PEBS Neuroethics Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

Last Edition's Most Popular Article Ethical neuroscience  Nature Neuroscience 2010:13:141 In the Academic Literature: Willful Modulation of Brain Activity in Disorders of Consciousness  New England Journal of Medicine February 3 2010  Effects of acute psychosocial stress on working memory related brain activity in men  Human Brain Mapping February 2 2010    Event-related potential and functional MRI measures of face-selectivity are highly correlated: A simultaneous ERP-fMRI investigation  Human Brain Mapping February 2 2010   Emotional imagery: Assessing pleasure and arousal in the brain's reward circuitry  Human Brain Mapping February 2 2010    Preparing the ethical future of deep brain stimulation  Surgical Neurology 2010:72(6):577-586    External trial deep brain stimulation device for the application of desynchronizing stimulation techniques  Journal of Neural Engineering 2009:6    Successful Treatment of Chronic Resistant Alcoholism by Deep Brain Stimulation of Nucleus Accumbens: First Experience with Three Cases  Pharmacopsychiatry 2009:42(6):288-291  In the Popular Press:  Coma patients communicates with power of the mind The Sun February 4 2010 Brain scan allows unconscious patient to communicate Nature News February 3 2010   Burrowing US prairie dogs use complex language BBC News February 2 2010 Abstract Thoughts? The Body Takes Them Literally The New York Times February 1 2010 Is the brain half full - or half empty? Practical Ethics February 4 2010 Learning from the Brain: Computer Scientists Develop New Generation of Neuro-Computer Science Daily February 1 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.