PEBS News Roundup from Johns Hopkins

Last Edition's Most Popular Article Gut reactions: moral conviction, religiosity, and trust in authority In the Academic Literature: Torturing the Brain: On the folk psychology and folk neurobiology motivating 'enhanced and coercive interrogation techniques'  Trends in Cognitive Science   Tracking the Emergence of Conceptual Knowledge during Human Decision Making  Neuron 2009:63(6):889-901 The Iowa Gambling Task in fMRI images  Human Brain Mapping September 23 2009  Invasive Circuitry-Based Neurotherapeutics: Stereotactic Ablation and Deep Brain Stimulation for OCD  Neuropsychopharmacology Septeber 16 2009 Concurrent brain-stimulation and neuroimaging for studies of cognition  Trends in Cognitive Science 2009:13(7):319-327   When Do Incidental Mood Effects Last? Lay Beliefs versus Actual Effects  Journal of Consumer Research September 10 2009 Appropriateness of antidepressant prescribing: an observational study in a Scottish primary-care setting  BJGP 2009:59(566):644-649  In the Popular Press: Free will is not an illusion after all  New Scientist September 23 2009 Study warns of red herrings in brain scan data  The Great Beyond September 18 2009  Patient Voices: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder  The New York Times September 21 2009 Better world: Be nice to people  New Scientist September 18 2009 The Holy Grail of the Unconscious  The New York Times September 16 2009 Spinal advance gets rats running  BBC News September 20 2009 Drinking alcohol may make head injuries less harmful Popular Science September 22 2009 Can a daily pill really boost your brain power?  Guardian September 20 2009 What Makes Someone an Addict? The Clinical Definition of Drug "Dependence" Is Flexible, but Still Mislabel Individual Choices as Disorders.  Seed Magazine September 24 2009 Waterboarding Doesn't Work, Scientists Say  Wired Science September 21 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.