PEBS Neuroethics Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

Last Edition's Most Popular Article Brainy Crows Finally Stumped by Intelligence Test Wired Science February 24 2010    In the Academic Literature: The perils of failing to enhance: a response to Persson and Savulescu Journal of Medical Ethics 2010:36:148-151   Body integrity identity disorder: response to Patrone Journal of Medical Ethics 2010:36:189-190 Toward discovery science of human brain function PNAS 2010:107(10):4734-4739 Distributed neural system for general intelligence revealed by lesion mapping PNAS 2010:107(10):4705-4709 Nanowire platform for mapping neural circuits PNAS 2010:107(10):4489-4490 A versus F: The effects of implicit letter priming on cognitive performance British Journal of Educational Psychology 2010:80(1):99-119 How much are clinical fMRI reports influenced by standard postprocessing methods? An investigation of normalization and region of interest effects in the medial temporal lobe Human Brain Mapping March 4 2010 The envious brain: The neural basis of social comparison Human Brain Mapping March 4 2010 Diffusion tensor imaging reliably differentiates patients with schizophrenia from healthy volunteers Human Brain Mapping March 4 2010 In the Popular Press: Using Nanoscale Technologies to Understand and Replicate the Human Brain The Kavli Foundation  Parkinson’s Limits Ability to Read Emotions The New York Times March 4 2010 Aging: Cognitive Decline and Hospitalization The New York Times March 8 2010 Kindness Breeds More Kindness, Study Shows Wired Science March 8 2010   Psychosurgery Makes Gentle Comeback Science Daily March 4 2010 Low Tolerance for Pain May Be Genetic Wired Science March 8 2010 Do fish have personalities? New Scientist 2010:24(3):34 Brain Scans Depict Gulf War Syndrome Damage Wired Science March 10 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.