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  • 5 - Disorders of Memory Capacity and Interventions

  • Walter Glannon, University of Calgary
  • Book:
    The Neuroethics of Memory
    Published online:
    18 July 2019
    Print publication:
    08 August 2019, pp 140-168

  • Summary

    This chapter focuses on chronic disorders of memory capacity and interventions to treat them. These include anterograde and retrograde amnesia and impairments in working, spatial and prospective memory. It addresses differences between therapy and enhancement in memory modification. The chapter also considers deep brain stimulation as an experimental treatment for memory impairment in early-stage Alzheimer’s disease, weighing benefits and risks. It explains why devices external to the brain could not replace it as the source of memory. The chapter then explores the potential of a hippocampal neural prosthetic to improve memory encoding and retrieval for people with damaged hippocampi. It also explores the possibility of a prosthetic that would completely replace the hippocampal complex and whether it could decode the cognitive and emotional content of episodic memories.

The Neuroethics of Memory
  • From Total Recall to Oblivion
  • Walter Glannon
  • Published online:
    18 July 2019
    Print publication:
    08 August 2019
  • The Neuroethics of Memory is a thematically integrated analysis and discussion of neuroethical questions about memory capacity and content, as well as interventions to alter it. These include: how does memory function enable agency, and how does memory dysfunction disable it? To what extent is identity based on our capacity to accurately recall the past? Could a person who becomes aware during surgery be harmed if they have no memory of the experience? How do we weigh the benefits and risks of brain implants designed to enhance, weaken or erase memory? Can a person be responsible for an action if they do not recall it? Would a victim of an assault have an obligation to retain a memory of this act, or the right to erase it? This book uses a framework informed by neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy combined with actual and hypothetical cases to examine these and related questions.