PEBS Neuroethics Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Against Open Mindedness, Practical Ethics In The Popular Press: Beyond Understanding, New York Times Opinion Pages A Mystery: Why Can’t We Walk Straight?, NPR A Report on the 2010 Neuroethics Society Meeting (Blitz), Neuroethics & Law Blog NIH director takes first steps towards new addictions research institute, The Great Beyond Chip implant developed to help the paralysed exercise, BBC Newly Identified Brain Pathways Vital to Understanding Language, Science Daily Orangutans Count on Stats for Survival, Science Daily 'Binocular Rivalry' Deciphered: Key Brain Mechanism Behind Conscious Visual Perception, Science Daily Video of the Week: In Which A Bonobo Gets A Man To Wear A Bunny Suit on National TV, The Thoughtful Animal Synaesthesia - crossovers in the senses, The Guardian Will science trump religion, answer how we should live?, USA Today Your Brain Has More Connections Than Every Computer on Earth Combined, Gizmodo Thoughts of religion prompt acts of punishment, New Scientist From the Academic Literature: Extensive spontaneous plasticity of corticospinal projections after primate spinal cord injury, Nature Neuroscience How hard is the CNS hardware?, Nature Neuroscience Danish dementia mice suggest that loss of function and not the amyloid cascade causes synaptic plasticity and memory deficits, PNAS The memory paradox, Nature Reviews Neuroscience Wrath of God: religious primes and punishment, Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences

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