Does stimulating the brain from outside fall under the proposed right to mental integrity? · Grey Matter
It does when it happens without valid consent or causes harm.
Does stimulating the brain from outside fall under the proposed right to mental integrity?
It does when it happens without valid consent or causes harm. TMS changes the excitability of the cortex for minutes to hours and is used with consent as a treatment, which is ordinary medicine, but the same capacity to alter brain activity is what the right to mental integrity was proposed to protect against when it is imposed or misused. The debate is less about clinics than about non-medical uses, such as stimulation sold to enhance performance or required in workplaces, where the person's freedom to refuse is weaker.