PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Who wouldn’t want to take the sting out of painful memories?, Guardian In The Popular Press: Slovenly or Sick? The Medicalization of the Messy, Sociological Images Erased Memories and Spotless Minds, BBC Radio 4 KDDI’s mind-reading Android app monitors your brainstorms, or lack thereof…, Engadget Why Brains Get Creeped Out by Androids, Wired Science The human paradox that is common sense, New Scientist Better Packaging via Neuroimaging, Neuromarketing The Need for a Progressive Neuroethics, University of Oxford Practical Ethics Is Google Ruining Your Memory?, The Frontal Cortex Mental Math in Infants, Scientific American Baboon Study Shows Benefits for Nice Guys, Who Finish 2nd, New York Times The extended mind—how Google affects our memories, Discover Morality as a Biological Phenomenon?, BMJ Group Blogs Lingering Lies: The Persistent Influence of Misinformation, Scientific American Binge drinking 'can damage memory skills' in teen girls, BBC News The Neuroscience of the Debt Debate, or Why Cooperation Takes a Backseat to Mistrust, Scientific American When Will We Be Transhuman? Seven Conditions for Attaining Transhumanism, Discover The Joy of a Sun Bath, a Snuggle, a Bite of Pate. The New York Times Disgraced cognition researcher resigns from Harvard, Short Sharp Science   From the Academic Literature: Executing Facial Control During Deception Situations, Journal of Nonverbal Behavior Google Effects of Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information, Science Understanding Otherness: The Neural Bases of Action Comprehension and Pain Empathy in a Congenital Amputee, Cerebral Cortex Oscillatory patterns in temporal lobe reveal context reinstatement during memory search, PNAS Blue again: perturbational effects of antidepressants suggest monoaminergic homeostasis in major depression, Frontiers in Evolutionary Psychology Neural mechanisms of the cognitive model of depression, Nature Reviews Neuroscience Psychiatric disorder: The dark side of depression, Nature Reviews Neuroscience

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