The Brain: How to Change A Personality

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But so would the castration of rapists, and that is considered a nearly unthinkable invasion of a person's body. Do we have a comparable right, neuroethicists ask, to "freedom of mind"? The ethicists are raising the questions, but it will be up to the courts--and ultimately society at large--to decide when the benefits of this powerful but intrusive branch of brain science outweigh the dangers.

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