PEBS Neuroethics Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

Last Edition's Most Popular Article On the relevance of neuroscience to criminal responsibility  Criminal Law and Philosophy November 26 2009  In the Academic Literature: Morphine use after combat injury in Iraq and post-traumatic stress disorder New England Journal of Medicine 2010: 362: 110-7 Preventing the return of fear in humans using reconsolidation update mechanisms Nature 2010:463:49-53    A neurosemantic theory of concrete noun representation based on the underlying brain codes  PLoSONE January 13 2010    Role of the amygdala in antidepressant effects on hippocampal cell proliferation and survival and on depression-like behavior in the rat PLoSONE January 8 2010    How to read a picture: lessons from nonhuman primates  PNAS January 8 2010    Remission of Major Depression Under Deep Brain Stimulation of the Lateral Habenula in a Therapy-Refractory Patient  Biological Psychiatry 2010:66(10):e9-e11    Bithalamical deep brain stimulation in Tourette Syndrome Is associated with reduction in dopaminergic transmission  Biological Psychiatry 2010:66(10):e15-e17  bilateral epidural prefrontal cortical stimulation for treatment-resistant depression Biological Psychiatry 2010:67(2):101-109  Nucleus accumbens deep brain stimulation decreases ratings of depression and anxiety in treatment-resistant depression  Biological Psychiatry 2010:67(2):110-116  Genetic and environmental contributions to neonatal brain structure: a twin study Human Brain Mapping January 8 2010    Observations on unaided smoking cessation after deep brain stimulation of the nucleus accumbens  European Addiction Research 2009:15(4)    Weight changes associated with unilateral STN DBS and advanced PD  Parkinsonism & Related Disorders 2009:15(8):709-711    Waking up the brain: a case study of stimulation-induced wakeful unawareness during anaesthesia  Progress in Brain Research 2009:177:125-145  In the Popular Press: Monkeys go out on a limb to show gratitude Nature News January 12 2010   Deciphering the chatter of monkeys and chimps  The New York Times January 11 2010      The Americanization of mental illness  The New York Times January 8 2010    You won’t find consciousness in the brain  New Scientist January 07 2010    The future of brain-controlled devices  CNN January 4 2009    Major step forward in developing ‘real’  pharmacological cognitive enhancers  Neuroethics at the Core January 12 2010  Burst of neural activity marks transition between not seeing and seeing Science Daily January 14 2010 Before you quit antidepressants… The New York Times January 11 2010

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.