PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

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Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Enhancing Morality (John Harris and Julian Savulescu - video), iai In The Popular Press How Free Is Free Will?, Johns Hopkins Magazine   Operation Delirium, The New Yorker Understanding How Children Develop Empathy, New York Times Well Blog Psychiatry’s New Rules Threaten to Turn Grieving Into a Sickness, Wired Science Eye-Opener: Why Do Pupils Dilate in Response to Emotional States?, Scientific American The Not So Seductive Allure of Colorful Brain Images, The Neurocritic Alzheimer's Breakthrough? Drug Intended for Diabetes Appears to Restore Memory in Alzheimer’s Brain Cells, Science Daily A Tense Compromise on Defining Disorders, New York Times Health   You scratch, I scratch! The social contagion of itch, Scientific American The war on drugs and alcohol is a war against human nature, The Guardian Neurodiversity and autism: where do we draw the line?, The Neuroethics Blog Pacemaker-like device studied in Alzheimer's treatment, CBS News Q&A: Oliver Sacks on Hallucinations, Time Health & Family Why You Like to Watch the Same Thing Over and Over and Over Again, Scientific American Target faulty brain circuits to treat mental illness, New Scientist    From the Academic Literature: Confidence in value-based choice, Nature Neuroscience Can decision-making skills affect responses to psychological stress in healthy women?, Psychoneuroendocrinology  The effect of verbal context on olfactory neural responses, Human Brain Mapping Functional neuroimaging of circardian fatigue, International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology Levels of Soluble Platelet Endothelial Cell Adhesion Molecule-1 and P-Selectin Are Decreased in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Biological Psychiatry Individual Differences in Amygdala-Medial Prefrontal Anatomy Link Negative Affect, Impaired Social Functioning, and Polygenic Depression Risk, The Journal of 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.