PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Brain scans of happy people help explain their 'rose-tinted' outlook, Guardian  In The Popular Press: Scientist at MIT replicate brain activity with chip, BBC News This Gene Fuels Your Impulsive, Addicted Behavior...If You're a Dude, Gizmodo Going into brain surgery with your eyes open, Wellcome Trust Timing is everything: How your brain learns to predict rewards, Wellcome Trust What Moral Virtues Should We Enhance?, Practical Ethics  Diagnosing the ‘Personhood’ Problem: It’s in Your Brain, Science Progress The Mind's Hidden Switches, Scientific American SFN Neuroblogging: Hypoglycemia and brain function, Scientific American Sorry, Strivers: Talent Matters, New York Times Bionic contact lens 'to project emails before eyes, BBC News ' Body of research, The Guardian   Rabbits Wear 1st Augmented Reality-Style Contact Lenses. Resolution: 1Pixel, Discover Blogs 80beats   Computerized Contact Lenses Could Enable In-Eye Augmented Reality, Scientific American Older brains lack access to region for swift decisions, New Scientist  From the Academic Literature: Brain on video games, Nature Reviews Neuroscience Virtual reality in neuroscience research and therapy, Nature Reviews Neuroscience  Pain sensitivity and vasopressin analgesia are mediated by a gene-sex-environment interaction, Nature Neuroscience Attention induces conservative subjective biases in visual perception, Nature Neuroscience  Common DISC1 Polymorphisms Disrupt Wnt/GSK3β Signaling and Brain Development, Neuron Analysis of Mannose 6-Phosphate Uncovering Enzyme Mutations Associated with Persistent Stuttering, The Journal of Biological Chemistry  Mutations in the Lysosomal Enzyme-Targeting Pathway and Persistent Stuttering, The New England Journal of Medicine Differential neural activity in the recognition of old versus new events: An Activation Likelihood Estimation Meta-Analysis, Human Brain Mapping

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