PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: The Irrationality of Irrationality: The Paradox of Popular Psychology, Scientific American Blogs In The Popular Press: When Illness Makes a Spouse a Stranger, New York Times Health What I'm really thinking: the wife of a brain injury victim, The Guardian Two Trepanned Skulls from the Middles Ages Are Found in Soria, Spain, Science Daily Sleepy Brains Think More Freely, Scientific American Why We Talk About Ourselves: The Brain Likes It, Time Healthland Does Post-Traumatic Stess Disorder Require Trauma?, Scientific American Brain Scans Give Glimpse of How Your Dog Thinks, Wired Science When did our ancestors learn to do the right thing?, New Scientist So you're a cyborg -- now what?, CNN Health From the Academic Literature: The Motor Cortex Communicates with the Kidney, The Journal of Neuroscience Olfactory Deficits Cause Anxiety-Like Behaviors in Mice, Journal of Neuroscience Simultaneous BOLD fMRI and fiber-optic calcium recording in rat neocortex, Nature Methods

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