PEBS Neuroethics Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: The self: why science is not enough, New Scientist In The Popular Press: Can a Pill Make You Limitless? The Ethics of Cognitive Enhancement, Berman Bulletin Video: Paul Root Wolpe: It’s time to question bio-engineering, TED Kindergarten co-op: How babysitting made us brainy, New Scientist Brain Science and the Law, The Dana Foundation Scientists Switch Off Brain’s Anxiety Circuit, NIH Research Matters Wired for Distraction: Kids and Social Media, TIME Do You Have Free Will? Yes, It’s the Only Choice, New York Times Breakthrough in delivering drugs to the brain, BBC News The mathematics of being nice, New Scientist Music is All in the Mind, Scientific American MIND in Pictures: I Think, Therefore I Scan, Scientific American One pill makes you smarter: The myth of the meat machine, Scientific American Nerve-Electronic Hybrid Could Meld Mind and Machine, Wired Science For the Brain, a Race To Recall the Details, New York Times A Simple Prescription for Superior Powers, New York Times How Free Is Your Will?, Scientific American Fake tweets by 'socialbot' fool hundreds of followers, New Scientist Bees Could Reveal Key to Dementia, Science Daily From the Academic Literature: Neural processing of social rejection: The role of schizotypal personality traits, Human Brain Mapping Gender differences in brain functional connectivity density, Human Brain Mapping Experimental Philosophy and the Problem of Free Will, Science Memory: Tagging in the cortex, Nature Reviews Neuroscience Psychiatric disorder: The stresses of womanhood, Nature Reviews Neuroscience Hippocampal Volume Differences in Gulf War Veterans with Current Versus Lifetime Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms, Biological Psychiatry Membrane Potential-Dependent Modulation of Recurrent Inhibition in Rat Neocortex, PLoS Biology Recalibration of Auditory Space following Milliseconds of Cross-Modal Discrepancy, Journal of Neuroscience Model-Based Influences on Humans' Choices and Striatal Prediction Errors, Neuron Schizophrenia: Zooming in on a gene, Nature A sensory subpopulation depends on vesicular glutamate transporter 2 for mechanical pain, and together with substance P, inflammatory pain, PNAS Cognitive change on the repeatable battery of neuropsychological status (RBANS) in parkinson's disease with and without bilateral subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation surgery, TCN

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