Nita Farahany, the Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law and Philosophy at Duke University and the founding director of the Duke Initiative for Science and Society, says most people know their cholesterol levels and heart rate, but most people don’t know what’s happening in their own brain.
“We haven’t taken our brain health as seriously and treated it as aggressively as our physical health,” said Farahany.
Brain data, decoding your brain and cognitive liberty are some of the topics explored in Farahany’s new book “The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology.”
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