PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: A Single Neck Injection Could Cure PTSD, Gizmodo In The Popular Press: In Calif. Mental Hospitals, Assaults Rarely a Crime, NPR Doctors Diagnose Diseases As If Recognising Objects, The Guardian Neurophilosophy Psychology: Who Needs a Leader? Nature News & Views After Drugs and Dark Times, Helping Others to Stand Back Up, NY Times How Ignorance Could Improve Group Decisions, Wired Science The Future: Where Sexual Orientations Get Kind of Confusing, The Crux Blog The Disconnection of Psychopaths, The Neurocritic Shyness and Social Phobia, BrainBlogger The Psychology of Dictatorship: Kim Jong-Il, Scientific American 'My Brain Made Me Do It' -- A Legitimate Defence? New Scientist When Lobotomy Was Seen As Advanced, NY Times Overstretched US Drone Pilots Face Stress Risk, Reuters Chess Robots Have Trouble Grasping the Game, New Scientist One Per Cent Blog Neurons Offer Clues to Suicide, Scientific American Crucial Advances in 'Brain Reading' Demonstrated, Science Daily From the Academic Literature: Dopamine Neurons Derived From Human ES Cells Efficiently Engraft in Animal Models of Parkinson's Disease, Nature The Mirror Game As a Paradigm For Studying the Dynamics of Two People Improvising Motion Together, PNAS Behavioural Neuroscience: Curbing Sweet Cravings, Nature Reviews Neuoscience Prenatal Origins of Neurological Development, Current Directions in Psychological Science Multifocal Attention Filters Target From Distracters Within and Beyond Primate MT Neurons' Receptive Field Boundaries, Neuron Neural Activation During the Processing of Ambiguous Fearful Facial Expressions, Biological Psychiatry Human Cortical Activity Evoked By The Assignment of Authenticity When Viewing Works of Art, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Enhanced Cortical Excitability in Grapheme-Color Synesthesia and its Modulation, Current Biology

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