PEBS Neuroethics Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Can Animals Be Gay? NY Times In the Popular Press: Hallucinogens Have Doctors Tuning In Again, NY Times Children who form no racial stereotypes found, Nature News Chimps reject unfairness to their fellows, New Scientist Neuroethics and the President's New Commission, Neuroethics & Law Blog Mapping the Fly Brain, Neuron by Neuron, Wired Science Copycats Prevail in Computer Survival Game, Wired Science Bionic Eye in Sight: Wide-View Neurostimulator Concept Unveiled, Science Daily Empathy and Violence Have Similar Circuits in the Brain, Research Suggests, Science Daily Simple Test Can Detect Signs of Suicidal Thoughts in People Taking Antidepressants, Science Daily Magnets make morals moot? Neuroethics at the Core Blog The Depiction of Addiction, Neuroethics at the Core Blog Memristors Getting Closer to Ultra-Fast, Brain-Like Computing, Says HP, Discover Magazine Blog Mirror Neurons Join Marilyn Monroe Neurons and Halle Berry Neurons in the Human Hippocampus, The Neurocritic Blog AAN: Smarter mice, Nature In the Field Blog Violence and Empathy: Brain Bedfellows, The Center for Law and the Biosciences Blog From the Academic Literature: An fMRI study of self-reflection about body image: Sex differences, Personality and Individual Differences Cosmetic Neurology: Slipping Down the Slippery Slope,Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics Brain functional changes (QEEG cordance) and worsening suicidal ideation and mood symptoms during antidepressant treatment, Acta Psychiatric Scandinavica Why Copy Others? Insights from the Social Learning Strategies Tournament, Science Did Working Memory Spark Creative Culture? Science Sustained experience of emotion after loss of memory in patients with amnesia, PNAS A meeting of minds, Nature Medicine Single-Neuron Responses in Humans during Execution and Observation of Actions, Current Biology

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.