PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

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Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Let's Talk About 'Precrime', Neuroethics Blog In The Popular Press: Mostly the big-brained survive, Nature News Immune Drug Shows Promise for Alzheimer's, The Wall Street Journal Artificial intelligence to sniff out bankers' scams, New Scientist  Does Thinking Really Hard Burn More Calories?, Scientific American Scientists' agony over ecstasy, The Guardian What Does Your Walking Speed Say About Your Alzheimer’s Risk?, Time Healthland "Neuroscience Meets Cryptography" with Manchurian Candidate Undertones, Neuroethics & Law Blog Paul Zak, Oxytocin Skeptic?, The Neurocritic   Trying to Resist Temptation? Think about God, Scientific American No, the web is not driving us mad, Mind Hacks Placebo for Psychogenic Illnesses: Why “It’s all in my head” does and doesn’t matter, Nature Blogs Soapbox Science The media should not pass judgment on mental health, The Guardian Dr. Karen Rommelfanger Discusses How Neuroscience Challenges Our Values, Emory Center for Ethics Neuron forest grows out of brain trauma experiment, New Scientist Researchers Turn Skin Cells Into Brain Cells, A Promising Path To Better Parkinson's Diseases Treatment, Johns Hopkins Medicine From the Academic Literature: Adiponectin is critical in determining susceptibility to depressive behaviors and has antidepressant-like activity, PNAS Neural Correlates of Prior Expectations of Motion in the Lateral Intraparietal and Middle Temporal Areas, The Journal of Neuroscience Their pain is not our pain: Brain and autonomic correlates of empathic resonance with the pain of same and different race individuals, Human Brain Mapping Looking for the Hannibal Behind the Cannibal: Current Status of Case Research, International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology Infant Perception of Atypical Speech Signals, Developmental Psychology Antagonism of NMDA receptors as a potential treatment for Down syndrome: a pilot randomized controlled trial, Translational Psychiatry Do dolphins benefit from nonlinear mathematics when processing their sonar returns?, Proceedings of the Royal Society Is Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Ever Ethically Justified? If so, Under What Circumstances, HEC Forum Pharmacological Rescue of Mitochondrial Deficits in iPSC-Derived Neural Cells from Patients with Familial Parkinson’s Disease, Science Translational Medicine

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