Neuroethics Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: The Moral Life of Babies, The New York Times  In the Popular Press: The Claim: Caffeine Helps Prevent Nighttime Accidents on the Job, New York Times Can MRIs Help Solve Crimes?, NPR fMRI Lie Detection Hearing Ends, Decision Still to Come, Science Insider Neuroscience: The rat pack, Nature News Monkeys' art of war has lessons for human conflict, New Scientist Jury Reaches Decision in Brain-Scan Test Case, Wired Science Judge Issues Legal Opinion in Brooklyn fMRI Case, Wired Science Dementia Caregivers More Likely to Also Get the Disease, Wired Science Dopamine System in Highly Creative People Similar to That Seen in Schizophrenics, Study Finds, Science Daily Shiny New Neuroscience Technique (Optogenetics) Verifies a Familiar Method (fMRI), Discover From the Academic Literature: Treating Dementia: Do We Have a Pill for It?, JAMA Detecting individual memories through the neural decoding of memory states and past experience, PNAS Newborn infants learn during sleep, PNAS A snapshot of the age distribution of psychological well-being in the United States, PNAS Global and local fMRI signals driven by neurons defined optogenetically by type and wiring, Nature First Person Experience of Body Transfer in Virtual Reality, PLoSONE A new method for fMRI investigations of language: Defining ROIs functionally in individual subjects, Journal of Neurophysiology Spectral Responses of the Human Circadian System Depend on the Irradiance and Duration of Exposure to Light, Science Translational Medicine Abrupt Transitions between Prefrontal Neural Ensemble States Accompany Behavioral Transitions during Rule Learning, Neuron

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