AJOB NeurosciencePub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-07-09DOI: 10.1080/21507740.2025.2519451
Max F Kramer
{"title":"Affecting Affect: Emotion Regulation in the Explanation and Confrontation of Clinical Nonadherence.","authors":"Max F Kramer","doi":"10.1080/21507740.2025.2519451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2025.2519451","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39022,"journal":{"name":"AJOB Neuroscience","volume":"16 3","pages":"178-180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144592553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AJOB NeurosciencePub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-07-09DOI: 10.1080/21507740.2025.2519443
Aida Roige
{"title":"Helping Without Hijacking: Decision Science and the Ethics of Treatment Adherence.","authors":"Aida Roige","doi":"10.1080/21507740.2025.2519443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2025.2519443","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39022,"journal":{"name":"AJOB Neuroscience","volume":"16 3","pages":"189-190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144592561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AJOB NeurosciencePub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-03-14DOI: 10.1080/21507740.2025.2474228
Christopher F Masciari
{"title":"Motivational Barriers to Care and the Ethics of Encouragement.","authors":"Christopher F Masciari","doi":"10.1080/21507740.2025.2474228","DOIUrl":"10.1080/21507740.2025.2474228","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this paper I argue that by using methods of encouragement, derived from the fields of social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and behavioral economics, healthcare workers can potentially provide their patients with tools for increasing adherence to their treatment plans. I claim that the shared decision-making model can, and should, be enriched to include a component that encourages patients to follow through with their plans. It is commonsense that it is one thing to decide on a plan, and quite another to stick to it. Even if a plan is one's own, people often backslide with respect to their prior commitments. I appeal to the extensive literatures on decision-making, delay discounting, and willpower to provide some empirically verified tools for motivating patients. Importantly, I argue that contrary to appearances, motivating others to act with respect to their commitments expresses a respect for autonomy and is non-paternalistic.</p>","PeriodicalId":39022,"journal":{"name":"AJOB Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"158-170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143630520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AJOB NeurosciencePub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-02-21DOI: 10.1080/21507740.2025.2464112
Teresa Clark, Alison Edgley, Roger Kerry
{"title":"Making Healthcare Decisions on Behalf of People in a Disorder of Consciousness. A \"Risk-Making\" Theory of Decisional Practices.","authors":"Teresa Clark, Alison Edgley, Roger Kerry","doi":"10.1080/21507740.2025.2464112","DOIUrl":"10.1080/21507740.2025.2464112","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Healthcare decisions evaluate treatment risks and benefits, using a shared decision-making process between patient and clinician. Healthcare workers (HCWs) offer treatments based on condition specific evidence and expert knowledge. The patient evaluates treatment choices from their individual perception of how helpful or harmful treatment might be. This is a \"risk-taking\" decision. Those in a disorder of consciousness (DOC) have unreliable or absent awareness. They cannot participate in the risk-taking decisional process outlined above. Instead, family members and HCWs evaluate the options and determine how much risk is acceptable. We propose this is a distinctly different decisional process called \"risk-making,\" and that for those in a DOC it is influenced by multiple poorly understood factors. The different ways that decisions are made on their behalf may be negatively impacting their healthcare and creating a distributive justice need. A \"risk-making\" theory of DOC healthcare decision-making was developed via narrative literature review. It aims to explicate the realities of DOC decision-making practices, and surface rarely discussed assumptions and social factors possibly impacting DOC healthcare for discussion and future exploration.</p>","PeriodicalId":39022,"journal":{"name":"AJOB Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"129-145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143469518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AJOB NeurosciencePub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-07-09DOI: 10.1080/21507740.2025.2519433
Alberto Boretti
{"title":"Constructing Risk Ethically: A Normative Extension of Clark et al.'s \"Risk-Making\" Theory for Disorders of Consciousness.","authors":"Alberto Boretti","doi":"10.1080/21507740.2025.2519433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2025.2519433","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39022,"journal":{"name":"AJOB Neuroscience","volume":"16 3","pages":"149-152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144592555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AJOB NeurosciencePub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-07-09DOI: 10.1080/21507740.2025.2519444
Timo Istace, Kristof Van Assche
{"title":"From Risk-Making to Rights-Holding: Ontological Personhood and Best Interpretation in Disorders of Consciousness.","authors":"Timo Istace, Kristof Van Assche","doi":"10.1080/21507740.2025.2519444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2025.2519444","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39022,"journal":{"name":"AJOB Neuroscience","volume":"16 3","pages":"155-157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144592560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AJOB NeurosciencePub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-07-09DOI: 10.1080/21507740.2025.2519430
Derek R Soled
{"title":"Is Nudging the Same as Encouraging?","authors":"Derek R Soled","doi":"10.1080/21507740.2025.2519430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2025.2519430","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39022,"journal":{"name":"AJOB Neuroscience","volume":"16 3","pages":"171-173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144592563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AJOB NeurosciencePub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-07-09DOI: 10.1080/21507740.2025.2519456
Daniel Shussett, Shaun Respess
{"title":"Extended Will, Epistemic Care, and Motivational Barriers to Care.","authors":"Daniel Shussett, Shaun Respess","doi":"10.1080/21507740.2025.2519456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2025.2519456","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39022,"journal":{"name":"AJOB Neuroscience","volume":"16 3","pages":"181-183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144592558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AJOB NeurosciencePub Date : 2025-06-27DOI: 10.1080/21507740.2025.2519441
Saša Horvat
{"title":"Review of <i>Bioethics and Brains: A Disciplined and Principled Neuroethics</i> by John R. Shook and James Giordano.","authors":"Saša Horvat","doi":"10.1080/21507740.2025.2519441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2025.2519441","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39022,"journal":{"name":"AJOB Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144512541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AJOB NeurosciencePub Date : 2025-06-26DOI: 10.1080/21507740.2025.2519439
Erica Bigelow
{"title":"May, Joshua. (2023). <i>Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science</i>. New York, US: Oxford University Press.","authors":"Erica Bigelow","doi":"10.1080/21507740.2025.2519439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2025.2519439","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39022,"journal":{"name":"AJOB Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144498278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}