Faculty Scholars Program

Andrew Peterson, MA, PhD

Class of 2021

Assistant Professor

George Mason University

About

Scholar Project

Andrew Peterson is an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy and Department of Philosophy at George Mason University. He is also a Guest Researcher in the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health. Previously, he was a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar in the Rotman Institute of Philosophy and the Brain and Mind Institute at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Dr. Peterson’s research centers on bioethics and the philosophy of neuroscience, with focus on the ethical treatment of patients with disorders of consciousness.

Link to research programs:

https://www.ippp.gmu.edu/ethics-and-brain-injury

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For more information, visit: https://www.ippp.gmu.edu/andrew-peterson

Bioethics & Consciousness

Scholar Focus Areas

Biomedical and behavioral research

End-of-life decision-making

Mental health and neuroscience

The ethics of severe brain injury

Grant Cycle: 2017 - 2018

Professor Peterson’s project engages ethical and policy issues regarding the use of functional neuroimaging to evaluate patients with severe brain injury. It is designed to be responsive to, and integrated with, cutting-edge clinical neuroscience. The project aims to improve clinical care for brain-injured patients, advance ethical and policy practices, and inform broader research programs in the science of consciousness.

Andrew Peterson, Dominic A. Sisti, Skip the trip? Five arguments on the use of non-hallucinogenic psychedelics in psychiatry, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, October 2022.
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Andrew Peterson, Michael J. Young, Joseph J. Fins, Ethics and the 2018 Practice Guideline on Disorders of Consciousness: A Framework for Responsible Implementation, Neurology, March 2022.
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Andrew Peterson, Kevin Mintz, Adrian M. Owen, Unlocking the Voices of Patients with Severe Brain Injury, Neuroethics, February 2022.
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Andrew Peterson et al., Is there a difference between terminal lucidity and paradoxical lucidity?, The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association, February 2022.
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Andrew Peterson, Jason Karlawish, Emily Largent, Supported Decision Making with People at the Margins of Autonomy: Response to Commentaries, The American Journal of Bioethics, December 2021.
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Andrew Peterson et al., What is paradoxical lucidity? The answer begins with its definition, Alzheimer's Association, August 2021.
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Andrew Peterson et al., Caregiver reactions to neuroimaging evidence of covert consciousness in patients with severe brain injury: a qualitative interview study, BMC Medical Ethics, July 2021.
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Andrew Peterson et al., Ethics of reallocating ventilators in the covid-19 pandemic, The BMJ, May 2020.
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Andrew Peterson et al., Translating the Discovery of Covert Consciousness Into Clinical Practice, JAMA Neurology, Mar 2020.
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Andrew Peterson, How Will Families React to Evidence of Covert Consciousness in Brain-Injured Patients?, Neuroethics, Jan 2020.
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Andrew Peterson et al., Seeing minds in patients with disorders of consciousness, Brain Injury, Dec 2019.
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Andrew Peterson et al., Confronting the grey zone after severe brain injury, Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, Nov 2019.
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Grant Focus Areas

Biomedical and behavioral research

End-of-life decision-making

Mental health and neuroscience

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