Ethics of Brain Imaging

Brain imaging technology has move forward in exciting ways in recent years and is finding a variety of new used, both clinical and non-clinical. These applications raise a number of ethical considerations.

This short video was produced as an assessed piece of work by second year Medical Biochemistry students at the University of Leicester in 2011. The content focuses on the ethical response to "incidental findings" (although the fictional case is really an example of potential misdiagnosis rather than ignoring of an incidental finding).

The video was made by Damilola Fajuyigbe, Rajeeve PArmar, Anoushka Patel and Sagar Patel.

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