PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: This Is Your Brain on Coffee, New York Times Well Blog In The Popular Press Heartbeat used to generate out-of-body experience, NewScientist Why Music Makes Our Brain Sing, New York Times Sunday Review How the brain controls a 'mind machine', BBC News How do neuroscientists integrate their knowledge of the brain with their religious and spiritual beliefs?, The Neuroethics Blog The Neurobiology behind a Sense of Place, Brain Blogger What gives the human mind its edge?, New Scientist  Fish on Prozac Prove Anxious, Antisocial, Aggressive, Scientific American Brain scan predicts best therapy for depression, Nature News Dad's Life Stress Exposure Leaves Mark On Sperm, Can Affect Offspring Brain Development, Science Daily Your Hidden Censor: What Your Mind Will Not Let You See, Scientific American A Sense of Adventure May Distinguish Identical Twins From Each Other, Time Health & Family When Cleaning fMRI Data is a Nuisance, Neuroskeptic  Infants Are Born to Talk, Scientific American China's Alzheimer's time bomb revealed, New Scientist  Even A Small Change In Habits Helps Fend Off Stroke, National Public Radio Shots Blog Hands-Free Gadgets Don't Mean Risk-Free Driving, National Public Radio Shots Blog Really good baseball players don’t just “keep their eye on the ball”, Discover Magazine Blogs: Seriously, Science? Brain's 'Dark Side' as Key to Cocaine Addiction, Science Daily Video Gamers Really Do See More: Gamers Capture More Information Faster for Visual Decision-Making, Science Daily Extreme therapy: Inside a hospital for dangerous minds, New Scientist  When giving reasons leads to worse decisions, Mind Hacks Hey kid, what do you know?, Johns Hopkins Magazine What happened to U.S. mental health care after deinstitutionalization?, Washington Post Why Wanting Expensive Things Makes Us So Much Happier Than Buying Them, The Atlantic  Layered Floating Paintings Inspired by CT Scans, My Modern Met From the Academic Literature: Optogenetic Stimulation of Lateral Orbitofronto-Striatal Pathway Suppresses Compulsive Behaviors, Science  Scientific faith: Belief in science increases in the face of stress and existential anxiety, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pallidal Deep Brain Stimulation Modulates Afferent Fibers, Efferent Fibers, and Glia, The Journal of Neuroscience Mirror or Megaphone?: How relationships between narcissism and social networking site use differ on Facebook and Twitter, Computers in Human Behavior Soccer Heading Is Associated with White Matter Microstructural and Cognitive Abnormalities, Radiology Double deletion of melanocortin 4 receptors and SAPAP3 corrects compulsive behavior and obesity in mice, PNAS fMRI responses to Jung's Word Association Test: implications for theory, treatment and research, Journal of Analytical Psychology A Behavioral Demonstration of Overconfidence in Judgment, Psychological Science Chronic Antidepressant Treatment Impairs the Acquisition of Fear Extinction, Biological Psychiatry  Dynamics of Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Adult Humans, Cell Sociodemographic, psychiatric and somatic risk factors for suicide: a Swedish national cohort study, Psychological Medicine

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