June 25, 2004

Gray Matters

By LILA GUTERMAN

Researchers form a new field, called neuroethics, to probe the implications of our ability to enhance the brain

If you could simply pop a pill to improve your memory, would you? How about if you took it just before an exam? Would that be cheating through chemistry?

Does the prospect of reading the brain's very thoughts seem invasive and frightening? Or might it be a boon to law-enforcement agents, who could at last build an accurate lie detector?

Such possibilities may

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