PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Can Neuroscience Challenge Roe V. Wade?, New York Times In The Popular Press How Brainless Slime Molds Redefine Intelligence, Scientific American Minds on Monday: Are Philosophers Qualified to Diagnose Causes?, News APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science Concern over 'souped up' human race, BBC News Ritalin before an exam fails the test of common sense, The Guardian The Brain Trainers, New York Times Anesthesia Study Opens Window into Consciousness, Time Health & Family Culture: Diverse diagnostics, Nature Outlook Brain’s nothingness centre found, Mind Hacks Hurricanes in the Brain – Part I, Jane Roper Could there be a Third Way for Criminal Psychopaths?, University of Oxford General anaesthetic disrupts brain communication, Nature News In-sync brain waves hold memory of objects just seen, NIH News Wellcome Film of the Month: Acute Encephalitis Lethargica (1925), Wellcome Trust Noam Chomsky on Where Artificial Intelligence Went Wrong, The Atlantic Cockatoo 'Can Make Its Own Tools', Science Daily Radio Program - “Brain Talk”, Johns Hopkins Brain Science Institute The Persistence of "Past-Life" Memories, Neuroskeptic Local calls only for anaesthetised brain, New Scientist  What's So Special about Mirror Neurons?, Scientific American Remembering to forget, Wellcome Trust Colorado boy dies after 3 years without a brain, USA Today   Man Climbs 103 Stories with a Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Leg, Discover Magazine Remember It Well: A New Type of On-Switch for Memory, Scientific American What a Rat Feels, The Weizmann Wave Exquisite Corpse: Why a Frighteningly Multifaceted Imaginary Creature can Help Tie Neuroscience to Society, The Neuroethics Blog PTSD Linked to Smaller Brain Area Regulating Fear Response, Science Daily From the Academic Literature: Opposing Mechanisms Support the Voluntary Forgetting of Unwanted Memories, Neuron Neural Synchronization during Face-to-Face Communication, The Journal of Neuroscience  The Neural Correlates of Recollection: Transient Versus Sustained fMRI Effects, The Journal of Neuroscience Spontaneous innovation in tool manufacture and use in a Goffin’s cockatoo, Current Biology A Systematic Review of Amnestic and Non-Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment Induced by Anticholinergic, Antihistamine, GABAergic and Opioid Drugs', Drugs & Aging The burden of normality: from ‘chronically ill’ to ‘symptom free’. New ethical challenges for deep brain stimulation postoperative treatment, Journal of Medical Ethics Music in Our Ears: The Biological Bases of Musical Timbre Perception, PLoS Computational Biology Dynamic network structure of interhemispheric coordination, PNAS A supramodal accumulation-to-bound signal that determines perceptual decisions in humans, Nature Neuroscience

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