PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Love and other drugs, or why parents should chemically enhance their marriages, Practical Ethics In The Popular Press: Parkinson’s Drug May Help With Brain Injuries, Report Finds, New York Times Men Think Sex After Seeing Red Dress, Wired Science  Understanding the brain on dance, BBC News Health In the Brain, Broken Hearts Hurt Like Broken Bones, Time Healthland Life, With Dementia, New York Times Health The Four Million Dollar Philosopher, 3:AM Magazine Cocktail of Popular Drugs May Cloud Brain, New York Times Well Blog The Prosthetics Breakthrough That Could Fuse Nerves With Fake Limbs, Gizmodo Is there a moral argument for including more common behavioural phenomena in the DSMV?, Practical Ethics Fixing the unfixable: Can we mend our brains?, New Scientist  Moral choices show we are deeply split, The New Scientist Russian Mogul Plans to Plant Our Brains in Robots and Keep Them Alive Forever, Gizmodo Chelsea Handler and Addiction as Identity, Scientific American Sniffing Rosemary Makes You Smarter, Gizmodo 2012 Neuro Film Festival, Neurocritic The elusive hypothesis of Baroness Greenfield, The Guardian Edinburgh scientists grow human brain cells to study mental illness, BBC News The Man Working To Reverse-Engineer Your Brain, NPR Books From the Academic Literature: Clear up this fuzzy thinking on brain scans, Nature Social science: Carrot or stick?, Nature Facilitation of AMPA Receptor Synaptic Delivery as a Molecular Mechanism for Cognitive Enhancement, PLoS Biology The impact of orbitofrontal dysfunction on cocaine addiction, Nature Neuroscience  Dynamic decision making in the brain, Nature Neuroscience  Are People More Aggressive When They Are Worse Off or Better Off Than Others?, Social Psychological & Personality Science Suspicious Minds: Exploring Neural Processes During Exposure to Deceptive Advertising, Journal of Marketing Research Structure of orbitofrontal cortex predicts social influence, Current Biology EGFR Kinase Promotes Acquisition of Stem Cell-Like Properties: A Potential Therapeutic Target in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Stem Cells, PLoSONE Predicting vocal emotion expressions from the human brain, Human Brain Mapping

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