Brain Tissue Transplantation - Ethics
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Unintended changes in cognition, mood, and behavior arising from cell-based interventions for neurological conditions: ethical challenges.

29 Apr 2009 The prospect of using cell-based interventions (CBIs) to treat neurological conditions raises several important ethical and policy questions. In this target article, we focus on issues related to the unique constellation of traits that characterize ... Read more...

The cellular repair of the brain in Parkinson's disease--past, present and future.

30 Mar 2004 Damage to the central nervous system was once considered irreparable. However, there is now growing optimism that neural transplant therapies may one day enable complete circuit reconstruction and thus functional benefit for patients with ... Read more...

Medical ethics in the neurosciences.

30 Aug 2003 Doctors in India are heirs to a long tradition of ethics from their own forebears and from those from the West. This paper discusses ethical aspects of topics of relevance to neurological scientists such as brain death, neural transplant and whole ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Brain Tissue Transplantation - Ethics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Regulating ethical issues in cell-based interventions: lessons from universal declaration on bioethics and human rights. 29 Apr 2009
• Changes in the self: the need for conceptual research next to empirical research. 29 Apr 2009
• Intended changes are not always good, and unintended changes are not always bad--why? 29 Apr 2009
• Ethical challenges in cell-based interventions for neurological conditions: some lessons to be learnt from clinical transplantation trials in patients with Parkinson's disease. 29 Apr 2009
• Unintended benefits arising from cell-based interventions for neurological conditions. 29 Apr 2009
• Scare-mongering and the anticipatory ethics of experimental technologies. 29 Apr 2009
• Inevitable challenges in establishing a causal relationship between cell-based interventions for neurological conditions and neuropsychological changes. 29 Apr 2009
• Ethical challenges to cell-based interventions for the central nervous system: some recommendations for clinical trials and practice. 29 Apr 2009
• Unintended changes in cognition, mood, and behavior arising from cell-based interventions for neurological conditions: ethical challenges. 29 Apr 2009
• Embryonic, fetal and post-natal animal-human mixtures: an ethical discussion. 30 Dec 2005
• Positive potential of fetal nigral implants for Parkinson disease. 30 Oct 2004
• The cellular repair of the brain in Parkinson's disease--past, present and future. 30 Mar 2004
• Medical ethics in the neurosciences. 30 Aug 2003
• Transplantation of human adult astrocytes: efficiency and safety requirements for an autologous gene therapy. 13 Jun 2003
• Sham surgery controls: intracerebral grafting of fetal tissue for Parkinson's disease and proposed criteria for use of sham surgery controls. 29 Sep 2002
• Clinical neurotransplantation: core assessment protocol rather than sham surgery as control. 28 Sep 2002
• The brain and the I: neurodevelopment and personal identity. 30 Dec 1995
• Fetal brain transplantation: questionable human experiment. 26 Nov 1992

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Technical information about 'Brain Tissue Transplantation'

Definition: Transference of brain tissue, either from a fetus or from a born individual, between individuals of the same species or between individuals of different species.

Descriptor UI: D016380

Alternative terms: Brain Tissue Transplantation; Transplantation, Brain Tissue; Brain Tissue Transplantations; Tissue Transplantation, Brain; Tissue Transplantations, Brain; Transplantations, Brain Tissue; Grafting, Brain Tissue; Brain Tissue Grafting; Brain Tissue Graftings; Graftings, Brain Tissue; Tissue Grafting, Brain; Tissue Graftings, Brain;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; methods; mortality; nursing; psychology; rehabilitation; standards; trends; utilization; veterinary; statistics & numerical data; contraindications; ethics; ethnology; immunology; pathology; physiology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; ultrasonography;

Tree Number: E04.525.090; E04.936.580.090;

History Note: 91; was BRAIN/transplantation 1966-90

Technical Notes: coord IM with specific part of brain /transpl (IM or NIM); do not use /util except by MeSH definition; do not coord with TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS unless particularly discussed; transpl of fetal or embryonic brain tissue: coord IM with FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION (IM) + specific tissue /transpl + /embryol if pertinent (IM or NIM)