PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Animal Models: Inside the Minds of Mice and Men, Nature In The Popular Press: Who wouldn’t want to take the sting out of painful memories?, Guardian In Defense of Antidepressants, New York Times Are Antidepressants Just Placebos with Side Effects?, Scientific American The New York Times’ Defense of Antidepressants, Mad in America Against Neuroethics, Mind Hacks In Search of a Robot More Like Us, New York Times Justice Breyer cites neuroscience research in videogame dissent, The Law and Neuroscience Blog Stanford researchers build a device for brain-inspired computing, SCOPE The Neurobiology of Bliss—Sacred and Profane, Scientific American Chimp recognizes synthetic speech, BBC News Beauty is in the brain of the beholder, Discover Blogs Not Exactly Rocket Science Masterpieces, but only if unmedicated, StarTribune Two weeks of hell, forty years ago, Mind Hacks Is Happiness Always a Good Thing?, Brain Blogger The trolley problem and the evolution of war, Neuroethics at the Core Angie Varona, Grace Kelly and Scrambling your mOFC, Dean’s Corner Mass psychosis in the US, Al Jazeera Lizard has problem-solving skills, BBC Nature Don’t call me Polly—parrots have individual ‘names’ in the wild, Nature News Blog     From the Academic Literature: Mutation of the conserved polyadenosine RNA binding protein, ZC3H14/dNab2, impairs neural function in Drosophila and humans, PNAS Me, My “Self” and You: Neuropsychological Relations between Social Emotion, Self-Awareness, and Morality, Emotion Review Cognitive correlates of the spontaneous out-of-body experience (OBE) in the psychologically normal population: Evidence for an increased role of temporal-lobe instability, body-distortion processing, and impairments in own-body transformations, Cortex Genetic and Environmental Influences on Female Sexual Orientation, Childhood Gender Typicality and Adult Gender Identity, PLoSONE Preventing interference between different memory tasks, Nature Neuroscience Target Article: How the Neuroscience of Decision Making Informs Our Conception of Autonomy, American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience Target Article: Diminishing and Enhancing Free Will, American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience Neuroscience: Weight loss through smoking, Nature Dementia: A problem for our age, Nature

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