PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Unexcited? There May Be a Pill for That, New York Times In The Popular Press Oxytocin, the Love Hormone, Also Keeps People Apart, Scientific American WWII Drug: The German Granddaddy of Crystal Meth, Spiegel Online The Cyborg Era Begins, Science Compulsive Behavior Triggered and Treated, Nature News DARPA's Crazy Mind-Controlled Prosthetics Have Gotten Even Better, Gizmodo Software that knows you're suffering: How SentiMetrix sees PTSD with artificial intelligence, Huffington Post Why Is Angry Birds So Addictive?, Scientific American Mind-controlled exoskeleton lets paralysed people walk, New Scientist  Mapping the mind with nanotechnology, The Guardian When Trick Questions Become False Memories, Discover Magazine Neuroskeptic The World Outside: Experiencing the world through the eyes of autism, Wellcome Trust Blog How to make a digital human brain, Fox News Kids experience schadenfreude by age four, maybe earlier, Research Digest Gene switches make prairie voles fall in love, Nature News Baby boomers are killing themselves at an alarming rate, raising question: Why?, Washington Post A Life With Others…In Your Head?, The Neuroethics Blog This Is Your Brain on Coffee, New York Times Well Blog Toy helicopter guided by power of thought, Nature News On Being an Octopus, Boston Review This Man Is Not a Cyborg. Yet., New York Times If Our Gadgets Could Measure Our Emotions, New York Times From the Academic Literature: The challenge of crafting policy for do-it-yourself brain stimulation, Journal of Medical Ethics Bilateral stereotactic anterior capsulotomy for obsessive-compulsive disorder: long-term follow-up, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, & Psychiatry  Feeling Better But Doing Worse: Effects of Facebook Self-Presentation on Implicit Self-Esteem and Cognitive Task Performance, Media Psychology Developing a Comprehensive and Comparative Questionnaire for Measuring Personality in Chimpanzees Using a Simultaneous Top-Down/Bottom-Up Design, American Journal of Primatology  Neuroethics in Spain: Neurological Determinism or Moral Freedom?, Neuroethics Altered Insula Response to Sweet Taste Processing After Recovery From Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa, American Journal of Psychiatry Females Scan More Than Males: A Potential Mechanism for Sex Differences in Recognition Memory, Psychological Science Brain structural abnormalities in Doberman pinschers with canine compulsive disorder, Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry  Impairing existing declarative memory in humans by disrupting reconsolidation, PNAS Neural correlates of mindfulness meditation-related anxiety relief, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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