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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:

Sleep benefits subsequent hippocampal functioning
Nature Neuroscience January 18, 2009
Neurology: Serotonin and social anxiety
Nature 2009:457:360
Serotonin Transporter Genotype Modulates Social Reward and Punishment in Rhesus Macaques
PLoS ONE 4(1):e4156.doi:10.1371
Alteration learning in social anxiety disorder: An fMRI study
World Journal of Biological Psychiatry January 19, 2009
Reinforcement Learning Signal Predicts Social Conformity
Neuron 2009:61:140-151
The Polycomb Group Gene Bmi1 Regulates Antioxidant Defenses in Neurons by Repressing p53 Pro-Oxidant Activity
Journal of Neuroscience 2009:29(2):529-542

In the Popular Press:

Racial Bias Can Be Reduced By Teaching People To Differentiate Facial Features Better In Individuals Of A Different Race
Science Daily January 20, 2009

Sex and Depression: In the Brain, if Not the Mind
New York Times January 19, 2009
Scientists Discover Gene Responsible For Brain's Aging
Science Daily January 18, 2009
How to Lift Your Mood? Try Smiling
Time January 16, 2009

Brain Mechanisms of Social Conformity
Science Daily January 16, 2009
Doubts raised over brain scan findings
New Scientist January 14, 2009

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 22, 2009 (boomark / email).