PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Hearing Bilingual: How Babies Sort Out Language, New York Times  In The Popular Press: My son's dyslexic, and I'm glad, Practical Ethics  What Makes Free Will Free?, The New York Times Opinionator  Fostering Insights by Engaging the Whole Brain, New York Times Blog Dot Earth Mental Time-Travel in Birds, Science Daily Internet 'may be changing brains', BBC News The psychiatry of vegetarianism, Mind Hacks Who Said Neurology and Fine Art Don't Mix?, Gizmodo Big-Brained People Have More Facebook Friends, Gizmodo IQ 'can change in teenage years', BBC News A case of stimulated fragmentation, Mind Hacks   Does a Bigger Brain Make for a Smarter Child in Babies Born Prematurely?, Science Daily Teenage Brains, National Geographic At Risk for Psychosis?, Scientific American Gene Variant Leads to Better Memory Via Increased Brain Activation, Science Daily It’s Official: To Protect Baby’s Brain, Turn Off TV, Wired Science Surgeons and Cognitive Enhancement, Neuroethics & Law Blog Caresses Enjoyable Vicariously, Too, Science Daily Warning on neural technique, Nature News From the Academic Literature: Switch the pain for an itch, Nature Gone with the wean, Nature Capturing free will, Nature Bilingualism as a contributor to cognitive reserve: Evidence from brain atrophy in Alzheimer’s disease, Cortex Vicarious Responses to Social Touch in Posterior Insular Cortex Are Tuned to Pleasant Caressing Speeds, The Journal of Neuroscience A renewed agenda for global mental health, The Lancet The rights of people with mental disorders: WPA perspective, The Lancet Altered brain activity during emotional empathy in somatoform disorder, Human Brain Mapping

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