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Received: 28 September 2016

Accepted: 1 May 2018

First Online: 11 June 2018

Authors’ information

: Sabine Müller is assistant professor for Medical Ethics and Neurophilosophy. She holds a master degree in physics and a PhD in Philosophy (both RWTH University Aachen, Germany). Sabine Müller is the Principle Investigator of the international ERA-NET research project “Psychiatric Neurosurgery: Ethical, Legal and Societal issues”. She leads the ethics subproject funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (01GP1621A). Sabine Müller led the project “Personality changes through interventions into the brain” funded by the German Research Foundation (MU 3321/1–1) and worked in the project “NeuroSCAN: Ethical and Legal Aspects of Norms in Neuroimaging” funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (01GP0804).Merlin Bittlinger is a PhD candidate with a B.Sc. in Cognitive Science (University of Osnabrück) and a Master degree in Philosophy (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany). He works as research assistant in the ethics subsection of the ERA-NET project “Psychiatric Neurosurgery – Ethical, Legal, and Societal Issues”.

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