PEBS Neuroethics Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

Last Edition's Most Popular Article Why We Cant Separate Science and Ethics Science Progress December 18 In the Academic Literature: Reducing the desire for cocaine with subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation  PNAS December 28 2009 High-performance genetically targetable optical neural silencing by light-driven proton pumps Nature January 7 2009 Listening to tailor-made notched music reduces tinnitus loudness and tinnitus-related auditory cortex activity  PNAS December 28 2009 Neurodynamics of mental exploration  PNAS December 28 2009 Don't forget the artists when studying perception of art  Nature 2009:463:984    Reproducibility Distinguishes Conscious from Nonconscious Neural Representations  Science 2009:327(5961):97-99 Somatotopic organization of pain responses to direct electrical stimulation of the human insular cortex  Pain 2009:146(1-2):99-104 Evaluating self-generated decisions in frontal pole cortex of monkeys  Nature Neuroscience 2009:13:120-126 Rewiring of hindlimb corticospinal neurons after spinal cord injury  Nature Neuroscience 2009:13:97-104 On the Relevance of Neuroscience to Criminal Responsibility  Criminal Law and Philosophy November 26 2009  In the Popular Press: How to Train the Aging Brain  New York Times December 29 2009    Chimps use cleavers and anvils as tools to chop food  BBC Earth News December 24 2009    Molecules and synapses cement memories, say scientists  BBC News December 24 2009     Wild Chimps Have Near Human Understanding of Fire  Science Daily December 23 2009    Tweeting the brain  Neuroethics at the Core December 23 2009   Neuroethics & the Trolley Dilemma  Youtube October 23 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.