The term neuroethics describes a field of bioethics that deals with dilemmas arising from developments in neuroscience. Why are we so sensitive to the considerations of neuroethics? Because it involves the brain, the organ responsible for our perception, our thoughts and our conscience. Since 2002, neuroethics has been recognised as a new discipline that offers an area of consideration for neuroscientific knowledge. Within its framework, two branches can be distinguished: basic neuroethics and applied neuroethics.... Science does not stop, and its development has gained such an accelerated pace that there is not enough time to discuss its processes. This article contributes the thesis that neuroethics will be to the 21st century what genetics was to the 20th century.
