PEBS News Roundup from Johns Hopkins

Last Edition's Most Popular Article Ethics of  human enhancement: 25 questions and answers  National Science Foundation  In the Academic Literature: 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  Like Infant, Like Dog  Science 2009:325(5945):1213-1214  Erasing Fear Memories  Science 2009:325(5945):1214-1215  Perineuronal Nets Protect Fear Memories from Erasure  Science 2009:325(5945):1258-1261  Differential Sensitivity to Human Communication in Dogs, Wolves, and Human Infants  Science 2009:325(5945):1269-1272  Positive Interactions Promote Public Cooperation  Science 2009:325(5945);1272-1275  Deep brain stimulation, deontology and duty: the moral obligation of non-abandonment at the neural interface  Journal of Neural Engineering 2009:6(5)  Knocking Out Pain in Livestock: Can Technology Succeed Where Morality has Stalled?  Neuroethics August 20 2009  Losing One's Hand: Visual-Proprioceptive Conflict Affects Touch Perception  PLoSONE 2009:4(9)  Functional Neurosurgery in the Treatment of Severe Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Major Depression: Overview of Disease Circuits and Therapeutic Targeting for the Clinician  Psychiatry 2009:5(9):24-33 In the Popular Press: Grrr, Sniff, Arf  The New York Times September 8 2009  Monkey Brains Signal The Desire To Explore  Science Daily September 6 2009 Forgotten Memories Are Still in Your Brain  Wired Science September 9 2009 Eyes see trouble coming before brain notices  New Scientist September 6 2009  Robot to be controlled by human brain cells  New Scientist September 9 2009  Does brain training really work?  BBC News September 7 2009  Chimps imitate yawning animations  BBC News September 8 2009  Stroke cures man's failing sight  BBC News September 2 2009  How do new ways of seeing the brain change how we see ourselves?  Interior Traces   Deep Brain Stimulation for Severe Alcoholism  The Neurocritic September 9 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.