PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: My son's dyslexic, and I'm glad, Practical Ethics  In The Popular Press: Craters, blisters and Pringles: Do small irregularities on the brain surface give us clues about its functions?, Wellcome Trust How Motherhood Behavior Is Influenced by Alterations in Brain Function, Science Daily Memoir About Schizophrenia Spurs Others to Come Forward, New York Times Drugs to Treat A.D.H.D. Reach the Preschool Set, New York Times Antidepressant Linked to Developmental Brain Abnormalities in Rodents, Science Daily IBM Simulates 4.5 percent of the Human Brain, and All of the Cat Brain, Scientific American Screen Time Higher Than Ever for Children, New York Times The Political Effects of Existential Fear, Science Daily  Don't Blink! The Hazards of Confidence, New York Times Video: This Is Informative, You Should Watch It of the Day, The Daily What   Vivid Descriptions of Faces 'Don't Have to Go Into Detail', Science Daily The Power of Conformity, The Society Pages  Army Looks Into Treating PTSD with Dream Manipulation, Discover Magazine Are Men Funnier Than Women?, Scientific American Real-Life Inception: Army Looks to ‘Counteract Nightmares’ With Digital Dreams, Wired Danger Room Primal Propensity for Disgust Shapes Political Positions, Wired Science Orangutan Culture Develops Like Human Culture, Wired Science  Activation of the Hate Circuit While Reading 'Depression Uncouples Brain Hate Circuit', The Neurocritic  From the Academic Literature: Subthalamic nucleus stimulation reverses mediofrontal influence over decision threshold, Nature Neuroscience How unrealistic optimism is maintained in the face of reality, Nature Neuroscience  The ‘Twinkie Defense’: the relationship between carbonated non-diet soft drinks and violence perpetration among Boston high school students, Injury Prevention  Perinatal antidepressant exposure alters cortical network function in rodents, PNAS Dynamics of Retrieval Strategies for Remote Memories, Cell The Lonely Consumer: Loner or Conformer?, Journal of Consumer Research What to Say When: Influencing Consumer Choice by Delaying the Presentation of Favorable Information, Journal of Consumer Research Anterior Prefrontal Cortex Inhibition Impairs Control over Social Emotional Actions, Current Biology A Common, High-Dimensional Model of the Representational Space in Human Ventral Temporal Cortex, Neuron Mania-like behavior induced by genetic dysfunction of the neuron-specific Na+,K+-ATPase α3 sodium pump, PNAS Impulse control and related disorders in Parkinson's disease patients treated with bilateral subthalamic nucleus stimulation: A review, Parkinsonism & Related Disorders  Links Between Attention, Performance Pressure, and Movement in Skilled Motor Action The Politics of Mortal Terror, Current Directions in Psychological Science  The contribution of working memory to divided attention, Human Brain Mapping

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