PEBS Neuroethics Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

Last Edition's Most Popular Article:

• Portraits of the Mind, The New York Times
  

In The Popular Press:

• Dan Dennett- “Free Will, Responsibility, and the Brain” (Video), The SItuationist
  
• Voodoo Correlations: Two Years Later, The Neurocritic
  
• Depressed about the antidepressant pipeline? New compounds go beyond the synapse, Spoonful of Medicine
  
• 'A robot is like a friend' in Japan (Video), BBC News
  
• MS could be reversed by activating stem cells in brain, new study suggests, The Guardian
  
• An Odyssey Through the Brain, Illuminated by a Rainbow, The New York Times
  
• Ants lead way to speedier computer networks, Nature News
  
• Is good luck at gambling all in the genes?, Nature News
  
• Babies and young children are immune from 'catching' yawns, The Telegraph
  
• Are you really smarter than a Neanderthal?, New Scientist
  
• Politics and Eye Movement: Liberals Focus Their Attention on 'Gaze Cues' Much Differently Than Conservatives Do, Science Daily
  
• How Taking an Active Role in Learning Enhances Memory, Science Daily
  
• 'i-Dosing': Can You Download a Drug High?, TIME
  
• Seeing Ourselves Through The Study of Apes, NPR
  

From the Academic Literature:

• Perinatal photoperiod imprints the circadian clock, Nature Neuroscience
  
• The surface area of human V1 predicts the subjective experience of object size, Nature Neuroscience
• Human Posterior Parietal Cortex Flexibly Determines Reference Frames for Reaching Based on Sensory Context, Neuron
  
• Human Posterior Parietal Cortex Flexibly Determines Reference Frames for Reaching Based on Sensory Context, Neuron
  
• Paradoxical False Memory for Objects After Brain Damage, Science
  
• Neuropsychological impairment corresponds with poor understanding of informed consent disclosures in persons diagnosed with major depression, Psychiatry Research
  
• Moral Enhancement and Freedom, Bioethics
  
• Dissociation between manipulation and conceptual knowledge of object use in the supramarginalis gyrus, Human Brain Mapping
  
• The implementation of verbal instructions: An fMRI study, Human Brain Mapping
• Does Marriage Inhibit Antisocial Behavior?, Archives of General Psychiatry
  
• Neural correlates of cognitive dissonance and choice-induced preference change, PNAS
  
• Neuropsychological impairment corresponds with poor understanding of informed consent disclosures in persons diagnosed with major depression, Psychiatry Research