PEBS Neuroethics Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Hallucinogens Have Doctors Tuning In Again, NY Times In the Popular Press: Ultrathin Silk-Based Electronics Make Better Brain Implants, Wired Science  Apes found suffering self-doubt, New Scientist Brewing up identity with Billy Bragg, Nature News Arguing about moral responsibility, Practical Ethics  Robots with skin enter our touchy-feely world, New Scientist  Briefing: New law claims a fetus can feel pain, New Scientist Empathetic mirror neurons found in humans at last, New Scientist April 16 2010 From the Academic Literature: New Guidelines Aim to Improve Studies of Traumatic Brain Injury, Science  Dissolvable films of silk fibroin for ultrathin conformal bio-integrated electronics, Nature Materials Deontological and altruistic guilt: Evidence for distinct neurobiological substrates, Human Brain Mapping Reward and motivation systems: A brain mapping study of early-stage intense romantic love in Chinese participants, Human Brain Mapping  Grammar improvement following deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic and the pedunculopontine nuclei in advanced Parkinson's disease: A pilot study, Parkinsonism & Related Disorders  Long-term effects of bilateral deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus on depression in patients with Parkinson’s disease, Parkinsonism & Related Disorders