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: Neuroethics and LawPEBS News Roundup from the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics: Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences
By Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
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: In the Popular Press: ·
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
· 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
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$255,000 settlement in controversial pedophile news program case.
Western Culinary Institute
allegedly mislead and ill-prepared students.
Newspaper Employees
Chinese Daily News must pay $5.19 million class action settlement for failing to pay overtime.
Cell Phone Use
Can Increase Risk of Brain Cancer 5 Times
Burger King
Settles Brain Injury Suit for $20 Million
Treasurer Embezzlement
Mary Lou Puccio repays Warren Cheer and Pom Program $26,000 after stealing money.

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