PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Flute’s Revised Age Dates the Sound of Music Earlier, New York Times In The Popular Press: Morals and the machine: As robots grow more autonomous, society needs to develop rules to manage them, The Economist  32 Innovations That Will Change Your Tomorrow, New York Times Electrical stimulation of the brain: the benefits of the short, sharp shock, The Guardian This Is Your Brain On No Self-Control, Science Daily Bionic cells can do basic arithmetic, New Scientist The Cognitive Behavioral Miracle--Controlling your Emotions, Brain Blogger Premature babies may have increased risk of psychosis, New Scientist Dictators Turn Strangely Benevolent in Online Game, Wired Science A case study by Lisa Bortolotti, Neuroethics & Law Blog Do Plants Think?, Scientific American Video From Sean Mackey On Using fMRI To Measure Pain, Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences Video From Jack Gallant & Nita Farahany on fMRI-Enabled Mind-Reading, Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences Is it reality? No, it's Truman Show delusion, The Guardian Lucid dreaming: Rise of a nocturnal hobby, BBC News Hitting the Court, With an Ear on the Ball, New York Times From the Academic Literature: Neuroscience: Sibling neurons bond to share sensations, Nature The Amygdala Central Nucleus: A New Region Implicated in Habit Learning, The Journal of Neuroscience Primary somatosensory cortex discriminates affective significance in social touch, PNAS Cineradiography of Monkey Lip-Smacking Reveals Putative Precursors of Speech Dynamics, Current Biology Forebrain GABAergic Neuron Precursors Integrate into Adult Spinal Cord and Reduce Injury-Induced Neuropathic Pain, Neuron Restoring Voluntary Control of Locomotion after Paralyzing Spinal Cord Injury, Science Identification of the Cortical Neurons that Mediate Antidepressant Responses, Cell Sex moderates the relationship between worry and performance monitoring brain activity in undergraduates, International Journal of Psychophysiology Evolution of a Vertebrate Social Decision-Making Network, Science Long-term soy isoflavone supplementation and cognition in women, Neurology The “Truman Show” delusion: Psychosis in the global village, Cogntive Neuropsychiatry

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