NDLI: The Neuroscience of Decision Making and Our Standards for Assessing Competence to Consent

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Clarke, Steve
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	Rapid advances in neuroscience may enable us to identify the neural correlates of ordinary decision making. Such knowledge opens up the possibility of acquiring highly accurate information about people’s competence to consent to medical procedures and to participate in medical research. Currently we are unable to determine competence to consent with accuracy and we make a number of unrealistic practical assumptions to deal with our ignorance. Here I argue that if we are able to detect competence to consent and if we are able to develop a reliable neural test of competence to consent, then these assumptions will have to be rejected. I also consider and reject three lines of argument that might be developed by a defender of the status quo in order to protect our current practices regarding judgments of competence in the face of the availability of information about the neural correlates of ordinary human decision making.
Starting Page	189
Ending Page	196
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISSN	18745490
Journal	Neuroethics
Volume Number	6
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	18745504
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2011-11-24
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Competence Decision making capacity Informed consent Neural correlates Rule of thumb Status quo Ethics Neurology Neurobiology Neurosurgery Neuropsychology Neuroradiology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Neurology Health Policy Psychiatry and Mental Health

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