Towards new human rights in the age of neuroscience and neurotechnology

Rapid advancements in human neuroscience and neurotechnology open unprecedented possibilities for accessing, collecting, sharing and manipulating information from the human brain. Such applications raise important challenges to human rights principles that need to be addressed to prevent unintended consequences. This paper assesses the implications of emerging neurotechnology applications in the context of the human rights framework and suggests that existing human rights may not be sufficient to respond to these emerging issues. After analysing the relationship between neuroscience and human rights, we identify four new rights that may become of great relevance in the coming decades: the right to cognitive liberty, the right to mental privacy, the right to mental integrity, and the right to psychological continuity.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Life Sciences, Society and Policy

• Publication date

  2017-04-26

• Fields of study

  Law, Medicine, Political Science, Philosophy, Sociology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1186/s40504-017-0050-1PMID 28444626PMCID 5447561
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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