PEBS Neuroethics Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Nobel-winning brain researcher retracts two papers, Nature News In the Popular Press:   Why Indiscretions Appear Youthful, The New York Times Neurofeedback Gains Popularity and Lab Attention, The New York Times Killing 100 is Less Bad than Killing 10?, Practical Ethics Music on the brain: The emotions wrapped up in the works of the Romantic composers may have a neurological explanation, as a recent meeting explored, Nature News Damaged cell powerhouses linked to Parkinson's, Nature News Interview with Sam Harris about morality and human values in the context of our growing scientific understanding of the world, The Daily Show ‘I Am Hatred’: What Turns Someone Into a Psycho-Killer?, ABC News Mental muscle: six ways to boost your brain, New Scientist The new DSM: a challenge for neuroscience in court (Andrea Lavazza and Mario De Caro), Neuroethics & Law Blog Should psychoanalysis be in the Science Museum?, New Scientist People Blind from Birth Use Visual Brain Area to Improve Other Senses: Can Hear and Feel With Greater Acuity, Science Daily   From the Academic Literature: Neuroethics: Considering Its Scope and Limits, American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience To ELSI or Not to ELSI Neuroscience: Lessons for Neuroethics from the Human Genome Project, American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience The Supposed Obligation to Change One's Beliefs About Ethics Because of Discoveries in Neuroscience, American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience Regulating Direct-to-Consumer Personal Genome Testing, Science Neuroscientists Grapple With Their Field's Big Questions, Science From Homininity to Humanity: Compassion from the Earliest Archaics to Modern Humans, Time & Mind Deep brain stimulation of the nucleus accumbens shell increases impulsive behavior and tissue levels of dopamine and serotonin, Experimental Neurology Depressed about depression, BMJ Improved proper name recall by electrical stimulation of the anterior temporal lobes, Neuropsychologia

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