This month, AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Jacquelyn Nestor, a fifth-year MD/PhD student at Hofstra-Northwell School of Medicine, interviewed Allen Buchanan, PhD, about how we can safely explore cutting-edge biomedical enhancements.

Medical expert witnesses are ethically and legally obligated to provide honest testimony that meets the standards of the Daubert test.

A mandatory faculty course on dyslexia is recommended to prevent bias against and misunderstanding of medical students who have this condition.

For reasons of medical ethics, medical schools should embrace functional technical standards that focus on the capabilities of students with disabilities.

What are insurance, contract, and criminal law implications of detecting Alzheimer’s disease early?

People with autism have a right to access “autism-friendly” theatrical performances. Theater-based treatment programs can help remove stigma and cultivate participants’ reciprocal social communication skills.

Our ability to infer mental states from fMRI scans is still rudimentary, but the time may be approaching when neuroimaging can be used to indicate witnesses’ reliability in court proceedings.

Neurobiological markers raise complex questions about what it means to be “at risk.”