PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Moral dilemmas and fMRI, Neuroethics & Law Blog In The Popular Press: The Neurology of the Undead, Mind Hacks Casting Memory in Doubt, Science Blogs When Bell Sounds, Surgeon Enters Ringside Call, New York Times Some with Histories of Mental Illness Petition to Get Their Gun Rights Back, New York Times Artificially Intelligent machines that can argue back with humans are just years away, The Daily Mail Ender's Game Proves that Every Child Deserves to be Gifted and Talented, Discover Magazine Is the Internet Bad for Our Brains?, Scholarly Kitten What Happens in the Brain When We Experience a Panic Attack?, Scientific American Specs that See Right Through You, New Scientist Project Nim: A Chimp Raised like a Human, New Scientist Why Does Excercise Make Us Feel Good?, New York Times Tendancy Towards Fairness May Have Helped Us Survive, New York Times Naomi Wolf, Porn, and the Misuse of Dopamine, Mind Hacks Ready for My Close-Up: Monkey's Talent for Photography, New Scientist Dostoyevsky, Prescient Neuroessentialist, Neuroethics at the Core From the Academic Literature: Emotional and Social Behaviors Elicited by Electrical Stimulation of the Insula in the Macaque Monkey, Science Grand challenges in global mental health, Nature Animal Models: Inside the Minds of Mice and Men, Nature

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