PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

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Last Edition's Most Popular Article: The Neuroscience of 20-Somethings, Scientific American In The Popular Press Can We Learn To Forget Our Memories?, National Public Radio Shots Blog Alzheimer’s drugs take a new tack, Nature Man Walks With Aid of Brain-Controlled Robotic Legs, Wired Science Making Choices: How Your Brain Decides, Time Healthland Biomarker predicts recovery from a type of depression, Nature News Blog Snakes On a Brain, or, Why Care About Comparative Neuroanatomy (Vol.1), The Neuroethics Blog Puppet experiment suggests humans are born to be fair, BBC News This Is Your Brain On Management, Neuroskeptic An in-brain stimulation grid, Mind Hacks Why memory and math don't mix: They require opposing states of the same brain circuitry, SCOPE Would you swap a healthy eye for a bionic one with additional functionality?, Wired UK Unconscious Reactions Separate Liberals and Conservatives, Scientific American Could Internet Addiction Be Genetic?, US News Health Heavy Drinking Rewires Brain, Increasing Susceptibility to Anxiety Problems, Science Daily Gene therapy restores sense of smell in mice, BBC News How to Improve Police Lineups and ID the Right Culprit, Time Healthland Music of the Unquiet Mind, New York Times Opinion Pages Can You Make a Sociopath—Either Through Brain Injury or Other Types of Trauma?, Scientific American BBC Column: stopped clocks and dead phones, Mind Hacks Why top sport stars might have 'more time' on the ball, BBC News Revisiting Robbers Cave: The easy spontaneity of intergroup conflict, Scientific American From the Academic Literature: Neuroscience: Lessons from heartbreak, Nature Class, Chaos, and the Construction of Community, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Occipital Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Has an Activity-Dependent Suppressive Effect, Journal of Neuroscience Higher normal fasting plasma glucose is associated with hippocampal atrophy, Neurology Glass Shape Influences Consumption Rate for Alcoholic Beverages, PLOS One Chronic alcohol remodels prefrontal neurons and disrupts NMDAR-mediated fear extinction encoding, Nature Neuroscience Ideals of Student Excellence and Enhancement, Neuroethics Meta-Analysis of Cognitive Functioning in Breast Cancer Survivors Previously Treated With Standard-Dose Chemotherapy, Journal of Clinical Oncology Sex & vision I: Spatio-temporal resolution, Biology of Sex Differences Predicting Treatment Response in Social Anxiety Disorder from Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Archives of General Psychiatry

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