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.