PEBS Neuroethics News Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: How Neuroscience Is Changing the Law, Big Think In The Popular Press: Love and Pain Relief, NY Times Blog Taking Early Retirement May Retire Memory, Too, NY Times Special report: Morality put to the test, New Scientist Gene therapy helps depressed mice, Nature News Film festival: Can monkeys make movies?, New Scientist Robot limbs to plug into the brain with light, New Scientist Can neuroscience help Gap produce a better logo?, New Scientist The science of optical illusions, BBC Old Bees' Memory Fades; Mirrors Recall of Humans and Other Mammals, Science Daily New Mothers Grow Bigger Brains Within Months of Giving Birth: Warmer Feelings Toward Babies Linked to Bigger Mid-Brain, Science Daily La douleur exquise!, Spoonful of medicine From the Academic Literature: Empowering brain science with neuroethics, The Lancet Hypomania Following Bilateral Ventral Capsule Stimulation in a Patient with Refractory Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Biological Psychiatry Goal-directed and habitual control in the basal ganglia: implications for Parkinson's disease, Nature Reviews Neuroscience Emotion processing and the amygdala: from a 'low road' to 'many roads' of evaluating biological significance, Nature Reviews Neuroscience Current Steering to Control the Volume of Tissue Activated During Deep Brain Stimulation, Brain Stimulation The neural mechanisms of learning from competitors, NeuroImage Encoding of Motor Skill in the Corticomuscular System of Musicians, Current Biology Temporal patterning of pulses during deep brain stimulation affects central nervous system arousal, Behavioural Brain Research Evidence for Cortical Automaticity in Rule-Based Categorization, Journal of Neuroscience The Architecture of Reward Value Coding in the Human Orbitofrontal Cortex, Journal of Neuroscience STN DBS and Suicide: Is Tangential Evidence, Evidence Enough?, European Neurology Neurophysiological origin of human brain asymmetry for speech and language, PNAS Evidence for a bimodal distribution in human communication, PNAS

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