The Human Brain Project: Responsible Brain Research for the Benefit of Society

Arleen Salles; Jan G Bjaalie; Kathinka Evers; Michele Farisco; B Tyr Fothergill; Manuel Guerrero; Hannah Maslen; Jeffrey Muller; Tony Prescott; Bernd C Stahl; Henrik Walter; Karl Zilles; Katrin Amunts

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2019.01.005

The Human Brain Project: Responsible Brain Research for the Benefit of Society

Neuron. 2019 Feb 6;101(3):380-384. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.01.005.

Authors

Arleen Salles¹, Jan G Bjaalie², Kathinka Evers³, Michele Farisco⁴, B Tyr Fothergill⁵, Manuel Guerrero⁶, Hannah Maslen⁷, Jeffrey Muller⁸, Tony Prescott⁹, Bernd C Stahl⁵, Henrik Walter¹⁰, Karl Zilles¹¹, Katrin Amunts¹²

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; Centro de Investigaciones Filosóficas (CIF), Buenos Aires, Argentina. Electronic address: arleen.salles@crb.uu.se.
² Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
³ Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
⁴ Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; Science and Society Unit, Biogem, Biology and Molecular Genetics Institute, Via Camporeale, Ariano Irpino (AV), Italy.
⁵ Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
⁶ Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; Division of Neurogeriatrics, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society (NVS), Karolinska Institutet, Sweden; Department of Bioethics and Medical Humanities, University of Chile, Chile.
⁷ The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁸ Human Brain Project, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Campus Biotech, Batiment B1, Chemin des Mines 9, CH-1202 Geneva, Switzerland.
⁹ Department of Computer Science and Sheffield Robotics, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
¹⁰ Division of Mind and Brain Research, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy CCM, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.
¹¹ Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine, INM-1, Structural and Functional Organisation of the Brain, Forschungszentrum Juelich, GmbH D, 52425 Juelich, Germany.
¹² Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine, INM-1, Structural and Functional Organisation of the Brain, Forschungszentrum Juelich, GmbH D, 52425 Juelich, Germany; Cecile und Oskar Vogt Institute for Brain Research, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, University Hospital Duesseldorf, Germany. Electronic address: k.amunts@fz-juelich.de.

PMID: 30731062
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.01.005

Abstract

Recognizing that its research may raise various ethical, social, and philosophical issues, the HBP has made the identification, examination, and management of those issues a top priority. The Ethics and Society subproject is part of the core research project.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Brain / physiology*
European Union
Humans
Neurosciences / ethics*
Neurosciences / organization & administration
Neurosciences / standards
Social Responsibility*