PEBS Neuroethics Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Beyond Understanding, New York Times Opinion Pages In The Popular Press: Portraits of the Mind, The New York Times Narcissism No Longer a Psychiatric Disorder, The New York Times Neuroprediction, Violence, and the Law, The Law and Neuroscience Blog Dogs Have Bigger Brains Than Cats Because They Are More Sociable, Research Finds, Science Daily Do 'Traffic Lights' in the Brain Direct Our Actions? Delayed Inhibition Between Neurons Identified as Possible Basis for Decision Making, Science Daily No mere gargoyles: Schizophrenic sculpture, New Scientist   From the Academic Literature: Wrath of God: religious primes and punishment, Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences Encephalization is not a universal macroevolutionary phenomenon in mammals but is associated with sociality, PNAS Neural signatures of autism, PNAS Female genomic response to mate information, PNAS

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