PEBS News Roundup from Johns Hopkins

Blogging From Neuroscience Boot Camp The Law and Neuroscience Blog In the Academic Literature: Expectations regarding cognitive enhancement create substantial challenges Journal of Medical Ethics 2009:35:469-470 Emergence of a Stable Cortical Map for Neuroprosthetic Control PLoS Biology July 21 2009 Flexible Learning of Multiple Speech Structures in Bilingual Infants Science 2009:325(5940):611-612 Chronic Stress Causes Frontostriatal Reorganization and Affects Decision-Making Science 2009:325(5940):621-625 Observations on Unaided Smoking Cessation after Deep Brain Stimulation of the Nucleus Accumbens European Addiction Research 2009:15(4) Neurosecurity: security and privacy for neural devices Journal of Neurosurgery 2009:27(1) Preparing the ethical future of deep brain stimulation Surgical Neurology Online New insights into the relationship of neurogenesis and affect: Tickling induces hippocampal cell proliferation in rats emitting appetitive 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations Neuroscience July 26 2009 National Patterns in Antidepressant Medication Treatment Archives of General Psychiatry Dyslexia: A New Synergy Between Education and Cognitive Neuroscience   Science 2009:325(5938):280-283 Foundations for a New Science of Learning   Science 2009:325(5938):284-288 Human-Android Interaction in the Near and Distant Future  Perspectives on Psychological Science 2009:4(4):429-434 Independence in ROI analysis: where is the voodoo?  Social and Affective Neuroscience 2009:4(2):208-213 Inside the brain of an elite athlete: the neural processes that support high achievement in sports  Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2009:10(8) Prefrontal cortex and cognitive control: motivating functional hierarchies  Nature Neuroscience 2009:12(7) Are there theory of mind regions in the brain? A review of the neuroimaging literature  Human Brain Mapping 2009:30(8):2313-2335 In the Popular Press: Asperger's Syndrome, on Screen and in Life The New York Times August 3 2009  Brain (minus machine) interface The Scientist July 21 2009 Chimps born to appreciate music BBC News July 30 2009 Did an ice age boost human brain size? New Scientist July 29 2009 Temptation More Power Than Individuals Realize Science Daily August 4 2009   Researchers Train Minds to Move Matter The New York Times July 20 2009 How Money Messes With Your Mind The New York Times July 20 2009 The fMRI Brain Scan: A Better Lie Detector? Time July 20 2009 Blind Can Take Wheel With Newly Designed Vehicle Science Daily July 16 2009 Brain's Center For Perceiving 3-D Motion Is Identified Science Daily July 21 2009 A piercing image of Phineas Gage Los Angeles Times July 16 2009 Youtube as neuroscience resource hub Brainethics July 17 2009 Doctors missing consciousness in vegetative patients New Scientist July 21 2009 Artificial brain '10 years away' BBC News July 22 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.