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Martha J. Farah
Senior Fellow, Center for Bioethics
Director, Center for Neuroscience & Society, University of Pennsylvania
Graduate Group Affiliations
Publications
Links
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Center for Neuroscience & Society
Neuroscience graduate group faculty webpage.
Neuroethics Open Educational Resource
Martha Farah's web page
Search PubMed for articles
Center for Neuroscience & Society
Neuroscience graduate group faculty webpage.
Neuroethics Open Educational Resource
Martha Farah's web page
Education:
S.B. (Metallurgy and Materials Science, Philosophy)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977.
Ph.D. (Experimental Psychology )
Harvard University, 1983.
Permanent linkS.B. (Metallurgy and Materials Science, Philosophy)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977.
Ph.D. (Experimental Psychology )
Harvard University, 1983.
Description of Bioethics Expertise
Annenberg Professor of Natural SciencesDirector, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Director, Center for Neuroscience and Society
University of Pennsylvania
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Neuroethics, including: Brain imaging and brain privacy; cosmetic psychopharmacology and brain enhancement; end-of-life issues insofar as they relate to questions of mind, brain, consciousness and personal identity.
See Dr. Farah’s home page: http://psych.upenn.edu/~mfarah/
Center for Neuroscience & Society website: http://neuroethics.upenn.edu/
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience website: http://ccn.upenn.edu/
Selected Publications
Farah, M. J. : Emerging ethical issues in neuroscience. Nature Neuroscience 5: 1123-29, 2002.Farah, MJ & Feinberg, TE : Patient-Based Approaches to Cognitive Neuroscience. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000.
Farah, MJ : The Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision. Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers, 2000.