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Ethics

: Neuroethics and Law

PEBS News Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

By Adam Kolber

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Last Edition's Most Popular Article

fMRI evidence used in murder sentencing
Science Insider November 23 2009

In the Academic Literature:

Believers' estimates of God's beliefs are more egocentric than estimates of other people's beliefs
PNAS December 2 2009
Human medial temporal lobe neurons respond preferentially to personally relevant images
PNAS December 1 2009
The neural correlates of sex differences in emotional reactivity and emotion regulation
Human Brain Mapping December 2 2009
Classical MHCI molecules regulate retinogeniculate refinement and limit ocular dominance plasticity
Neuron 2009:64(4):463-470
Cognition without control: when a little frontal lobe goes a long way
Current Directions in Psychological Science 2009:18(5):259-263
Neuroscience: unbearable lightness of touch
Nature 2009:462:580-581
Rapid formation and selective stabilization of synapses for enduring motor memories
Nature November 29 2009
Neural art appraisal of painter: Dali or Picasso?
Neuro Report 2009:20(18):1630-1633

In the Popular Press:

Live feed: lab dissection HM's brain
Project H.M
Story? Unforgettable. The audience? Often not.
The New York Times November 30 2009
Neurolaw in the news
The Law and Neurosciences Blog December 2 2009
'Temple of the mind' unlocked
Nature News November 29 2009
Surgery for mental ills offers both hope and risk
New York Times November 26 2009
How to lose friends and alienate people by disrupting the brain
Charter's Daily Deal December 1 2009
Men and women 'respond differently to danger'
BBC News November 30 2009
Lonliness may be contagious
Wired Science December 1 2009
Coherent after coma? Not so sure
MSNBC November 24 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 December 07, 2009 (boomark / email).