Wellcome Trust finances neuroethics
26 June 2008
The Wellcome
Trust is financing the UK's first neuroethics centre, to be
based at Oxford University.
More than £800,000 has been granted by the charity to Professor
Julian Savulescu, from the philosophy and practical ethics
departments.
He described the studies of the mind one of the "most profound
aspects of human existence".
Professor Savuleacu commented: "In the last decade, advances in
imaging and manipulating the brain have raised ethical challenges,
particularly about the moral limits of the use of such technology,
leading to the new discipline of neuroethics."
Researchers from different fields will be based at the centre,
enabling a wide varierty of views on neurosciences to be
represented.
Areas that will be studied include borderline consciousness,
severe brain damage, free will, addiction, the enhancement of
cognition and moral decision-making, among others.
The Wellcome Trust has also granted around another £800,000 to
King's College London to support new research fellowships and
studentships.
It works both within the UK and internationally to promote
research into the wellbeing of humans and animals.
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