Exploring every ethical avenue. Commentary: The Moral Obligation to Prioritize Research Into Deep Brain Stimulation Over Brain Lesioning Procedures for Severe Enduring Anorexia Nervosa

Ludvic Zrinzo; James Wilson; Marwan Hariz; Eileen Joyce; Jane Morris; Ulrike Schmidt

doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00326

Exploring every ethical avenue. Commentary: The Moral Obligation to Prioritize Research Into Deep Brain Stimulation Over Brain Lesioning Procedures for Severe Enduring Anorexia Nervosa

Front Psychiatry. 2019 May 9:10:326. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00326. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Ludvic Zrinzo¹, James Wilson², Marwan Hariz³, Eileen Joyce¹, Jane Morris⁴, Ulrike Schmidt⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical & Motor Neurosciences, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom.
² Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts & Humanities, UCL, London, United Kingdom.
³ Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
⁴ North of Scotland Managed Clinical Network for Eating Disorders, Royal Cornhill Hospital, Aberdeen, United Kingdom.
⁵ Section of Eating Disorders, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, Kings College London, London, United Kingdom.

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Keywords: anorexia nervosa; autonomy; capsulotomy; deep brain stimulation; medical ethics; neurosurgery for psychiatric disease; stereotactic ablation.

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