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook targeting model really worked – according to the person who built it
  12. These are the VA's 3 main problems -- leadership isn't one of them
  13. Cuba's new president: What to expect
  14. Military mission in Puerto Rico after hurricane was better than critics say but suffered flaws
  15. Langston Hughes' hidden influence on MLK
  16. This 'Final Four' takes place over the board – with talent from around the world
  17. Much of what you think you know about Linda Brown – a central figure in Brown v. Board of Education – is wrong
  18. The invisible power of 'flutter' – from plane crashes to snoring to free energy
  19. How Texas is 'building back better' from Hurricane Harvey
  20. A VA hospital you may not know: the Final Salute, and how much we doctors care
  21. Is the growing Russia crisis another Cold War conflict? Nyet
  22. Why you stink at fact-checking
  23. Discovery of a surprise multitasking gene helps explain how new functions and features evolve
  24. Bobbleheads and other free swag star in baseball tax dispute
  25. Why are more people doing gig work? They like it
  26. 4 charts show why Trump's tariffs will hurt everyone – not just China
  27. Why EPA's U-turn on auto efficiency rules gives China the upper hand
  28. Federal spending bill deals blow to school safety research
  29. Improving the lives of those with dementia – by using memories of baseball
  30. Space weather threatens high-tech life
  31. Democracy is in danger when the census undercounts vulnerable populations
  32. How to stay honest this tax season
  33. Busting Russia's fake news the European Union way
  34. Baseball teams need to protect fans from foul balls -- and US courts need to lift MLB's special liability exemption
  35. Abusive relationships: Why it's so hard for women to 'just leave'
  36. Active shooter drills may reshape how a generation of students views school
  37. Hospitals hit back on drug pricing, but will they knock out the problem?
  38. Pakistan's activist Supreme Court endangers a fragile democracy
  39. Baby bust: 5 charts show how expensive it is to have kids in the US today
  40. Why it's so hard to #DeleteFacebook: Constant psychological boosts keep you hooked
  41. The tragic story of America's only native parrot, now extinct for 100 years
  42. Trump plan to execute 'big drug pushers' will do nothing to stop opioid overdoses
  43. Who is John Bolton and what does he want?
  44. Trump's go-it-alone approach to China trade ignores WTO's better way to win
  45. What the staff does matters more than what's in an organization's mission statement
  46. Kids' fitness is improving, but they still aren't as fit as their parents were
  47. Babe Ruth in a kimono: How baseball diplomacy has fortified Japan-US relations
  48. Congress left a little something for waiters and dishwashers in its $1.3 trillion budget
  49. The countries that trust Facebook the most are also the most vulnerable to its mistakes
  50. The everyday ethical challenges of self-driving cars