Neuroethics Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Jury Reaches Decision in Brain-Scan Test Case, Wired Science In the Popular Press: Brain-boosting bacterium helps mice conquer a maze twice as fast, Discover/80 Beats Mistakes in silicon chips help boost computer power, BBC News Bumpology: What does an amniotic cocktail taste like? NewScientist Health Testosterone makes people suspicious of one another, Wired Science The fiction of affliction in addiction, Practical Ethics Love on the global brain, New York Times Swarming 'swells' locusts' brains, BBC News Could humans be infected by 'computer viruses'?, ScienceDaily From the Academic Literature: Neuroscience: The rat pack, Nature Cognition following bilateral DBS surgery of the STN for Parkinson's disease, Int'l Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry Identification of an immune-responsive mesolimbocortical serotonergic system: potential role in regulation of emotional behavior, Neuroscience Playing god, playing adam: The politics and ethics of enhancement, Bioethical Inquiry Secondary failure after ten years of pallidal neurostimulation in a patient with advanced Parkinson's disease, Journal of Neural Transmission A unique adolescent response to reward prediction errors, 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.