PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Erase Me: Why we need memory-altering drugs, io9 In The Popular Press: A Better Instance to Dampen Memories, Neuroethics & Law Blog Our Social Nature: The Surprising Science of Smiles, Wired Science Antidepressants increasingly prescribed for nonpsychiatric conditions, American Medical News  Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue?, New York Times When algorithms control the world, BBC News How dead is dead?, The Economist  Zoologists Capture Elephant's 'Eureka!' Moment, Wired Science Brain region that predicts the future identified, New Scientist  A Truce in the War Over Smarts and Genes, The Wall Street Journal  Neuroscientist Identify Brain Activity That Predicts How Well You Will Remember Images, Science Daily Scene perception versus action in the brain, MIT News Think You're Smarter Than Animals? Maybe Not, New York Times Sunday Review "Pain as Fact and Heuristic: How Pain Neuroimaging Illuminates Moral Dimensions of Law", Neuroethics & Law Blog In a Race to Out-Rave, 5-Star Web Reviews Go for $5, New York Times A response to the Baroness, "Mind Hacks" From the Academic Literature: Oxytocin and vasopressin in the human brain: social neuropeptides for translation medicine, Nature Reviews Neuroscience Psychiatric disorders: Down with(out) neurogenesis, Nature Reviews Neuroscience Cortical state and attention, Nature Reviews Neuroscience  Ageing: Rescuing age-related memory loss, Nature Reviews Neuroscience  Googled brains?, Nature Reviews Neuroscience  Remote Control: The Brain and Beyond, Cell When the brain is prepared to learn: Enhancing human learning using real-time fMRI, Neuroimage Default-Mode and Task-Positive Network Activity in Major Depressive Disorder: Implications for Adaptive and Maladaptive Rumination, Biological Psychiatry

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