Five Questions for Judy Illes

The Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics at Loyola University

Judy Illes of Stanford University is talking about neuroethics, an area of research she helped found and has led, at the American Academy for the Advancement of Science conference in St. Louis, and among the topics of her most recent research is incidental findings in brain imaging research. Here she answers questions in streaming video about her research and that paper in particular.

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