PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Morals and the machine: As robots grow more autonomous, society needs to develop rules to manage them, The Economist  In The Popular Press: Risky Rise of the Good-Grade Pill, New York Times Education Neuroscience: The mind reader, Nature News Stone Links: Addiction and Agency, New York Times Opinionator  Apes, Chickens, and Moral Standing, Neuroethics & Law Blog Autonomy and mental illness [by lisa bortolotti], Neuroethics & Law Blog The Makings of Our Earliest Memories, New York Times Well Blog Your Workout Motivation Could Soon Come in Pill Form, Gizmodo Brain training 'helps treat depression', BBC News Should Ritalin Be Distributed To Everyone Taking the SATs?, Scientific American Should Teachers Learn Neuroscience?, Science Progress NFL players join federal lawsuit alleging league hid risks of head trauma, The Guardian The Fallacy of the ‘Hijacked Brain’, New York Times Opinionator Guns don't kill people, video game players do, The Guardian Likin' Laken, if he ain't fakin', The Neuroethics Blog Bonobo genome reveals more promiscuity in human past, New Scientist Dancing robots reveal cultural cues, BBC News From the Academic Literature: Autistic-like behaviours and hyperactivity in mice lacking ProSAP1/Shank2, Nature The effect of chronic intermittent ethanol exposure on spatial memory in adolescent rats: The dissociation of metabolic and cognitive tolerances, Brain Research Evidence for a Decision Variable in the Human Motor System, Journal of Neuroscience Neural Correlates of Specific and General Pavlovian-to-Instrumental Transfer within Human Amygdalar Subregions: A High-Resolution fMRI Study, Journal of Neuroscience Pervasive Synaptic Branch Removal in the Mammalian Neuromuscular System at Birth, Neuron

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