This month’s issue of _Journal of Medical Ethics_ features a symposium on ‘neuro rights’ and the ‘right to mental integrity’. Medical ethics and the law have long recognised bodily rights—motivating requirements that patients give informed consent before medical interventions are performed on them or before research is conducted on them. Rapid advancements in neuroscience and neurotechnology are raising new questions about the boundaries of bodily rights, whether they extend to the mind or the brain, or whether we need new concepts (...) and rights to apply to the mental sphere. As Farahany 1 writes in her recent (2023) book, ‘The Battle for Your Brain’, the global market for consumer neurotechnology is growing rapidly, expecting to reach US$21 billion by 2026. A growing number of people are using personal neurotechnology that allows them to visualise and track their emotions, levels of alertness and concentration, as well as their actual brain... (shrink)