PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: The phantom phenomenon, Wellcome Trust Blog In The Popular Press: 'Brain Cap' Technology Turns Thought Into Motion; Mind-Machine Interface Could Lead to New Life-Changing Technologies for Millions of People, Science Daily The Role of Mirror Neurons in Human Behavior, US News & World Report Why We Lost the War on Drugs, Huffington Post Brain waves can cut braking distances, researchers say, BBC News Dieting forces brain to eat itself, scientists claim, The Telegraph How science will ruin the drug binge you had planned for this weekend, io9 The Collapse of Political Trust, The Frontal Cortex Haven't we met before? Why we recognise someone's face but struggle to remember their name, The Daily Mail Brains that can't grow new neurons are vulnerable to depression, Los Angeles Times Booster Shots The dark side of Oxytocin, Science Daily Will Facebook Ruin Your Child's Brain, Time Techland  Robot Taught to Think for Itself, Wired Science Drugs Found Ineffective for Veterans’ Stress, New York Times From the Academic Literature: The Patient’s Brain: The Neuroscience Behind the Doctor–Patient Relationship, British Journal of Psychiatry  Direct Reprogramming of Adult Human Fibroblasts to Functional Neurons under Defined Conditions, Cell Stem Cell What People Believe about How Memory Works: A Representative Survey of the U.S. Population, PLoSONE Getting Moral Enhancement Right: The Desirability of Moral Bioenhancement, Bioethics fMRI Correlates of White Matter Hyperintensities in Late-Life Depression, American Journal of Psychiatry

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