Publications

  1. Levy L, Feinsinger A. Participant Engagement, Epistemic Injustice, and Early-Phase Implanted Neural Device Research. Hastings Center Report. 2025 Sep-Oct;55(5):18-28. doi: 10.1002/hast.70022.

  2. Peabody Smith A, Levy L, Hanson C, Pouratian N, Feinsinger A. Conflicting Interests and New Frontiers: A Role for Virtue Ethics in Cutting Edge Brain Research with Humans. Neuroethics. 2025 18(3):47. doi: 10.1007/s12152-025-09618-0.

  3. Levy L, Wexler A, Feinsinger A. Responsible Neural Technology Development: Ethical Issues and Challenges in Neural Interfaces, eds Valeriani D and Vaughan T. 2025 Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/C2023-0-51142-5

  4. Wexler A, Feinsinger A. Ethical challenges in translating brain-computer interfaces. Nature Human Behavior. 2024 Oct;8(10):1831-1833. doi: 10.1038/s41562-024-01972-y

  5. Dasgupta I, Klein E, Cabrera LY, Chiong W, Feinsinger A, Fins JJ, Haeusermann T, Hendriks S, Lázaro‑Muñoz G, Kubu C, Mayberg H, Ramos K, Roskies A, Sankary L, Walton A,  Widge AS, Goering S. What Happens After a Neural Implant Study? Neuroethics Expert Workshop on Post-Trial Obligations. Neuroethics. 2024 17(22). doi: 10.1007/s12152-024-09549-2

  6. Peabody Smith A, Feinsinger A. Extending patient-centred communication to non-speaking intellectually disabled persons. Journal of Medical Ethics. 2024 Feb 19:jme-2023-109671. doi: 10.1136/jme-2023-109671

  7. Levy L, Ebadi H, Peabody Smith A, Taiclet L, Pouratian N, Feinsinger A. Disentangling Function from Benefit: Participant Perspectives from an Early Feasibility Trial for a Novel Visual Cortical Prosthesis. AJOB Neuroscience. 2024 Jul-Sep;15(3):158-176. doi: 10.1080/21507740.2023.2257152

  8. Hitti FL, Widge AS, Riva-Posse P, Malone DA Jr, Okun MS, Shanechi MM, Foote KD, Lisanby SH, Ankudowich E, Chivukula S, Chang EF, Gunduz A, Hamani C, Feinsinger A, Kubu CS, Chiong W, Chandler JA, Carbunaru R, Cheeran B, Raike RS, Davis RA, Halpern CH, Vanegas-Arroyave N, Markovic D, Bick SK, McIntyre CC, Richardson RM, Dougherty DD, Kopell BH, Sweet JA, Goodman WK, Sheth SA, Pouratian N. Future directions in psychiatric neurosurgery: Proceedings of the 2022 American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery meeting on surgical neuromodulation for psychiatric disorders. Brain Stimulation. 2023 May-Jun;16(3):867-878. doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2023.05.011

  9. Peabody Smith A, Pouratian N, Feinsinger A. Two Practices to Improve Informed Consent for Intraoperative Brain Research. Neurosurgery. 2023 May 1;92(5):e97-e101. doi: 10.1227/neu.0000000000002336

  10. Peabody Smith A, Taiclet L, Ebadi H, Levy L, Weber M, Caruso EM, Pouratian N, Feinsinger A. "They were already inside my head to begin with": Trust, Translational Misconception, and Intraoperative Brain Research. AJOB Empirical Bioethics. 2023 Apr-Jun;14(2):111-124. doi: 10.1080/23294515.2022.2123869

  11. Feinsinger A, Pouratian N. What ethical issues need to be considered when doing research with patients undergoing invasive electrode implantation? in Intracranial EEG for Cognitive Neuroscience. ed. Nikolai Axmacher, 2023 Springer International Publishing.

  12. Feinsinger A, Pouratian N, Ebadi H, Adolphs R, Andersen R, Beauchamp MS, Chang EF, Crone NE, Collinger JL, Fried I, Mamelak A, Richardson M, Rutishauser U, Sheth SA, Suthana N, Tandon N, Yoshor D; NIH Research Opportunities in Humans Consortium. Ethical commitments, principles, and practices guiding intracranial neuroscientific research in humans. Neuron. 2022 Jan 19;110(2):188-194. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2021.11.011

  13. Pham MT, Pouratian N, Feinsinger A. Engagement, Exploitation, and Human Intracranial Electrophysiology Research. Neuroethics. 2022 Oct;15(3):25. doi: 10.1007/s12152-022-09502-1

  14. Ho EW, Murillo AL, Davis LA, Iraheta YA, Advani SM, Feinsinger A, Waterman AD. Findings of living donation experiences shared on a digital storytelling platform: A thematic analysis. PEC Innovation. 2022 Feb 17;1:100023. doi: 10.1016/j.pecinn.2022.100023

  15. Davis L, Iraheta YA, Ho EW, Murillo AL, Feinsinger A, Waterman AD. Living Kidney Donation Stories and Advice Shared Through a Digital Storytelling Library: A Qualitative Thematic Analysis. Kidney Med. 2022 May 21;4(7):100486. doi: 10.1016/j.xkme.2022.100486

  16. Feinsinger A, Pham M, Pouratian N. The Value of Heterogeneity in Practices to Promote Ethical Research. AJOB Neuroscience. 2021 Jan;12(1):80-82. doi: 10.1080/21507740.2020.1866116

  17. Farkas-Skiles CM, Feinsinger A, Pines R, Waterman AD. Providers and Families Weigh in on Delays to Pediatric Kidney Transplant Wait-List Activation. Prog Transplant. 2022 Mar;32(1):41-48. doi: 10.1177/15269248211064875

  18. Feinsinger A. The Variation Problem. Philosophical Studies. 2021 178:317-338. doi: 10.1007/s11098-020-01433-y

  19. Feinsinger A, Friedell D. Medicalization and Linguistic Agency. Ratio. 2020 33(12):232-242. doi: 10.1111/rati.12264

  20. Campelia GD, Feinsinger A. Creating Space for Feminist Ethics in Medical School. HEC Forum. 2020 Jun;32(2):111-124. doi: 10.1007/s10730-020-09403-x

  21. Feinsinger A. The Semantic Lexicon and Analyticity, UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics, Papers in Semantics. 2012 16:51-68.

Media and Press

  1. Community-Partnered Neuroscience Research: Strengthening Trust and Engagement, Science Summit, 80th United Nations General Assembly, Sep (2025). link

  2. “Neuroscience research to benefit to society” (2024), Nature. link

  3. “The Dana Foundation Launches Multi-Million Dollar Initiative to Align Neuroscience to Societal Needs” link

  4. Donahoo J. “UCLA receives $5 million grant to align neuroscience and societal needs”, April (2024), UCLA Newsroom. link

  5. Servik K. “Window of Opportunity: When surgery to treat neurological conditions lets researchers peer into the brain, ethical questions abound”, Jan. (2022), Science, 375:6578, pp. 257-259. link

  6. Sun A. “UCLA faculty help develop list of ethical principles for intracranial research”, Feb, (2022). The Daily Bruin, News, Science, Health. Link

  7. “Investigators make ethical commitment for neuroscience research in humans”, May, (2022). Medical Ethics Advisor, 38:5. link

Awards

Best Abstract, “Risks, Benefits, and Value: Patient-Participant Perspectives on Basic Intracranial Human Research”, International Neuroethics Society Annual Meeting, 2021. Peabody Smith A, et al.

Best Abstract, “Exploring the Ethical Challenges of Conducting Basic Neuroscience Research in Epilepsy Monitoring Units”, International Neuroethics Society Annual Meeting, 2025. Levy L, Feinsinger A.