PEBS News Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

Last Edition's Most Popular Article Clever fools: Why a high IQ doesn't mean you're smart  New Scientist November 2 2009  In the Academic Literature: Human-specific transcriptional regulation of CNS development genes by FOXP2 Nature 2009:462:213-217 Visually evoked activity in cortical cells imaged in freely moving animals PNAS November 4 2009 Newborns' cry melody is shaped by their native language  Current Biology November 5 2009 Hematopoietic stem cell gene therapy with a lentiviral vector in x-linked adrenoleukodystrophy  Science 2009:326(5954):818-823 Origins: on the origin of religion  Science 2009:326(5954):784-787  The privileged brain representation of first olfactory associations  Current Biology November 5 2009 In the Popular Press: Human-chimp gene comparison hints at roots of language Wired November 11 2009 A dream interpretation: tuneups for the brain  New York Times November 9 2009 How your brain sees virtual you  New Scientist November 6 2009 The artificial hand that can 'feel'  CNN November 6 2009 The short life of a diagnosis   New York Times November 9 2009 Brain disease treated by gene therapy   Nature News November 5 2009  Do chimps understand what Jon Stewart (or another chimp) believes? Cogntive Daily November 10 2009 The peeriodic table of illusions New Scientist, November 12, 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.