PEBS News Roundup from Johns Hopkins

Last Edition's Most Popular Article Scientific and ethical issues related to deep brain stimulation for disorders of mood, behavior, and thought  Archives of General Psychiatry 2009:66(9):931-937 In the Academic Literature: No evidence for disease-like processes in fetal transplants  PNAS September 2 2009 Disease-like degeneration in neural transplants  PNAS September 2 2009 Dopamine in motor cortex Is necessary for skill learning and synaptic plasticity PLoSONE September 17 2009 With new prenatal testing, will babies with Down syndrome slowly disappear?  Archives of Disease in Childhood September 15 2009 Gut reactions: moral conviction, religiosity, and trust in authority  Psychological Science 2009:20(9):1059-1063 The study of animal metacognition  Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2009:13(9):389-396 Low-cost travel in neurons  Science 2009:325(5946):1349-1351 Neurologisms   American Journal of Bioethics 2009:9(9):1  Mirror neurons and the reenchantment of bioethics  American Journal of Bioethics 2009:9(9):2-4 The subjective brain, identity, and neuroethics  American Journal of Bioethics 2009:9(9):5-13 Questioning the methodologic superiority of 'placebo' over 'active' controlled trials  American Journal of Bioethics 2009:9(9):34-48  In the Popular Press: Science is forcing sports to re-examine their core principles  The New York Times September 12 2009 Human brains better tooled up than monkeys  New Scientist September 16 2009 Icy stares and dirty minds: Hitch-hiking emotions  New Scientist September 15 2009 Optical illusions may seem to deceive, but they actually reveal truths about how our brains construct reality  Seed Magazine September 16 2009 Fake video can convince witnesses to give false testimony  Wired Science September 14 2009 Neurons found to be similar to U.S. Electoral College  Science Daily September 15 2009 In the middle of brain surgery, patients wake up and begin talking  Science Daily September 13 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.