PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Genetic Basis for Crime: A New Look, New York Times In The Popular Press: How Love Makes (Some) Pain Go Away, Wired Science Sleeping babies can hear you're upset, New Scientist Moral dilemmas and fMRI, Neuroethics & Law Blog Looking For Someone: sex, love, and loneliness on the Internet, The New Yorker Happy orangutans live longer in zoos, BBC Nature News First evidence that birds tweet using grammar, New Scientist Arnie, damaged brains and lost selves at film festival, New Scientist Culture Lab Scary New Cigarette Labels Not Based in Psychology, Science Insider Pop culture’s uncanny valley, Neuroethics at the Core Brain-Like Computing a Step Closer to Reality, Science Daily Infants take a rational response to 'broken' toys, New Scientist ‘Compass of Pleasure’: Why Some Things Feel So Good, National Public Radio Mind control goes wireless. Discover Blogs Not Exactly Rocket Science Beauty and the Beasts: The Sight of a Pretty Woman Can Make Men Crave War, Scientific American Close your eyes and you’ll see the moral truth!, Neuroethics & Law Blog Inside young offender’s brains: Where impulsiveness comes from, CNN The Chart From the Academic Literature: 16-Month-Olds Rationally Infer Causes of Failed Actions, Science Neuroscience: Attention—Voluntary Control of Brain Cells, Science Selective Attention from Voluntary Control of Neurons in Prefrontal Cortex, Science Inducing Sleep by Remote Control Facilitates Memory Consolidation in Drosophila, Science Measuring and interpreting neuronal correlations, Nature Neuroscience Understanding deficits in empathy after traumatic brain injury: The role of affective responsivity, Cortex Do RCAN1 proteins link chronic stress with neurodegeneration?, The FASEB Journal Decoding Action Intentions from Preparatory Brain Activity in Human Parieto-Frontal Networks, The Journal of Neuroscience Excitatory transmission from the amygdala to nucleus accumbens facilitates reward seeking, Nature

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