PEBS Neuroethics Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: The Next Wave Of Smart Drugs, Gizmodo In The Popular Press: Supremacy of a Social Network, New York Times   Wearable PET scanner maps rat brains in real time, BBC News The Creature Connection, New York Times Happier people tweet together, New Scientist Bites: X marks the spots, Wellcome Trust   Gotcha! Elephant Caught Cheating, National Public Radio Robot Nurses Are Less Weird When They Don’t Talk, Wired Science   Right-Handers Tend to Prefer the Right Side, Scientific American New View of How Humans Moved Away From Apes, New York Times AI lie detection could help crack terror cells, New Scientist In Va. assault case, anxious parents recognize ‘dark side of autism’, Washington Post Poker Bots Invade Online Gambling, New York Times Sperm Whales May Have Names, Wired Science The self: why science is not enough, New Scientist Shock tactics: Treatment or torture?, Guardian Judging Couples’ Chemistry Influenced by Serotonin, Science Daily From the Academic Literature: How is informed consent related to emotions and empathy? An exploratory neuroethical investigation, Journal of Medical Ethics Serotonergic Activity Influences the Cognitive Appraisal of Close Intimate Relationships in Healthy Adults, Biological Psychiatry Addiction: Beyond dopamine reward circuitry, PNAS How to Grow a Mind: Statistics, Structure, and Abstraction, Science The dynamics of collective human behavior, The Lancet Parkinson’s disease DBS: what, when, who and why? The time has come to tailor DBS targets, Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

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