PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): Neuroscience: Commitment beats will, Nature News In The Popular Press Researchers take on crucial question: Are haters gonna hate?, The Washington Post Wonkblog Researcher controls colleague’s motions in 1st human brain-to-brain interface, University of Washington Miniature 'human brain' grown in lab, BBC News The Relationship Between Lead and Crime, Sociological Images Pills that improve morality: Julian Savulescu at TEDxBarcelona, YouTube The Poor's Poor Mental Power, Science Nursing Homes' Drug Use Falls, The Wall Street Journal Why Does Food Taste So Delicious?, Scientific American Does Media Violence Lead to the Real Thing?, New York Times Sunday Review Are the Brains of Introverts and Extroverts Actually Different?, Discover Magazine The Crux Blog How City Living Is Reshaping the Brains and Behavior of Urban Animals, Wired Science  Promising First Test to Detect Parkinson’s Disease, Time Healthland  Even Severed Octopus Arms Have Smart Moves, Scientific American Blogs Neuroscience: Dopamine ramps up, Nature Just Thinking about Science Triggers Moral Behavior, Scientific American Different forms of dementia may lead to similar changes in brain function, Wellcome Trust Mind-altering drug could offer life free of heroin, New Scientist  Schizophrenics used to see demons and spirits. Now they talk about actors and hidden cameras – and make a lot of sense, Aeon Report from the Society for Disability Studies: Bringing Ethics, Bioethics, and Disability Studies Together, The Neuroethics Blog Super-recogniser officers policing Europe’s biggest party, Mind Hacks Neuroscience: Dopamine ramps up, Nature News Just Thinking about Science Triggers Moral Behavior, Scientific American Different Placebos Can Have Different Effects, Scientific American Twitter reveals the happiest spots in New York, New Scientist  From the Academic Literature: Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function, Science Neuroscience thinks big (and collaboratively), Nature Reviews Neuroscience  Optogenetics takes more control, Nature Reviews Neuroscience  Food Restriction Increases Glutamate Receptor-Mediated Burst Firing of Dopamine Neurons, The Journal of Neuroscience  Delusions and the Role of Beliefs in Perceptual Inference, Journal of Neuroscience  DNA methylation regulates associative reward learning, Nature Neuroscience  Sight over sound in the judgment of music performance, PNAS Money and trust among strangers, PNAS   Real-Time Strategy Game Training: Emergence of a Cognitive Flexibility Trait, PLoS One Attitudes without objects: Evidence for a dispositional attitude, its measurement, and its consequences, Personality and Social Psychology Familiarity promotes the blurring of self and other in the neural representation of threat, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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