Neuroethical Issues of the Brain/MINDS Project of Japan

Norihiro Sadato; Kentaro Morita; Kiyoto Kasai; Tamami Fukushi; Katsuki Nakamura; Eisuke Nakazawa; Hideyuki Okano; Shigeo Okabe

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2019.01.006

Neuroethical Issues of the Brain/MINDS Project of Japan

Neuron. 2019 Feb 6;101(3):385-389. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.01.006.

Authors

Norihiro Sadato¹, Kentaro Morita², Kiyoto Kasai², Tamami Fukushi³, Katsuki Nakamura⁴, Eisuke Nakazawa⁵, Hideyuki Okano⁶, Shigeo Okabe⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of System Neuroscience, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, 38 Nishigonaka, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan. Electronic address: sadato@nips.ac.jp.
² Department of Neuropsychiatry, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.
³ Department of Research Infrastructure, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, 1-7-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo 100-0004, Japan.
⁴ Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, 41-2, Kanrin, Inuyama, Aichi 484-8506, Japan.
⁵ Department of Biomedical Ethics, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
⁶ Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan.
⁷ Department of Cellular Neurobiology, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.

PMID: 30731063
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.01.006

Abstract

The Brain/MINDS project aims to further understand the human brain and neuropsychiatric disorders through "translatable" biomarkers. Here, we describe the neuroethical issues of the project that have arisen from clinical data collection and the use of biological models of neuropsychiatric disorders.

MeSH terms

Bioethics
Brain Mapping / ethics
Humans
Japan
Mental Health / ethics
Neurosciences / ethics*
Neurosciences / methods