PEBS Neuroethics Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

Last Edition's Most Popular Article Neuroscientists don't believe in souls--But that doesn't mean they can't sell theirs Scientific American March 24 2010 In the Academic Literature: Bioethics Conferences 2010: Bioprediction Washington DC May 8-9. Register here  Memory sticks Nature 2010:464:948 The Inner Workings of the Chimpanzee Brain Science 2010:328(5974):40-41  Synchrony of Thalamocortical Inputs Maximizes Cortical Reliability Science 2010:328(5974):206-109 Neuronal synchrony reveals working memory networks and predicts individual memory capacity PNAS April 5 2010 Persistent schema-dependent hippocampal-neocortical connectivity during memory encoding and postencoding rest in humans PNAS April 5 2010 Changes of emotional prosody in Parkinson's disease Journal of the Neurological Sciences 2010:289(1-2):32-35 Non-motor functions in parkinsonian patients implanted in the pedunculopontine nucleus: Focus on sleep and cognitive domains Journal of the Neurological Sciences 2010:289(1-2):44-48 Assessment of the effects of subthalamic stimulation in Parkinson disease patients by artificial neural network Engineering in Medicine and Biological Society 2009:3-6:5673-5676 Law & Psychiatry: Genetic Discrimination in Mental Disorders: The Impact of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act Psychiatric Services 2010:61:338-341 In the Popular Press: Can Animals Be Gay? The New York Times Marc 29 2010 Seeking Emotional Clues Without Facial Cues The New York Times April 5 2010 From a Songbird, New Insights Into the Brain The New York Times April 5 2010 How to build ethical understanding into pilotless war planes The Economist March 31 2010 Are 'smart drugs' safe for students? Guardian April 6 2010 Newsroom: Scientists Successfully Teach Gorilla It Will Die Someday The Onion (Belated April Fool's!) Carbon dioxide may explain 'near death experiences' Science Daily April 7 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.