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The Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics Neuroethics Program, the Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS) represents the first formal collaboration between 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 and sophisticated understanding of attendant ethical and social issues, and that philosophical and empirical analysis of the advances in brain research proceeds with an informed and sophisticated understanding of the science.
Founded in 2003, PEBS is currently focusing on concepts that are critical to understanding the moral dimensions of scientific advances in our understanding of the brain and the clinical management of disease and injury therein, such as—personal identity, moral responsibility and free will, and the meaning of the neural basis of morality. Past projects include a consensus conference that gathered key stakeholders to discuss the scientific and ethical challenges associated with deep brain stimulation for disorders of mood, behavior and thought. PEBS is an interdisciplinary endeavor, both in subject and in membership. Group discussion ranges from moral philosophy to novel therapeutic approaches to disease and from public policy to basic science.
Co-Directors
Hilary Bok, Ph.D., Henry R. Luce Professor of Bioethicsand Moral and Political Theory, Department of Philosophy; Core Faculty, Berman Institute
Peter V. Rabins, M.D., M.P.H., Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences; Director, Geriatric Psychiatry; Core Faculty, Berman Institute Assistant Director for Science Programs
Personal Indentity Symposium
Working Group on Interspecific Chimeric Brains
Neurotherapeutics
Working Group on Human Trials of Cell-Based Interventions for Neruological Conditions
Deep Brain Stimulation for Disorders of Mood, Behavior and Though: Scientific and Ethical Issues
Free Will and Moral Responsbility: Implications of Advances in Neuroscience
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