Patent for Stimulation of Brodmann Areas 1-48 and all other structures

Fig. 1 (Roskams-Edriset al., 2017). The number of patents implicating specific brain regions has risen from 1976 to the mid 2010s. Results were obtained by searching The Lens patent database (http://lens.org/). “What is the ethical value of awarding patent rights that implicate regions of the brain?” Do the applicants intend to patent the function of specific brain areas? This absurd

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Source: The Neurocritic - March 5, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs

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