Tehran University of Medical Sciences Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine 2008-0387 2 0 2009 05 30 34 34 Shahin Akhondzadeh Psychiatry research center, Roozbeh Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Seyed Hesameddin Abbasi Central Hospital, National Oil Company, Tehran, Iran. 2015 10 04 2021 01 10 Concerns regarding ethics of psychiatric research were a critical point in research when lots of news was announced about human rights abuses in the Nazi Germany. However, even nowadays, psychiatric research involving people suffering from different types of psychiatric disorders can still be distorted and, rather than fulfilling its promise of improved understanding of psychiatric disorder and its treatment, can result in serious harm to patients who participated in these investigations. This review focuses on some important ethical aspects in psychiatric research. https://jmehm.tums.ac.ir/index.php/jmehm/article/view/34 https://jmehm.tums.ac.ir/index.php/jmehm/article/download/34/19