PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Brain scans reduce murder sentence in Italian court, New Scientist In The Popular Press: Mind-reading movies reconstruct what you see, New Scientist Cassidy: iPhone app can't stress calm enough, Mercury News Why Harmony pleases the brain, New Scientist Atheism as mental deviance, Discover Magazine Video-game studies have serious flaws, Nature News The Neuroscience of Choosing: Can We Understand How the Brain Makes Decisions?, Science Daily Teenage Brains, National Geographic Bombs' hidden impact: The brain war, Nature News How Far Will Dolphins Go to Relate to Humans? Women More Likely Than Men to See Nuance When Making Decisions, Scientific American Outside the criminal mind, Mind Hacks A Few Strokes of the Past in an Artist Who Lost Her Memory, New York Times Could Personality Differences Help Explain the Reality Gap on Climate Chance?, Science Progress The Cyborg in US All, New York Times Nursing homes try to reduce use of powerful antipsychotic drugs for dementia patients, Washington Post Stimulating brain with electricity aids learning speed, BBC News Why Being Relaxed Makes Us Spend Too Much Money, Wired The Frontal Cortex   From the Academic Literature: Circulating glucose levels modulate neural control of desire for high-calorie foods in humans, Journal of Clinical Investigation Neuroticism Influences Brain Activity During the Experience of Visceral Pain, Gastroenterology Contagious yawning and seasonal climate variation, Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience The evolution of overconfidence, Nature Regional brain activation with advertising images, Journal of Neuroscience   Epigenetics: From father to son, Nature Reviews Neuroscience Effects of Acute Tryptophan Depletion on Prefrontal-Amygdala Connectivity While Viewing Facial Signals of Aggression, Biological Psychiatry Neural mechanisms underlying freedom to choose an object, Human Brain Mapping Hedging Your Bets by Learning Reward Correlations in the Human Brain, Neurology

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