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Ethics

: Neuroethics and Law

PEBS News Roundup from Johns Hopkins

By Adam Kolber

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Last Edition's Most Popular Article

Gut reactions: moral conviction, religiosity, and trust in authority

In the Academic Literature:

Torturing the Brain: On the folk psychology and folk neurobiology motivating 'enhanced and coercive interrogation techniques'
Trends in Cognitive Science
Tracking the Emergence of Conceptual Knowledge during Human Decision Making
Neuron 2009:63(6):889-901
The Iowa Gambling Task in fMRI images
Human Brain Mapping September 23 2009
Invasive Circuitry-Based Neurotherapeutics: Stereotactic Ablation and Deep Brain Stimulation for OCD
Neuropsychopharmacology Septeber 16 2009
Concurrent brain-stimulation and neuroimaging for studies of cognition
Trends in Cognitive Science 2009:13(7):319-327
When Do Incidental Mood Effects Last? Lay Beliefs versus Actual Effects
Journal of Consumer Research September 10 2009
Appropriateness of antidepressant prescribing: an observational study in a Scottish primary-care setting
BJGP 2009:59(566):644-649

In the Popular Press:

Free will is not an illusion after all
New Scientist September 23 2009
Study warns of red herrings in brain scan data
The Great Beyond September 18 2009
Patient Voices: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
The New York Times September 21 2009
Better world: Be nice to people
New Scientist September 18 2009
The Holy Grail of the Unconscious
The New York Times September 16 2009
Spinal advance gets rats running
BBC News September 20 2009
Drinking alcohol may make head injuries less harmful
Popular Science September 22 2009
Can a daily pill really boost your brain power?
Guardian September 20 2009
What Makes Someone an Addict? The Clinical Definition of Drug "Dependence" Is Flexible, but Still Mislabel Individual Choices as Disorders.
Seed Magazine September 24 2009
Waterboarding Doesn't Work, Scientists Say
Wired Science September 21 2009

The Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS) is a collaborative effort of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Johns Hopkins Brain Sciences Institute . The 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 proceed with an informed understanding of the science.

Full post as published by Neuroethics and Law on September 28, 2009 (boomark / email).