PEBS Neuroethics Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: In His Own Image-Dr. Antonio Damasio, The New York Times In The Popular Press: Social Animal: How the new sciences of human nature can help make sense of a life, The New Yorker What’s Missing From Our ‘Cognitive Toolkit’?, The New York Times Three technologies that changed our brains (video), Neuroethics at the Core Friends connect on a genetic level, Nature News Antipsychotic drug prescriptions triple in the US, New Scientist Beware the seductions of sociable machines, New Scientist When All Isn’t Enough to Foil Alzheimer’s, The New York Times MRI Scans Can Reveal Whether You’re a Good Gamer, Gizmodo Brainstorm in a teacup, Culture Lab Dad's arrest in sex case results in $1.8M settlement, Detriot FreePress   The upside of living with Asperger’s, Guardian LCD Projector Used to Control Brain and Muscles of Tiny Organisms Such as Worms, Science Daily From the Academic Literature: The neural basis of intuitive best next-move generation in board game experts, Science ESP paper rekindles discussion about statistics, Science Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinsonian Patients—Ethical Evaluation of Congitive, Affective, and  Behavioral Sequelae, American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience Ethical Issues in Deep Brain Stimulation Research for Treatment-Resistant Depression: Focus on Risk and Consent, American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience “Doctor, Would You Prescribe a Pill to Help Me…?” A National Survey of Physicians on Using Medicine for Human Enhancement, American Journal of Bioethics Preplay of future place cell sequences by hippocampal cellular assemblies, Nature Neuroscience: Seeing into the future, Nature Lost in translation: neuroscience and the public, Nature Reviews Neuroscience Time-lapse imaging of disease progression in deep brain areas using fluorescence microendoscopy, Nature Medicine Informed consent for MRI and fMRI research: Analysis of a sample of Canadian consent documents, BMC Medical Ethics Emotion Processing Influences Working Memory Circuits in Pediatric Bipolar Disorder and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Sixty eight per cent of us hallucinate, BMJ

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