Continued access to investigational brain implants

Gabriel Lázaro-Muñoz; Daniel Yoshor; Michael S Beauchamp; Wayne K Goodman; Amy L McGuire

doi:10.1038/s41583-018-0004-5

Continued access to investigational brain implants

Nat Rev Neurosci. 2018 Jun;19(6):317-318. doi: 10.1038/s41583-018-0004-5.

Authors

Gabriel Lázaro-Muñoz¹, Daniel Yoshor², Michael S Beauchamp³, Wayne K Goodman⁴, Amy L McGuire⁵

Affiliations

¹ Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA. glazaro@bcm.edu.
² Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
³ Departments of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
⁴ Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
⁵ Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.

Abstract

Brain implants are being trialled for their potential to ameliorate treatment-resistant conditions or to restore function. However, there are no clear guidelines for continued access to brain implants for trial participants whose symptoms improve with these devices.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Brain Diseases / therapy*
Brain-Computer Interfaces* / economics
Brain-Computer Interfaces* / ethics
Clinical Trials as Topic
Deep Brain Stimulation* / economics
Deep Brain Stimulation* / ethics
Duty to Recontact
Humans
Neural Prostheses* / economics
Neural Prostheses* / ethics
Research Subjects*

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding