PEBS Neuroethics Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Brain Pacemakers: A Long-Lasting Solution in the Fight Against Depression?, Science Daily In The Popular Press: What is Artificial Intelligence?, New York Times Many get antidepressants for no psychiatric reason, Reuters (Video) Study: Math Skills Rely on Language, Not Just Logic, Wired Science What’s That Robot Looking At?, Scientific American Forgiveness via iPhone: Church approves confession app, New Scientist The more you lie, the easier it gets, New Scientist Numbers Need Language to Make Sense in Our Minds, Discover Brain’s ‘constant gardner’ discovered. New Scientist Brain’s ‘Radio Stations’ Have Much to Tell Scientist, Science Daily FDA expedites review of robotic arm, Los Angeles Times 20 TED talks about the brain, Neuroethics at the Core Chimps thinking about thinking, Neuroethics at the Core From the Annals of the Strange: Dog Telepathy, The Thoughtful Animal Talking Your Brain for a Walk, The New York Times From the Academic Literature: Long-term Antipsychotic Treatment and Brain Volumes, Archives of General Psychiatry Cortical representations of olfactory input by transsynaptic tracing, Nature Functional identification of an aggression locus in the mouse hypothalamus, Nature Testosterone administration impairs cognitive empathy in women depending on second-to-fourth digit ratio, PNAS Crocodile Tears: Facial, Verbal and Body Language Behaviours Associated with Genuine and Fabricated Remorse, Law and Human Behavior

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