Neuroethics Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: What is Artificial Intelligence?, New York Times In The Popular Press: No Soul? I Can Live with That. No Free Will? AHHHHH!!!, Psychology Today V.S. Ramachandran's Tales Of The 'Tell-Tale Brain', NPR Did a Reporter Have a Stroke on TV?, New York Times Well Blog Antidepressants Don’t Work…In Fish, Neuroskeptic Your Brain in Love, Scientific American Does Social Anxiety Disorder Respond to Psychotherapy? Brain Study Says Yes, Science Daily The neuroscience of True Grit, Scientific American This is your brain on stress, Spoonful of Medicine Crush Your Friends with Your Mental Powers Using Mindflex Duel, Gizmodo Knocking Out a "Dumb" Gene Boosts Memory in Mice, Scientific American Do snails dream of slime-covered sheep?, New Scientist Convincing evidence: Our wills aren’t as free as we (or I) would like to think, Cross Check ‘Sacred’ rules of engagement defeat rationality in war, New Scientist JPEG for the Mind: How the Brain Compresses Visual Information, Science Daily World’s Total CPU Power: One Human Brain, Wired Science From the Academic Literature: Brain-state–independent neural representation of peripheral stimulation in rat olfactory bulb, PNAS Fear-Conditioning Mechanisms Associated with Trait Vulnerability to Anxiety in Humans, Neuron   Sing the mind electric – principles of deep brain stimulation, European Journal of Neuroscience Ethical brain stimulation – neuroethics of deep brain stimulation in research and clinical practice, European Journal of Neuroscience Sing the mind electric-principles of deep brain stimulation, European Journal of Neuroscience The protective effects of helmets in skiers and snowboarders, BMJ Vangl2 Promotes Wnt/Planar Cell Polarity-like Signaling by Antagonizing Dvl1-Mediated Feedback Inhibition in Growth Cone Guidance, Developmental Cell

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