Last Edition's Most Popular Article

• Scientific and ethical issues related to deep brain stimulation for disorders of mood, behavior, and thought
  Archives of General Psychiatry 2009:66(9):931-937

In the Academic Literature:

• No evidence for disease-like processes in fetal transplants
  PNAS September 2 2009
  
  
• Disease-like degeneration in neural transplants
  PNAS September 2 2009
  
  
• Dopamine in motor cortex Is necessary for skill learning and synaptic plasticity
  PLoSONE September 17 2009
  
  
• With new prenatal testing, will babies with Down syndrome slowly disappear?
  Archives of Disease in Childhood September 15 2009
  
  
• Gut reactions: moral conviction, religiosity, and trust in authority
  Psychological Science 2009:20(9):1059-1063
  
  
• The study of animal metacognition
  Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2009:13(9):389-396
  
  
• Low-cost travel in neurons
  Science 2009:325(5946):1349-1351
  
  
• Neurologisms
  American Journal of Bioethics 2009:9(9):1
  
  
• Mirror neurons and the reenchantment of bioethics
  American Journal of Bioethics 2009:9(9):2-4
  
  
• The subjective brain, identity, and neuroethics
  American Journal of Bioethics 2009:9(9):5-13
  
  
• Questioning the methodologic superiority of ‘placebo’ over ‘active’ controlled trials
  American Journal of Bioethics 2009:9(9):34-48
  

In the Popular Press:

• Science is forcing sports to re-examine their core principles
  The New York Times September 12 2009
  
  
  
• Human brains better tooled up than monkeys
  New Scientist September 16 2009
  
  
  
• Icy stares and dirty minds: Hitch-hiking emotions
  New Scientist September 15 2009
  
  
  
• Optical illusions may seem to deceive, but they actually reveal truths about how our brains construct reality
  Seed Magazine September 16 2009
  
  
  
• Fake video can convince witnesses to give false testimony
  Wired Science September 14 2009
  
  
  
• Neurons found to be similar to U.S. Electoral College
  Science Daily September 15 2009
  
  
  
• In the middle of brain surgery, patients wake up and begin talking
  Science Daily September 13 2009