PEBS Neuroethics Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Fear-Conditioning Mechanisms Associated with Trait Vulnerability to Anxiety in Humans, Neuron Videos: Monkeys ‘display self-doubt’ like humans, BBC News Player’s text: Send my brain to NFL research bank, CNN The Chart         Thought-controlled wheelchairs and bionics that ‘feel’, BBC            German researchers drive car with their minds, Jalopnik In The Popular Press: The Threatening Scent of Fertile Women, New York Times Want more pain relief? Think positive, New Scientist Study links brain with white-collar crime, The Independent Ecstasy does not wreck the mind, study claims, Guardian My Puny Human Brain, Slate Understanding the Brain’s “Brake Pedal” in Neural Plasticity, Scientific American The Claim: A Fake Smile Can be Bad for Your Health, New York Times Bedazzled Neurons, Dean’s Corner The Real Avatar: Swiss Researchers Use Virtual Reality and Brain Imaging to Hunt for the Science of Self, Science Daily Child brain scans to pick out future criminals, The Telegraph Drug relapse brain region found in rats, BBC News Alzheimer’s Study: Bilingual Brains Are Dementia-Resistant, Discover Blogs 80beats When Photos Are Painkillers, Scientific American   Brains of Blind People Reading in Braille Show Activity in Same Area That Lights Up When Sighted Readers Read, Science Daily Is FDA Device Exemption for Deep Brain Stimulation Being Misused?, Medscape Deep Brain Stimulation Helps Severe OCD, but Pioneer Advises Caution, Science Daily From the Academic Literature: Moral enhancement and pro-social behavior, Journal of Medical Ethics Synaptic potentiation onto habenula neurons in the learned helplessness model of depression, Nature Psychiatry: A molecular shield from trauma, Nature Transgenic elimination of high-affinity antidepressant and cocaine sensitivity in the presynaptic serotonin transporter, PNAS A mouse model to address unresolved antidepressant issues, PNAS Slow integration leads to persistent action potential firing in distal axons of coupled interneurons, Nature Neuroscience An optogenetic toolbox designed for primates, Nature Neuroscience A reservoir of time constants for memory traces in cortical neurons, Nature Neuroscience Learning the microstructure of successful behavior, Nature Neuroscience Temporal Discounting: The Differential Effect of Proximal and Distal Consequences of Confession Decisions, Law and Human Behavior Addiction: Knowing when to stop, Nature Reviews Neuroscience A Ventral Visual Stream Reading Center Independent of Visual Experience, Current Biology Convergent Processing of Both Positive and Negative Motivational Signals by the VTA Dopamine Neuronal Populations, PLoSONE

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