PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Those resistant to 'love hormone' may also be easier to hypnotize, Nature In The Popular Press Diagnosing the Wrong Deficit, New York Times Sunday Review   How Ray Kurzweil Will Help Google Make the Ultimate AI Brain, Wired Strongest Evidence of Animal Culture Seen in Monkeys and Whales, Wired Science Why Sleep Deprivation Eases Depression, Scientific American Should Gun Restrictions Be Placed on Veterans With PTSD?, New York Times At War Blog Billy Corgan doesn't practice guitar, CNN Criminologist Believes Violent Behavior Is Biological, National Public Radio Books The (sigh) Psychopath Brain, Discover Magazine TIMELINE: Deinstitutionalization And Its Consequences, Mother Jones NICU treatments linked to intellectual disabilities, Reuters The Problem With How We Treat Bipolar Disorder, The New York Times Magazine   Want to remember something? Clenching your fist doesn't help!, The Neurocritic The Brain: Our Food-Traffic Controller, New York Times Sunday Review   Is technology harming our brains?, Wellcome Trust Blackjack and Cognitive Enhancement, Bill of Health The Overgeneralization of Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Scientific American Race perception isn’t automatic, Mind Hacks Why Caffeine In Coffee Is A Miracle Drug For The Tired, National Public Radio Salt Blog Open Your Mind to the New Psychedelic Science, Wired Philosophy That Stirs the Waters, New York Times Books   A Social Account of Suffering, The Neuroethics Blog A Sense of Where You Are, New York Times Science   Are Doctors Diagnosing Too Many Kids with ADHD?, Scientific American Antibiotic Protects Men from Being Too Trusting of Attractive Women, Discover Happiness tracking software could gauge mood in photos, New Scientist  Esteemed Journal Nature Dedicates Issue To GMOs, Discover Magazine Brain patterns may help predict relapse risk for alcoholism, NIH News & Events   From the Academic Literature: An indirect resilience to addiction, Nature Neuroscience Oligodendrocyte progenitors balance growth with self-repulsion to achieve homeostasis in the adult brain, Nature Neuroscience Abnormal brain network organization in body dysmorphic disorder, Nature Corticostriatal neurons in auditory cortex drive decisions during auditory discrimination, Nature  A blood-based predictor for neocortical Aβ burden in Alzheimer’s disease: results from the AIBL study, Molecular Psychiatry  Expertise modulates local regional homogeneity of spontaneous brain activity in the resting brain: An fMRI study using the model of skilled acupuncturists, Human Brain Mapping

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