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PEBS News Roundup from the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics: Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences

By Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

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The Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS) is a collaborative neuroethics effort of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Johns Hopkins Brain Sciences Institute. The primary 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 proceeds with an informed understanding of the science. The PEBS News Roundup is a bi-weekly collection of links to new neuroethics stories and papers.

In the Academic Literature: 

·         Visual Image Reconstruction from Human Brain Activity using a Combination of Multiscale Local Image Decoders
Neuron, 2008:60(5):915-929

·         Voodoo Correlations in Social Neuroscience
Perspectives on Psychological Science, In Press December 23, 2008

·         Midbrain Dopamine Receptor Availability Is Inversely Associated with Novelty-Seeking Traits in Humans
The Journal of Neuroscience, 2008:28(53):14372-14378

·         Neuroscience: MRI bebop
Nature, 2008:456:841

·         Neural Substrates of Spontaneous Musical Performance: An fMRI Study of Jazz Improvisation
PLoS One, 2008:3:2

·         Dopaminergic-neuropeptide interactions in the social brain
Trends in Cognitive Science, 2008:10:1016

    In the Popular Press: 

    ·      Popping Smart Pills: the Case for Cognitive Enhancement
    Time, January 6, 2009

    ·      Voodoo fMRI
    Science Blogs, January 5, 2009

    ·      Scientists discover true love
    Times Online, January 4, 2009

    ·      Let Students take drugs to boost brainpower, says leading academic
    Times Online, January 1, 2009

    ·      Nostalgia viewed as therapeutic
         LA Times, December 22, 2008

    ·      Judges Junk Bogus Neuroscience
    New Scientist, December 21 2008

    ·      Blind, Yet Seeing: The Brain?s Subconscious Visual Sense
         New York Times, December 22, 2008


    For any PEBS related questions: Contact Program Coordinator, Alan Regenberg     | alanr@jhu.edu
    Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics | 201North Charles, Suite 1701 | Baltimore, MD 21201

    Full post as published by Neuroethics and Law on January 06, 2009 (boomark / email).

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