PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: The end is always nigh in the human mind, New Scientist In The Popular Press: It is human nature to cooperate with strangers, New Scientist Traumatic brain injuries in the Asterix comics, Mind Hacks Thoughts on a silicon slide, The Maddow Blog What Makes a Song Commercially Successful? Ask Your Brain, Discover Blogs 80beats Fascinated by Fear, Scientific American A General in the Drug War, New York Times What Are You Looking At? Conservatives May Be Less Sensitive to Certain Social Cues, Scientific American Brain Imaging Study of Preschoolers With ADHD Detects Brain Differences Linked to Symptoms, Science Daily Images capture moment brain goes unconscious, BBC News Psychopharmacology in crisis, Nature News Gene tests for brain injury still far from the football field, Spoonful of Medicine Blog Rule Breaker: When it comes to morality, the philosopher Patricia Churchland refuses to stand on principle, The Chronicle of Higher Education Teen Brain Data May Predict Pop Song Success, Study Finds, Science Daily Brain Scan Identifies Patterns of Plaques and Tangles in Adults With Down Syndrome, Science Daily The Limits of Intelligence, Scientific American Audio Excerpt: The Secret Lives of the Brain, Wired Science From the Academic Literature: From part- to whole-body ownership in the multisensory brain, Current Biology An approach to deep brain stimulation for severe treatment-refractory Tourette syndrome: the UK perspective, British Journal of Neurosurgery Engagement of amygdala in third-person view of face-to-face interaction, Human Brain Mapping Modulating inhibitory control with direct current stimulation of the superior medial frontal cortex, NeuroImage Punishing the Awkward, the Stupid, the Weak, and the Selfish: The Culpability of Negligence, Criminal Law and Philosophy

Subscribe to our mailing list 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.