PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Dancing with the Devil, The Neuroethics Blog In The Popular Press Consciousness: The what, why and how, New Scientist  Is it okay to use smart drugs?, Wellcome Trust Is Ketamine the Next Big Depression Drug?, Scientific American A Brief History of Mental Illness in Art, Scientific American Why Your Brain Thinks These Dots Are a Dog, Gizmodo Dreaming of animals and other warning signs of neurodegeneration, The Guardian The identification of risk for serious mental illnesses: Clinical and ethical challenges, The Neuroethics Blog Fantastic Distortions of Perception, Discover Magazine Understanding How Color Is Perceived in the Brain, Brain Blogger My dad, dementia and me, The Guardian Watch: Learning To Read Someone Else's Mind, Huffington Post Scientists unite to solve mystery of mental illness and neurological conditions, Wellcome Trust Shocks to the brain improve mathematical abilities, Nature News Why Is Psychiatry's New Manual So Much Like The Old One?, National Public Radio Are mental illnesses such as PMS and depression culturally determined?, The Guardian Ketamine Shows Significant Therapeutic Benefit in People With Treatment-Resistant Depression, Science Daily Drawing Closer to Alzheimer’s Magic Bullet? Drugs Found to Both Prevent and Treat Alzheimer's Disease in Mice, Science Daily Genetic Predictors of Postpartum Depression Uncovered, Science Daily Hacked Brainwave Headset Lets You Control Architecture by Thinking, Gizmodo Women 40% more likely than men to develop mental illness, study finds, The Guardian Deprivation: A wake-up call, Nature Outlook Scanning a brain that believes it is dead, Research Digest Neuroscience: Off to night school, Nature Outlook From the Academic Literature: ADHD and stimulant drug treatment: what can the children teach us?, Journal of Medical Ethics Might stimulant drugs support moral agency in ADHD children?, Journal of Medical Ethics The Neuroscience of Decision Making and Our Standards for Assessing Competence to Consent, Neuroethics Treating Yourself as an Object: Self-Objectification and the Ethical Dimensions of Antidepressant Use, Neuroethics Identification of the lateral position of a virtual object based on echoes by humans, Hearing Research Amphetamine Mechanisms and Actions at the Dopamine Terminal Revisited, The Journal of Neuroscience Long-Term Enhancement of Brain Function and Cognition Using Cognitive Training and Brain Stimulation, Current Biology Low Levels of Empathic Concern Predict Utilitarian Moral Judgment, PLoS One Ethicists’ and Nonethicists’ Responsiveness to Student E-mails: Relationships Among Expressed Normative Attitude, Self-Described Behavior, and Empirically Observed Behavior, Metaphilosophy The importance of mixed selectivity in complex cognitive tasks, Nature

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