PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: What the Brain Can Tell Us About Art, New York Times Sunday Review In The Popular Press Those resistant to 'love hormone' may also be easier to hypnotize, Nature The Brain of a Bomber: Did Damage Caused By Boxing Play a Role in the Boston Bombings?, Time Health & Family Hearing Voices: PTSD and Auditory Hallucinations, PLoS Blogs Clenching fists 'can improve memory', BBC News Mental health: On the spectrum, Nature What's Tylenol Doing to Our Minds?, The Atlantic  Anti-Smoking Ads With Strong Arguments, Not Flashy Editing, Trigger Part of Brain That Changes Behavior, Science Daily Binge Eating Curbed by Deep Brain Stimulation in Animal Model, Science Daily Drugs to Lift Depression in Hours Rather Than Weeks, The Wall Street Journal When Do Babies Become Conscious?, Wired Science Brain Scans Reveal That Humans Definitely Feel Empathy For Robots, Gizmodo Samsung Demos a Tablet Controlled by Your Brain, MIT Technology Review What is cognitive behavioural therapy like for a teenager?, Research Digest Appreciating Neurodiversity: Learning from Synesthesia, The Neuroethics Blog fMRI: More Voxels, More Problems?, Discover Magazine Understanding How the Brain Speaks Two Languages, Time Health & Family Ryan Calo on Brain-Computer Interfaces And Privacy, Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences Oliver Sacks Shares Tales of Musical Hallucinations, Scientific American Playing for All Kinds of Possibilities, New York Times   Beer, dopamine and brain scans make an intoxicating mix, The Guardian Cassava and Mental Deficits, New York Times Health     From the Academic Literature: A Neural Marker of Perceptual Consciousness in Infants, Science Right (to a) Diagnosis? Establishing Correct Diagnoses in Chronic Disorders of Consciousness, Neuroethics Turning Oscillations Into Opportunities: Lessons from a Bacterial Decision Gate, Scientific Reports Infant Calming Responses during Maternal Carrying in Humans and Mice, Current Biology Power failure: why small sample size undermines the reliability of neuroscience, Nature Reviews Neuroscience

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