Ethics

• Informed consent

  Must be stable

  • Should know full aim

  Link: Participants were NGRIs so not mentally ready to consent

  BUT

  had presumptive consent by lawyers
• Psychological harm

  • Studies should avoid and individuals must leave in same state entered in

  Link: performance task may have been distressing as well as PET scan
• Withdrawl


  Should be able to stop at any point

  Link: may not understand withdrawl right
• Social Implications


  • Helps identify criminal tendencies

  violent murders have loss of symmerty and lack activity in prefrontal suggesting no control

  • Treatment for criminals

  Allow us to predict who will be criminals so can prevent early

  Chereck - SSRI decrease aggression