PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: How do neuroscientists integrate their knowledge of the brain with their religious and spiritual beliefs?, The Neuroethics Blog In The Popular Press The Problem with the Neuroscience Backlash, The New Yorker How poverty might change the brain, CNN Health New Nerve and Muscle Interfaces Aid Wounded Warrior Amputees, DARPA Do rising rates of antidepressant prescription translate into lower rates of suicide? Evidence from 29 countries, PLoS BLogs Do-it-yourself brain stimulation has scientists worried as healthy people try to make their minds work better, National Post How Money Makes You Lie and Cheat, Time Health & Family Why Don’t Cops Believe Rape Victims?, Slate Neuroscience: Rise of the neurocrats, Nature Books and Arts Concussion and Alzheimer’s Patients Show Similar Brain Changes, Time Health & Family A Conversation on "MINDLESS NEUROSCIENCE", THe Neurocritic Ethics: the questions posed by our bionic bodies, The Guardian A biological basis for free will, New Scientist  Trust your memory? Maybe you shouldn't, CNN Health Cheating Ourselves of Sleep, New York Times Well Blog Can Human Brain Tissue Make Mice Smarter?, The Neuroethics Blog Clapping reveals applause is a 'social contagion', BBC News Brain Can Plan Actions Toward Things the Eye Doesn't See, Science Daily From the Academic Literature: Biotechnology, Justice and Health, Journal of Practical Ethics Behavioral and biochemical dissociation of arousal and homeostatic sleep need influenced by prior wakeful experience in mice, PNAS Aβ induces astrocytic glutamate release, extrasynaptic NMDA receptor activation, and synaptic loss, PNAS Pharmacological brake-release of mRNA translation enhances cognitive memory, eLife Observing Victimization Augments Attribution of Minds to Vegetative Patients, Robots, and the Dead, Psychological Science  T'ain't What You Say, It's the Way That You Say It—Left Insula and Inferior Frontal Cortex Work in Interaction with Superior Temporal Regions to Control the Performance of Vocal Impersonations, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience  Identifying Emotions on the Basis of Neural Activation, PLoS One The Impact of Neuroimages in the Sentencing Phase of Capital Trials, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Recombinant Probes for Visualizing Endogenous Synaptic Proteins in Living Neurons, Neuron Neural Correlates of Risk Perception during Real-Life Risk Communication, The Journal of Neuroscience  Amygdala Activation for Eye Contact Despite Complete Cortical Blindness, The Journal of Neuroscience  Distinct behavioural and network correlates of two interneuron types in prefrontal cortex, Nature  The influence of neuroscience on US Supreme Court decisions about adolescents' criminal culpability, Nature Reviews Neuroscience

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