PEBS Neuroethics Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Briefing: New law claims a fetus can feel pain, New Scientist In the Popular Press: Chimps ‘ feel death like humans’, BBC News Hunter-gatherer Children Seek Food, In the Field Do You Eat Chocolate to Relieve Depression–or Does Chocolate Make You Depressed?, Discover The Conversation: Brain research brings wonders and worries, The Sacramento Bee The Neurobiology of Social Anxiety Disorder, Brain Blogger The Brain Rejects Inequality, Brain Blogger The secrets of intelligence lie within a single cell, New Scientist Brain shuts off in response to healer's prayer. New Scientist Personality May Influence Brain Shrinkage in Aging, Science Daily Psychopaths and Rational Morality, The Frontal Cortex From the Academic Literature: Not so Fast. On Some Bold Neuroscientific Claims Concerning Human Agency, Neuroethics Neuroscience: Each synapse to its own, Nature Why fairness pays, Nature Neural basis of extraordinary empathy and altruistic motivation, Neuroimage Different amygdala subregions mediate valence-related and attentional effects of oxytocin in humans, PNAS Evolution-guided discovery and recoding of allosteric pathway specificity determinants in psychoactive bioamine receptors, PNAS Imaging genetics and development: Challenges and promises, Human Brain Mapping Empathy constrained: Prejudice predicts reduced mental simulation of actions during observation of outgroups, Journal of Experimental Psychology Slitrk5 deficiency impairs corticostriatal circuitry and leads to obsessive-compulsive–like behaviors in mice, Nature Medicine Cheesecake-eating rats and the question of food addiction, Nature Neuroscience  Anxious interactions, Nature Neuroscience Just a little (lateral prefrontal) patience, Nature Neuroscience

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.