{"id":233523,"date":"2026-03-17T22:24:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T03:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/brain-surgeries-are-opening-windows-for-neuroscientists-but-ethical-questions-abound"},"modified":"2026-03-17T22:24:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T03:24:05","slug":"brain-surgeries-are-opening-windows-for-neuroscientists-but-ethical-questions-abound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/brain-surgeries-are-opening-windows-for-neuroscientists-but-ethical-questions-abound","title":{"rendered":"Brain surgeries are opening windows for neuroscientists, but ethical questions abound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-surgeries-are-opening-windows-for-neuroscientists-but-ethical-questions-abound.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Surgeries are increasingly opening patients\u2019 brains to research. But the opportunities that come with this intimate access also raise complex ethical issues.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more during BrainAwarenessWeek.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Invasive treatments give scientists an intimate view of neural activity, but ethicists worry about mixing research and medical care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surgeries are increasingly opening patients\u2019 brains to research. But the opportunities that come with this intimate access also raise complex ethical issues. Learn more during BrainAwarenessWeek. Invasive treatments give scientists an intimate view of neural activity, but ethicists worry about mixing research and medical care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}