PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: How Writing Heals Wounds — Of Both the Mind and Body, Time Healthland In The Popular Press Psychopathic Criminals Have Empathy Switch, BBC News Brain Chemistry and the Self, On Point with Tom Ashbrook/NPR Can Brain Scans Diagnose Mental Illness? Scientific American Dolphins May Have Individual Names, Scientific American Scientists: Like Proust, Apes Have Autobiographical Memory, NPR The Two-Way Blog About the Physiological Society of Japan Ethics Symposium, The Neuroethics Blog Fake Smile in a Mirror Makes You Buy What You Try On, NewScientist AI Scores the Same as a 4-Year-Old in Verbal IQ Test, NewScientist Good Vibrations: Mediating Mood Through Brain Ultrasound, Science Daily A Literary Review of the DSM-5, Mind Hacks Blog President Obama Requests Bioethics Commission to Play Early Role in BRAIN Intitiative, PCSBI Sunny Disposition May Shield You From Heart Problems, US News Health Male and Female Alcoholics Risk Relapse in Different Situations, Scientific American Love Hormone is Two-Faced: Oxytocin Strengthens Bad Memories and Can Increase Fear and Anxiety, Science Daily From the Academic Literature: Reduced spontaneous but relatively normal deliberate vicarious representation in psychopathy, Brain Stem cells expanded from the human embryonic hindbrain stably retain regional specification and high neurogenic potency, Journal of Neuroscience The countermanding task revisited: mimicry of race models, Journal of Neuroscience The genetic and neuroanatomical basis of social dysfunction: lessons from neurofibromatosis, Human Brain Mapping Punishing unfairness: rewarding or the organization of a reactively aggressive response? Human Brain Mapping The same old song: the power of familiarity in music choice, Marketing Letters Medial septal nucleus theta frequency deep brain stimulation improves spatial working memory after traumatic brain injury, Journal of Neurotrauma Fear enhancing effects of septal oxytocin receptors, Nature Neuroscience Bad news for conservatives? Moral judgments and the dark triad personality traits, Neuroethics

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