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

July 2, 2009

Last Edition's Most Popular Article ·     How food makers captured our brains     NY Times June 22 2009 In the Academic Literature: Personal identity and fractured selves Johns Hopkins Univ Press (forthcoming)  Disrupting disordered neurocircuitry: treating refractory psychiatric illness with neuromodulation Mayo Clinic Proc June 2009; 84(6):522-32 Dynamic interactions between musical, cardiovascular and cerebral rhythms in humans Circulation 2009; 119:3171-80 The brain collector Science June 26 2009; 324 Dopamine dysregulation syndrome, impulse control disorders and punding after deep brain stimulation surgery for Parkinson’s disease J Clin Neurosc June 23 2009; Available online Deep brain stimulation for schizophrenia Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 2009; 87:266 Functional and anatomical connectivity abnormalities in left inferior frontal gyrus in schizophrenia Human Brain Mapping June 30 2009; published online Somatosensory working memory performance in humans depends on both engagement and disengagement of regions in a distributed network Human Brain Mapping June 30 2009; published online In the Popular Press ·        A biology of mental disorder  Newsweek June 27 2009 ·        Chasing genetic ghosts of mental illness PsychCentral Blog June 29 2009 ·         Disorderly genius: how chaos drives the brain  NewScientist June 29 2009 ·         Chimpanzees learn from video demo  BBC News July 1  2009 ·         Toyota technology has brain waves move wheelchair  Times-Tribune July 2 2009 ·         A helping hand for addicts  Nature News June 25 2009 ·         Reading the brains of pigeons in flight  NY Times June 25 2009 ·        Calculating consumer happiness at any price  NY Times June 29 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. With the PEBS Neuroethics News Roundup, we will present a weekly survey of the most pertinent and thought-provoking new articles from both peer-reviewed academic journals and the popular press.  Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics | 201 North Charles, Suite 1701  Baltimore, MD 21201 | Office: 410-625-7871  Archived editions of PEBS Neuroethics News Round Up www.bioethicsinstitute.org/neuroethics