American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience

ISSNs: 2150-7740, 2150-7759

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    Neuroethical Investigation of Moral Choices through Ubuntu: What Insights Can Neurophysiological Tools Provide?Michael O. S. Afolabi - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (3):212-214.
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    Limitations of the Ultimatum Game in the Study of Moral Decisions.Federico Bina - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (3):206-208.
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    Neuroethics, Pluralism, and Reviews.Yoann Della Croce - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (3):155-157.
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    EEG Correlates of Moral Decision-Making: Effect of Choices and Offers Types.Giulia Fronda, Laura Angioletti & Michela Balconi - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (3):191-205.
    Background Moral decision-making consists of a complex process requiring individuals to evaluate potential consequences of personal and social decisions, including applied organizational contexts.Methods This research aims to investigate the behavioral (offer responses and reaction times, RTs) and electrophysiological (EEG) correlates underlying moral decision-making during three different choice conditions (professional fit, company fit, and social fit) and offers (fair, unfair, and neutral).Results An increase of delta and theta frontal activity (related to emotional behavior and processes) and beta frontal and central activity (...)
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    Benefits vs. Risks: Neural Device Maintenance and Potential Abandonment.Frederic Gilbert, Marilena Pateraki & Alexander R. Harris - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (3):177-179.
    The study by Levy et al. (2024) offers new insights into clinical trial participant experience when assessing a novel visual cortical prosthesis (VCP) during an early feasibility study (EFS). We ap...
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    Disentangling Function from Benefit: Participant Perspectives from an Early Feasibility Trial for a Novel Visual Cortical Prosthesis.Lilyana Levy, Hamasa Ebadi, Ally Peabody Smith, Lauren Taiclet, Nader Pouratian & Ashley Feinsinger - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (3):158-176.
    Visual cortical prostheses (VCPs) have the potential to provide artificial vision for visually impaired persons. However, the nature and utility of this form of vision is not yet fully understood. Participants in the early feasibility trial for the Orion VCP were interviewed to gain insight into their experiences using artificial vision, their motivations for participation, as well as their expectations and assessments of risks and benefits. Analyzed using principles of grounded theory and an interpretive description approach, these interviews yielded six (...)
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    Disability Justice, Interdependence, and the Development of Assistive Visual Devices.Emily Rodriguez, Craig W. McFarland, Makenna E. Law, Ivan E. Ramirez & Joseph E. Brower - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (3):187-190.
    Despite significant advances in neurotechnology, the development of assistive devices often fails to take into account the nuanced needs and preferences of its disabled users into the design proces...
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    How Blind Persons Perceive Sight-Restorative Technologies Matters More than We Know.Arielle Silverman & Jason Scott Robert - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (3):179-181.
    In 2022, two surveys revealed important data about vision in the United States. According to the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), over 50 million American adults reported they either “have...
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    Toward a More Meaningful Use of EEG in Moral Neuroscience.Koji Tachibana & Makoto Miyakoshi - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (3):209-211.
    In this short commentary on Fronda et al. (2024), we discuss technical and philosophical concerns. Our primary concern lies in analyses at frontal electrode sites to support its main conclusion, ye...
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    Neglected Stakeholder Perspectives in Qualitative Neural Implant Research.Diana Urian, Nathan Higgins, Juan Martin Abreu-Melon, Vishruth Nagam, Claudia González-Márquez, Abigail Oppong & Barisua Nsaanee - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (3):184-187.
    Neurotechnological advancement hinges on cohesive collaboration among diverse stakeholders, all unified in improving user quality of life. However, identifying the specific individuals who should q...
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    Experience, Embodiment, and Post-Trial Obligations in Brain-Based Visual Prosthesis Research.Odile C. van Stuijvenberg, Erika Versalovic, Gabriel Lázaro-Muñoz & Peter Zuk - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (3):181-184.
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    Valuing Subjectivity Beyond the Brain, but Also Beyond Psychology and Phenomenology: Why an International Declaration on Neurotechnologies Should Incorporate Insights From Social Theory as Well.Andrew Ivan Brown - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (2):118-121.
    As Jan Christoph Bublitz (2024) rightly notes, the first international declaration on neurotechnologies and human rights would set the tone for further international and domestic regulations. For t...
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    What an International Declaration on Neurotechnologies and Human Rights Could Look like: Ideas, Suggestions, Desiderata.Jan Christoph Bublitz - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (2):96-112.
    International institutions such as UNESCO are deliberating on a new standard setting instrument for neurotechnologies. This will likely lead to the adoption of a soft law document which will be the first global document specifically tailored to neurotechnologies, setting the tone for further international or domestic regulations. While some stakeholders have been consulted, these developments have so far evaded the broader attention of the neuroscience, neurotech, and neuroethics communities. To initiate a broader debate, this target article puts to discussion twenty-five (...)
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  14. Basic Liberties, Consent, and Chemical Restraints.Parker Crutchfield & Michael Redinger - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (2).
    We thank all the thoughtful authors for their insightful comments. In this response, we try to address some of themes that emerged from the commentaries. We leave aside some of those comments that...
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    An Ethical Argument for Ending Human Trials of Amyloid-Lowering Therapies in Alzheimer’s Disease.Timothy Daly, Karl Herrup & Alberto J. Espay - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (2):80-81.
    Given the past two decades of over 40 failed trials of amyloid-lowering therapies in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), many of which succeeded in lowering amyloid as designed, we present an ethical argument for emptying the drug pipeline of tests of amyloid-lowering agents so as to end the historical dominance of the amyloid-reducing therapeutic approach in AD.
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    Nissenbaum and Neurorights: The Jury is Still Out.Nina F. de Groot, Vera Tesink & Gerben Meynen - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (2):136-138.
    In their interesting paper, Susser and Cabrera (2024) apply the contextual integrity framework to brain data and mental privacy. This framework, developed by Nissenbaum (2009) and rooted in digital...
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    Between Collection and Interpretation: Targeted Rights for Unpredictable Insights.Tessa Gavina & Lucas Gutiérrez-Lafrentz - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (2):142-144.
    In their paper “Brain Data in Context: Are New Rights the Way to Mental and Brain Privacy?” Susser and Cabrera (2024) argue against the notion that specific rights may be necessary to protect “brai...
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    Neurorights: The Land of Speculative Ethics and Alarming Claims?Frederic Gilbert & Ingrid Russo - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (2):113-115.
    The intersection of AI and neurotechnology has resulted in an increasing number of medical and non-medical applications and has sparked debate over the need for new human rights, or “neurorights,”...
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    Privacy Protections in and across Contexts: Why We Need More Than Contextual Integrity.Sara Goering, Asad Beck, Natalie Dorfman, Sofia Schwarzwalder & Nicolai Wohns - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (2):149-151.
    Do we need a right to mental privacy? In an era of increasing sophistication in recording, interpreting, and directly intervening on our neural activity – not to mention efforts at combining neural...
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    Beyond Substance: Structural and Political Questions for Neurotechnologies and Human Rights.Walter G. Johnson - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (2):134-136.
    The last several years have seen vibrant debates among policymakers and scholars on whether to craft new human rights (or novel interpretations of existing ones) around neurotechnologies. These con...
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    Brain Exceptionalism? Learning From the Past With an Eye Toward the Future.Eran Klein & Nicolae Morar - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (2):139-141.
    Discussions about brain data and privacy, particularly those advocating for human rights frameworks, at times, have embodied problematic undercurrents of, if not overt appeals to, neuro-exceptional...
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    Integrating Mental Privacy within Data Protection Laws: Addressing the Complexities of Neurotechnology and the Interdependence of Human Rights.Nadine Liv & Dov Greenbaum - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (2):151-153.
    Susser and Cabrera (2024) assess the role of bespoke neuro-privacy regulations including the creation of a novel right to mental privacy. They argue that focusing on what distinguishes mental priva...
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    Strong Bipartisan Support for Controlled Psilocybin Use as Treatment or Enhancement in a Representative Sample of US Americans: Need for Caution in Public Policy Persists.Julian D. Sandbrink, Kyle Johnson, Maureen Gill, David B. Yaden, Julian Savulescu, Ivar R. Hannikainen & Brian D. Earp - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (2):82-89.
    The psychedelic psilocybin has shown promise both as treatment for psychiatric conditions and as a means of improving well-being in healthy individuals. In some jurisdictions (e.g., Oregon, USA), psilocybin use for both purposes is or will soon be allowed and yet, public attitudes toward this shift are understudied. We asked a nationally representative sample of 795 US Americans to evaluate the moral status of psilocybin use in an appropriately licensed setting for either treatment of a psychiatric condition or well-being enhancement. (...)
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    Brain Data Availability Presents Unique Privacy Challenges.Joseph Spino - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (2):146-148.
    In “Brain Data in Context: Are New Rights the Way to Mental and Brain Privacy?” Daniel Susser and Laura Cabrera (2024) make a compelling case as to why the greater availability of neural data itsel...
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    In Situ Reprogramming of Neurons and Glia – A Risk in Altering Memory and Personality?Bor Luen Tang - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (2):90-95.
    The recent emergence of reprogramming technologies to convert brain cell types or epigenetically alter neurons and neural progenitors in vivo and in situ hold significant promises in brain repair and neuronal aging reversal. However, given the significant epigenetic and transcriptomic changes to components of the existing neuronal cells and network, we question if these reprogramming technology might inadvertently alter or erase memory engrams, conceivably resulting in changes in narrative identity or personality. We suggest that the nature of these alterations might (...)
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    Moving Beyond Context: Reassessing Privacy Rights in the Neurotechnology Era.Callie Terris - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (2):144-146.
    Neurotechnologies are revolutionizing our ability to monitor and modify the brain. As these technologies gather more data, many seek to understand whether brain data raises novel privacy concerns a...
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    At the Crossroads of Neuroethics and Policy: Navigating Neurorights and Neurotechnology Governance.Anna Wexler - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (2):77-79.
    This issue’s target articles cover some of the most hotly debated topics in neuroethics: neurorights and the potential establishment of international governance frameworks for neurotechnology. The...
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    The Global Governance of Neurotechnology: The Need for an Ecosystem Approach.David Winickoff, Laura Kreiling & Lou Lennad - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (2):116-118.
    As neurotechnologies continue to develop and diffuse, this fast-paced field must be guided by robust governance frameworks in order to promote responsible innovation. The article by Bublitz (2024)...
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    Hope in the Face of “Futility”: Considering the Full Scope of Psychiatric Treatment Options.Christopher W. Austelle, Jarrod Ehrie & Jeffrey S. Zabinski - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (1):59-61.
    Dorfman et al. (2024) survey psychiatrists’ perceptions of patients with “extremely” treatment-refractory symptoms, finding that many psychiatrists would continue recommending treatment despite the...
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    Psychiatric Care When Cure Is No Longer the Goal: A Call for Expansion of Management Options for Treatment-Resistant Mental Illness.Gabriel A. Ben-Dor, Duwa Alebdy & Yingcheng Elaine Xu - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (1):70-72.
    Dorfman et al.’s (2024) study on psychiatrists’ perceptions of treatment-refractory mental illness found that while most psychiatrists recognize there are cases where further treatment may no longe...
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    Chemical Restraints and the Basic Liberties.David Birks - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (1):22-24.
    Crutchfield and Redinger (2024) argue that, ceteris paribus, it is morally worse to deploy a restraint that undermines a basic liberty than one that does not.1 This is a plausible view, and is like...
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    The Influence of Using Novel Predictive Technologies on Judgments of Stigma, Empathy, and Compassion among Healthcare Professionals.Daniel Z. Buchman, Daphne Imahori, Christopher Lo, Katrina Hui, Caroline Walker, James Shaw & Karen D. Davis - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (1):32-45.
    Background Our objective was to evaluate whether the description of a machine learning (ML) app or brain imaging technology to predict the onset of schizophrenia or alcohol use disorder (AUD) influences healthcare professionals’ judgments of stigma, empathy, and compassion. Methods We randomized healthcare professionals (N = 310) to one vignette about a person whose clinician seeks to predict schizophrenia or an AUD, using a ML app, brain imaging, or a psychosocial assessment. Participants used scales to measure their judgments of stigma, (...)
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    Humanizing Patients and Their Needs Might Affect Psychiatrists’ Thinking about Futility.Rachel B. Cooper, Sarah E. Levitt & Daniel Z. Buchman - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (1):64-67.
    Dorfman et al. (2024) make a significant empirical contribution to a growing body of literature pertaining to issues of futility in psychiatry. The authors acknowledge that their survey methodologi...
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  34. The Conditions for Ethical Chemical Restraints.Parker Crutchfield & Michael Redinger - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (1):3-16.
    The practice of medicine frequently involves the unconsented restriction of liberty. The reasons for unilateral liberty restrictions are typically that being confined, strapped down, or sedated are necessary to prevent the person from harming themselves or others. In this paper, we target the ethics of chemical restraints, which are medications that are used to intentionally restrict the mental states associated with the unwanted behaviors, and are typically not specifically indicated for the condition for which the patient is being treated. Specifically, (...)
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    Dementia Prevention Guidelines Should Explicitly Mention Deprivation.Timothy Daly - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (1):73-76.
    The brain requires sustained interaction with a rich physical and social environment to stay healthy. Individuals without access to such enabling environments and who instead live and grow in disabling environments tend to have greater risk of developing dementia. But research and policymaking as regards dementia risk reduction have so far focused almost exclusively on the role of how individuals’ health behaviors change their risk profile. This exclusive focus on “lifestyle” is both ethically problematic and therapeutically inadequate. I highlight a (...)
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    On the Relative Intrusiveness of Physical and Chemical Restraints.Gabriel De Marco, Thomas Douglas, Lisa Forsberg & Julian Savulescu - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (1):26-28.
    Crutchfield and Redinger argue that consciousness-altering chemical restraints are less “liberty-intrusive” (or as we will sometimes put it, just less “intrusive”) than physical restraints. Physica...
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    What Do Psychiatrists Think About Caring for Patients Who Have Extremely Treatment-Refractory Illness?Natalie J. Dorfman, Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby, Peter A. Ubel, Bryanna Moore, Ryan Nelson & Brent M. Kious - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (1):51-58.
    Questions about when to limit unhelpful treatments are often raised in general medicine but are less commonly considered in psychiatry. Here we describe a survey of U.S. psychiatrists intended to characterize their attitudes about the management of suicidal ideation in patients with severely treatment-refractory illness. Respondents (n = 212) received one of two cases describing a patient with suicidal ideation due to either borderline personality disorder or major depressive disorder. Both patients were described as receiving all guideline-based and plausible emerging (...)
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  38. The Lived Realities of Chemical Restraint: Prioritizing Patient Experience.Ryan Dougherty, Joanna Smolenski & Jared N. Smith - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (1):29-31.
    In The Conditions for Ethical Chemical Restraint, Crutchfield and Redinger (2024) propose ethical standards for the use of chemical restraints, which they consider normatively distinct from physica...
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    On Changes and Opportunities at AJOB Neuroscience.Veljko Dubljevic - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (1):1-2.
    As the new Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the AJOB Neuroscience, I am aware that I have some very large shoes to fill. Paul Root Wolpe, who established the quality of the journal and served in that posit...
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    Striking the Balance: Harnessing Machine Learning’s Potential in Psychiatric Care amid Legal and Ethical Challenges.Dov Greenbaum - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (1):48-50.
    Buchman et al.'s (2024) paper illuminates a pressing issue concerning the utilization of machine learning (ML) in psychiatric care, shedding light on its potential to exacerbate stigma and social d...
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    Preferences of Individual Mental Health Service Users Are Essential in Determining the Least Restrictive Type of Restraint.Christin Hempeler, Esther Braun, Mirjam Faissner, Jakov Gather & Matthé Scholten - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (1):19-22.
    Crutchfield and Redinger (2024) propose that the use of a chemical restraint that affects only a particular conscious state is ethically permissible if, and only if, (1) it is the least restrictive...
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    Treatment-Resistant Psychiatric Conditions and the Ethics of Psychiatric Physician-Aid-in-Dying.Joseph Jebari, Christopher F. Masciari & Em Walsh - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (1):61-64.
    The recent push to extend physician-aid-in-dying (PAD) to psychiatric conditions has significantly altered the ethical landscape surrounding psychiatric judgments concerning treatment-refractory il...
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    Response to Commentaries: Frequent Preservation of Neurologic Function in Brain Death and Brainstem Death Entails False-Positive Misdiagnosis and Cerebral Perfusion.Ari R. Joffe & Michael Nair-Collins - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (1).
    We thank the authors of commentaries for their thoughtful discussion of our target article. Here we briefly summarize the points made in the target article (Nair-Collins and Joffe 2023). Then we em...
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    The Limitations of Principlism.Jed P. Mangal & Nathan S. Scheiner - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (1):17-19.
    In their article, Crutchfield and Redinger (2024) outline the conditions that they have identified as situations in which it is ethically permissible to use chemical restraints, defined as medicati...
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    What Is Futility in Psychiatry?Daniel D. Moseley - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (1):67-69.
    In their stimulating article, “What do psychiatrists think about caring for patients who have extremely treatment-refractory illness?,” Dorfman et al. (2024) survey 212 U.S. psychiatrists to gauge...
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    Unintended Harms of Novel Predictive Technologies in Mental Disorder Treatment.Şerife Tekin - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (1):46-48.
    Words we use to characterize mental states matter; they affect, for better or worse, the individual whose mental states are in question. For example, referring to a child whose behavior seems a bit...
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    On Being Conscious as a Basic Liberty.Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu & Shunsuke Sugimoto - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (1):24-26.
    Crutchfield and Redinger (2024) maintain that “being conscious is a basic liberty,” and infer from this that without informed consent, deep sedation, by intruding upon one’s consciousness, is an in...
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