The Issue of Brain Privacy Surrounding Neuroscience

A key aspect in neuroscience as developed in this case is the brain privacy ethical issue. The need to ensure that an individual personal information is not available to others has been critical issue in neuro-ethics with a significant focus on what need to be done in creating a clear environment where it would be very easy to enhance confidentiality and privacy of personal information. The future of neuroscience is much significant and there is greater emphasis on the need to ensure that the overall focus on. The extent to which brain imaging is done and information stored does not provide a clear understanding on the extent and which information obtained might be shared.

The key issues that have been developed in this case provides a critical understanding on what needs to be considered in creating a clear environment where it would be much possible to embrace fully the increasing technology in neuroscience. The overall environment under which the society is based is developed on crucial understanding of important concepts such as privacy where it must be significantly protect to protect individual dignity.

A key research that has been done in this area focused on brain privacy and how we can protect it. According to research by Sheri Alpert (2007), brain privacy is a critical issue, which is supposed to be undertaken for specific purpose under full consent of an individual. The author compares forced brain imaging to violation of the fourth amendment that protects citizens against unreasonable search and seizure. The information that is obtained bring a brain imaging should be handled with much confidentiality and privacy in order to ensure that it does not get in wrong hands. The research method that is based on this case involves systematic review of literature in the field of neuroscience.