Prof. Wolf Quoted in Science on Neuroethics

Professor Susan Wolf was quoted in a Science article entitled "Neuroethics: When a Brain Scan Bears Bad News." Wolf said that "although clinicians have a legal 'duty to care' for their patients, scientific researchers are not legally bound or professionally trained to interpret brain scans diagnostically." The article reports on a meeting held last week of "28 prominent neuroscientists, clinicians, ethicists, and lawyers in Washington, D.C., to hash out new guidance as part of a working group sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other U.S. and Canadian agencies." Wolf, who has led ground-breaking projects funded by NIH and now the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on the return of results and incidental findings to research participants, participated in the meeting.