PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: What chatbots talk about when humans aren't around, New Scientist In The Popular Press: Disabled Patients Mind-Meld With Robots, Science Now The Albertani Case in Italy (Bottalico), Neuroethics & Law Blog Brain scans reduce murder sentence in Italian court, New Scientist Young blood rejuvenates old brains, Guardian Big Steps Forward in Human Functional Brain Imaging, but Collaborations Key to Patient Benefit, Science Daily Psychobabble: It's a sin..., The Twenty-First Floor  Mindful Medicine: How meditation relieves the subjective experience of pain, Scientific American Mental disorders affect more than a third of Europeans, Nature News Quantum minds: Why we think like quarks, New Scientist Animal Imagination: The Dog That Pretend to Feed a Frog (and Other Tales), Scientific American Chronic Ketamine for Depression: An Unethical Case Study?, The Neurocritic  Your Brain on Politics: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Liberals and Conservatives, Discover Following the Crowd: Changing Your Mind to Fit In May Not Be a Conscious Choice, Scientific American Dolphins call each other by name, New Scientist  The NeuroSocial Network, BrainBlogger From the Academic Literature: A Gustotopic Map of Taste Qualities in the Mammalian Brain, Science Glutamatergic and Dopaminergic Neurons Mediate Anxiogenic and Anxiolytic Effects of CRHR1, Science A new tablet for writing and drawing during functional MRI, Human Brain Mapping Neuroscience: When lights take the circuits out, Nature Internal representations reveal cultural diversity in expectations of facial expressions of emotion, Journal of Experimental Psychology  Sustaining citizenship: people with dementia and the phenomenon of social death, Nursing Ethics

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.