PEBS Neuroethics Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

Last Edition's Most Popular Article The Americanization of mental illness  The New York Times January 8 2010  In the Academic Literature: Neuroscience: The most vulnerable brains  Nature 2010:463:154-156 Neuroscience: Astrocytes as aide-mémoires  Nature 2010:463:169-170 Evidence for grid cells in a human memory network  Nature 2010 January 20 2010 Genetically Increased Cell-Intrinsic Excitability Enhances Neuronal Integration into Adult Brain Circuits  Neuron 2010:65(1):32-30  Heritability of the Specific Cognitive Ability of Face Perception  Cell Biology January 7 2010    Nanowire transistor arrays for mapping neural circuits in acute brain slices  PNAS January 19 2010 Basic mathematical rules are encoded by primate prefrontal cortex neurons  PNAS January 19 2010 Reduction of Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis Confers Vulnerability in an Animal Model of Cocaine Addiction  The Journal of Neuroscience 2010:30(1):304-315 Alleviation of drenching sweats following subthalamic deep brain stimulation in a patient with Parkinson's disease — A case report  Journal of Neurological Sciences 2009:285(1-2):246-249 Neurolaw  Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science 2010:1(1):18-22 Brain-reading of perceived colors reveals a feature mixing mechanism underlying perceptual filling-in in cortical area V1  Human Brain Mapping January 19 2010  Stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus and impulsivity: Release your horses  Annals of Neurology 2009:66(6):817-824 Impulsive and compulsive behaviors in Parkinson's disease  Movement Disorders 2009:24(11):1561-1570 Deep brain stimulation and cognitive functions in Parkinson's disease: A three-year controlled study  Movement Disorders 2009:24(11):1621-1628 Unsupervised statistical learning underpins computational, behavioural, and neural manifestations of musical expectation  NeuroImage December 11 2009  In the Popular Press: Scientists Find a Shared Gene in Dogs With Compulsive Behavior  The New York Times January 18 2010 Rude Awakening: How the media frenzy around a Belgian man misdiagnosed as being in a vegetative state came to haunt the doctor who treated him.  Newsweek January 7 2010 Bornean orangutan acts as ‘peacemaker' in Japan zoo  BBC Earth News January 20 2010   How is the internet changing the way that you think?  Neuroethics at the Core January 15 2010 Some Social Skills May Be Genetic  Wired Science January 19 2010 Face Recognition Ability Inherited Separately from IQ  Science Daily January 20 2010 Video Game Success May Be in the Mind BBC News January 20 2010  Brain asymmetry eases hypnotic trance  New Scientist January 20 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.