PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Could a Neural Implant Correct Errant Thoughts?, Scientific American In The Popular Press Chinese project probes the genetics of genius, Nature News Scientific Advances In Prosthetic Limbs, The Diane Rehm Show Watching Your Brain Freak Out On A Scanner Calms You Down, PopSci Dancing with the Devil, The Neuroethics Blog Brain scan study to understand workings of teenage mind, BBC News Health From Fearsome Predator to Man’s Best Friend, New York Times Science Gorillas Agree: Human Frontal Cortex is Nothing Special, Scientific American Tools Are in Our Nature, Scientific American Exposure to stress hormones in the womb linked to mood disorders, Wellcome Trust Blog Neanderthal culture: Old masters, Nature News Inside the Mind of a Psychopath, Scientific American Genes in the brain keep bad time when we are depressed, New Scientist  The Neurobiology of Individuality, The Scientist  Visualizing the Connectome, Discover Magazine What can neuroscience teach education?, Wellcome Trust  Markets Make Us Less Moral, Discover Magazine Q&A: Temple Grandin on the Autistic Brain, Time Health & Family The ‘unnamed feeling’ named ASMR, Mind Hacks Thought Experiment: Build a Supercomputer Replica of the Human Brain, Wired From the Academic Literature: Emergence of Individuality in Genetically Identical Mice, Science Neuroimaging Evidence for the Deficit Subtype of Schizophrenia, JAMA Psychiatry Prefrontal microcircuit underlies contextual learning after hippocampal loss, PNAS Dynamic vaccine blocks relapse to compulsive intake of heroin, PNAS Transcranial Ultrasound (TUS) Effects on Mental States: A Pilot Study, Brain Stimulation Brain Characteristics of Individuals Resisting Age-Related Cognitive Decline over Two Decades, The Journal of Neuroscience Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells and Motor Neuron Disease: Toward an Era of Individualized Medicine, The Journal of Neuroscience Ideals of Student Excellence and Enhancement, Neuroethics Elevated brain cannabinoid CB1 receptor availability in post-traumatic stress disorder: a positron emission tomography study, Molecular Psychiatry  Human frontal lobes are not relatively large, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Surprisingly correct: Unexpectedness of observed actions activates the medial prefrontal cortex, Human Brain Mapping

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