PEBS Neuroethics Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Is Low Libido a Brain Disorder?, Practical Ethics In The Popular Press: With Chip Implanted In Retina, Blind Finnish Man Can Read, POPSCI A look at the mind's natural shortcuts, Los Angeles Times Electrical brain stimulation improves math skills, New Scientist Why Bioenhancement of Mathematical Ability Is Ethically Important, Practical Ethics Micromouse robot runs maze in record-breaking time, Discovery News Vulnerable Brain Region May Be Central to Progression of Alzheimer's Disease, Science Daily Does Adolescent Stress Lead to Mood Disorders in Adulthood?, Science Daily Air Force Seeks Neuroweapons To Enhance US Airmen's Minds and Confuse Foes, POPSCI Tracking the Brain's Ability to Bluff, MIT Technology Review A Brain-Machine Interface Built on Images of Marilyn Monroe, 80 Beats Putting money in the pot: does neurological evidence support legalizing marijuana?, Neuoethics & Law Blog From the Academic Literature: Synthetic biology and ethics of knowledge, Journal Medical Ethics Free will and psychiatric assessments of critical responsibility: a parallel with informed consent, Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy The disease embodied mind: constructing a conception of mental disease in relation to the person, Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy Cognition Enchacing Drugs: Just Say Yes?, Journal of Philosophy, Science & Law Failing to Ignore: Paradoxical Neural Effects of Perceptual Load on Early Attentional Selection in Normal Aging, Journal of Neuroscience Sleep Spindle Activity is Associated with the Integration of New Memories and Existing Knowledge, Journal of Neuroscience Altered Functional Connectivity in Frontal Lobe Circuits Is Associated with Variation in the Autism Risk Gene CNTNAP2, Science Translational Medicine Modulating Neuronal Activity Produces Specific and Long-Lasting Changes in Numerical Competence, Current Biology The Art of Anger: Reward Context Turns Avoidance Responses to Anger-Related Objects Into Approach, Psychological Science Socializing by day may affect performance by night: vulnerability to sleep deprivation is differentially mediated by social exposure in extraverts vs introverts, Sleep

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