PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Spark of Genius: A new technology promises to supercharge your brain with electricity. Is it too good to be true?, Slate In The Popular Press How 'Free Will' Is Implemented in the Brain and Is It Possible to Intervene in the Process?, Science Daily How Much Does It Hurt? Let's Scan Your Brain, National Public Radio Shots Blog The Light at the End of Suffering, New York Times Opinionator  Wars on Drugs, New York Times Sunday Review   How Prozac entered the lexicon, BBC News Sam Parnia – the man who could bring you back from the dead, The Guardian Babies' brains to be mapped in the womb and after birth, BBC News Scientists Decode Dreams With Brain Scans, Wired Science In Blacks, Alzheimer’s Study Finds Same Variant Genes as in Whites, New York Times   A Sleeping Pill Without The Sleepy Head?, Time A street fair of brains and wonder, Wellcome Trust Non-amputees given an invisible phantom limb, New Scientist Being Careful About How We Use Evidence for the "Reality" of Social Pain, The Neuroethics Blog With Incentive, Monkeys Can Coordinate, New York Times   The Tongue – A Portal for Neuromodulation, Brain Blogger Magic trick transforms conservatives into liberals, Nature Neuroscience and navigating the city, Wellcome Trust Don't Sleep It Off, Scientific American Protein Linked to Development Problems, New York Times Science How Real-Time Brain Scanning Could Alleviate Pain, Scientific American Rosemary Aroma May Help You Remember to Do Things, Science Daily Distorted Thinking in Gambling Addiction: What Are the Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms?, Science Daily Nine-month-olds prefer looking at unattractive (read: normal) male bodies, BPS Research From the Academic Literature: Rats and Humans Can Optimally Accumulate Evidence for Decision-Making, Science An fMRI-Based Neurologic Signature of Physical Pain, NEJM Neurocognitive and Somatic Components of Temperature Increases during g-Tummo Meditation: Legend and Reality, PLoS One Speech-like vocalized lip-smacking in geladas, Current Biology Human cortical activity evoked by gaze shift observation: An intracranial EEG study, Human Brain Mapping Characterization and Quantification of Isoflurane-Induced Developmental Apoptotic Cell Death in Mouse Cerebral Cortex, Anesthesia & Analgesia  Molecular Imaging of Conscious, Unrestrained Mice with AwakeSPECT, Journal of Nuclear Medicine Neuroscience: Anxiety is the sum of its parts, Nature

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