脑科学的希望改善生活质量

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最近的一些研究表明，通过使用内存修改，隐性偏见发生了变化睡眠期间，以及通过叙事的使用这会影响神经认知推理和理由过程。

目前也在研究扩展的用途大脑刺激到影响一系列神经和精神病疾病和状态，并且正在迅速使用神经调节技术在临床，职业和公共环境中，可以改变情绪，并提高某些认知和行为任务的绩效。

Furthermore, for the near future there are项目试图将神经科学能力的界限推向迄今为止仅是虚构的领域。

脑科学的承诺和问题

The promise of brain science lies in its capabilities to reduce the burden of neurological and psychiatric disease, to afford methods and tools to assist, if not better, daily living, and to improve the quality of life.

Yet, these very same methods and tools can be, and are, viewed as the engines of dystopia, conjuring visions of mind reading and thought control, fostering a widening gap between the neurotechnologically enhanced and those not, and opening a veritable Pandora’s Box of potential problems and harms spawned by unanticipated effects or ‘runaway’ science.

这与从大脑倡议促使美国发布了建议生物伦理问题研究总统委员会that offer a basis for neuroethical address.

脑科学在世界舞台上工作

但是，这些建议虽然声音，但并未详细说明如何参与神经道德的方向，或通过复杂领域提供指导，即使不是社会，文化，经济，有时甚至是政治变量和背景，这些变量和背景都会使知识和工具的知识和工具颜色为脑科学可以使用，也许应该使用。

神经科学已经并且正在变得越来越成为全球社会力量。非西方生物和神经技术投资，研究和使用的最新和近期增长将越来越多地影响国际经济学，以及不同社会文化市场对神经科学翻译及其应用的看法，价值和影响的方式。

Neuroethics for this new vista – and reality – of brain science must appreciate current and emerging trends in both technology and the social sphere, and should not be bounded by the sole adherence to, or use of, Western ideas, ideals or values.

我们需要为问题，问题和解决方案做好准备，即这种削减的科学将在特定和“现实世界”的情况和环境中产生。

这需要更广泛，更具包容性的取向多元文化观点，以确保神经伦理的地址和方法直接直接relevant，，，，realistic and remain适用于问题and possibilities generated by neuroscience upon the twenty first century world stage。

Neuroethics needs to keep pace

可以说，如果神经伦理学是跟上脑科学和社会关注的步伐，这既重要又必要。换句话说，没有神经伦理学，就不应该有新的神经科学。我们需要为问题，问题和解决方案做好准备，即这种削减的科学将在特定和“现实世界”的情况和环境中产生。

This will require dedicated investment to accurately define and address neuroethico-legal and social issues inherent and derivative to the most current neuroscience and technology; not to restrict research or its translation, but to maximize its value.

毫无疑问神经科学将启用新的知识ge and tools, and it is important to cultivate brain research and its translation. But it is equally, if not most important to ask – and guide – what we will do with such insight and tools, and to prudently establish how such guidance will be developed and enacted. Simply put, given the momentum and breadth of brain science, to do otherwise would be folly.