Laura Cabrera
- Assistant Professor
- Adjunct Assistant Professor
- Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences
- Department of Translational Neuroscience
- Philosophy
- C-211 East Fee Hall
- 517-355-7553
- cabrer22@msu.edu
WEBSITE
Website: https://www.bioethics.msu.edu/73-people/300-cabrera
BIOGRAPHY
Laura Cabrera's interests focus on the ethical and societal implications of neurotechnology and neuroscientific advances. She has been working on projects that explore the media coverage and the attitudes of the general public toward pharmacological and novel neurosurgical interventions for the treatment of psychiatric disorders. She has also worked on the public perceptions towards the use of different modalities of neuromodifiers for enhancement purposes, as well as their normative implications.
Her current work also focuses on the ethical and social implications of environmental changes for brain and mental health.
AREA OF EXPERTISE
- Is the Treatment Perceived to be Worse than the Disease?: Ethical Concerns and Attitudes towards Psychiatric Electroceutical Interventions
- Latinos Perceptions and Concerns about Alzheimer Disease
- Media Coverage of Psychiatric Neurosurgery: Cross-national Investigations of Public Reactions and Attitudes