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Editorial
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Unravelling the complexities of neuroscience is now a multi-disciplinary enterprise. This general interest transcends biology and, apart from interactions with the physical sciences, increasingly involves such novel intellectual alliances as social-neuroscience, neuro-economics, neurophilosophy and neuro-ethics. The complex relationship between medicine, the style of its practitioners, behaviour—alone or in groups—and the reciprocal attitudes of society are all represented in these emerging disciplines. But is neuroethics merely an awareness of doctrines enshrined in the Declaration of Helsinki, first formulated by the World Medical Association General Assembly in June 1964 and since serially amended down to 2004, whereby clinical research is only conducted with informed personal or surrogate consent, and never in violation of the basic principles of human experimentation, ensuring
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