PEBS News Roundup from Johns Hopkins

Last Edition's Most Popular Article Doctors missing consciousness in vegetative patients New Scientist July 21 2009 In the Academic Literature: Cognitive Enhancement: Methods, Ethics, Regulatory Challenges Science and Engineering Ethics September 2009: 15(3):311-41 Keeping in Touch with One's Self: Multisensory Mechanisms of Self-Consciousness  PLoSONE August 5 2009 Neural Correlates of Appetite and Hunger-Related Evaluative Judgments  PLoSONE August 12 2009 Cellular Basis of Itch Sensation   Science August 6 2009 Functional neuroimaging and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from vegetative patients  Journal of Medical Ethics 2009:35:508-511 Brain structure and obesity  Human Brain Mapping August 6 2009 Traditional Chinese acupuncture and placebo (sham) acupuncture are differentiated by their effects on μ-opioid receptors (MORs)  NeuroImage 2009:47(3):1077-1085 Functional neurosurgery for movement disorders: a historical perspective  Progress in Brain Research 2009:175:379-391  Transgenic reporter mice as tools for studies of transplantability and connectivity of dopamine neuron precursors in fetal tissue grafts  Progress in Brain Research 2009:175:53-79  ECT for Parkinson's disease  Medical Hypothesis August 5 2009 Behavioral Effects of Subthalamic Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson's Disease  Neuropsychologia August 5 2009 Subthalamic nucleus stimulation affects subjective emotional experience in Parkinson's disease patients  Neuropsychologia 2009:47:1928-1937  Brain penetration effects of microelectrodes and deep brain stimulation leads in ventral intermediate nucleus stimulation for essential tremor  Journal of Neurosurgery Ahead of Print  In the Popular Press: After Injury, Fighting to Regain a Sense of Self  The New York Times August 8 2009 Why humans can talk and chimps can't  New Scientist August 12 2009 Five-Second Touch Can Convey Specific Emotion, Study Finds  The New York Times August 10 2009 Symposium Announcement: Human Enhancement: What should be permitted?  Practical Ethics August 12 2009 A Pungent Life: The Smells in My Head  The New York Times August 10 2009 Artificial Brains and Personal Identity  Practical Ethics August 7 2009 Optimistic women 'live longer'  BBC News August 10 2009 Killer whales visit 'social clubs'  BBC News August 12 2009  Traffic Jam In Brain Causes Schizophrenia Symptoms; First Mouse To Develop Disease As Teenager, Just Like Humans  Science Daily August 11 2009 Researchers Unravel Mystery Behind Long-lasting Memories  Science Daily August 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. 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