PEBS Neuroethics Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

Last Edition's Most Popular Article Basic mathematical rules are encoded by primate prefrontal cortex neurons  PNAS January 19 2010 In the Academic Literature: Seeking Assent and Respecting Dissent in Dementia Research  American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2010:18(1):77-85 Activation of groups of excitatory neurons in the mammalian spinal cord or hindbrain evokes locomotion  Nature Neuroscience 2010:13:246-252 Ethical neuroscience  Nature Neuroscience 2010:13:141 Coherent concepts are computed in the anterior temporal lobes  PNAS January 21 2020 Modeling the emergence of universality in color naming patterns  PNAS January 25 2010 Female teachers’ math anxiety affects girls’  math achievement  PNAS January 25 2010 Altruism in Forest Chimpanzees: The Case of Adoption  PLoSONE January 27 2009 Ethical issues in consenting vulnerable patients for neuroscience research  Journal of Psychopharmacology 2010:0(0:1-6 Neural representation of abstract and concrete concepts: A meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies  Human Brain Mapping January 27 2010    Nucleus Accumbens Deep Brain Stimulation Decreases Ratings of Depression and Anxiety in Treatment-Resistant Depression  Biological Psychiatry 2010:67(2):110-116 Neurosurgical treatment for Gilles de la Tourette syndrome: The Italian perspective  Journal of Psychosomatic Research 2010:67(6):58-590 Behavioral effects of subthalamic deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease.  Neuropsychologia 2009:47(14):3203-3209 Deep Brain Stimulation of the Subthalamic Nucleus Facilitates Coordination of Hand Preshaping in PD  International Journal of Neuroscience 2009:119(10):1905-1924 Deep brain stimulation as a new therapeutic approach in therapy-resistant mental disorders European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience 2009:259(spl 2) In the Popular Press: Men prefer less powerful women  Nature News January 26 2010 Everybody Laughs, Everybody Cries: Researchers Identify Universal Emotions  Science Daily January 26 2010    Removing Part of Skull Makes for Better Brain Scans  Wired Science January 22 2010  Never forgetting a face  BBC News Magazine January 25 2010    Brain Scan Offers First Biological Test in Diagnosis of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder  Scientific American January 22 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.