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PEBS News Roundup from the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics: Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences

By Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

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The Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS) is a collaborative neuroethics effort of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Johns Hopkins Brain Sciences Institute. The primary goal of PEBS is to ensure that research in brain science proceeds with an informed understanding of ethical issues, and that philosophical and empirical analyses of the advances in brain research proceeds with an informed understanding of the science. The PEBS News Roundup is a bi-weekly collection of links to new neuroethics stories and papers.

In the Academic Literature:

Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy
Nature, December 7 2008
The Neural Correlates of Third-Party Punishment
Neuron, 2008:60(5):930-940
How Well Are We Moving Toward a Most Productive Science of Consciousness?
Journal of Consciousness Studies, 2008:15(12):75-98
Human Volition: towards a neuroscience of will
Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2008:9:12

Brain implant allows mute man to speak
Nature, November 21 2008
A Brain Circuit for Bungee Jumping?
Science, November 24 2008
Brain Quirk Makes Eyewitnesses Less Reliable
New Scientist, December 5 2008
Neurosurgical treatment of mood disorders: traditional psychosurgery and the advent of deep brain stimulation.
Current Opinion in Psychiatry 2009:22:1
Neuroscience: Along memory lane
Nature, 2008:456:590-591
Stimulating Minds: The Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience of Mindreading (Book Review)
Mind, 2008:117(468): 1076
Freedom and Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power
Mind 2008:117(468):1127
Public opinion and the ethics of primate brain research
Nature, 2008:456:443

In the Popular Press:

Standing in Someone Else?s Shoes, Almost for Real
The New York Times, December 1 2008
In a Host of Ailments, Seeing a Brain Out of Rhythm
The New York Times, December 1 2008
Feeling lonely? Genes might be at fault
CNN, December 10 2008
How The Brain Thinks About Crime And Punishment
Science Daily, December 11 2008

For any PEBS related questions: Contact Program Coordinator, Alan Regenberg | alanr@jhu.edu
Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics | 201North Charles, 17th Floor | Baltimore, MD 21201

Full post as published by Neuroethics and Law on December 15, 2008 (boomark / email).