PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): A Revolution in Mental Health, Chronicle of Higher Education In The Popular Press Empires, bureaucracies and religion arise from war, Nature News Intelligence Testing: Accurate or Extremely Biased?, The Neuroethics Blog How Robots Can Trick You Into Loving Them, New York Times Magazine   Stress Influences Our Moral Behaviour, Practical Ethics Food Truck Uses Sensory Trickery So You Can Enjoy Endangered Eats, Gizmodo Yawning Not Contagious for Children with Autism, Scientific American It is mind control but not as we know it, Mind Hacks Human Nature and the Moral Economy, Scientific American Scientists Successfully "Erase" Fear Using Scent Therapy, Gizmodo How to regulate Ritalin and Adderall (by Veljko Dubljevic), Neuroethics & Law Blog A comic repeat with video games and violence, Mind Hacks Man controls new prosthetic leg using thought alone, New Scientist  Rethinking the Brain's Mind Modules?, Neuroskeptic Why Your Brain Isn’t Fooled By Sugar Stand-Ins, Time Health & Family Most Depressing Brain Finding Ever, Huffington Post Blogs Smart Teenage Brains May Get Some Extra Learning Time, National Public Radio Shots Blog Sleep therapy can change bad memories, Nature News The rise of the circuit-based human, Mind Hacks Commonly Prescribed Statin Linked to Memory Impairment, Study in Rats Suggests, Science Daily From the Academic Literature: Neuroscientists in court, Nature Reviews Neuroscience  Robotic Leg Control with EMG Decoding in an Amputee with Nerve Transfers, NEJM Individual Predisposition for Learning and Neuroplasticity, The Journal of Neuroscience  Online evaluation of novel choices by simultaneous representation of multiple memories, Nature Neuroscience  Slicing a pie is no piece of cake, Nature Neuroscience  Feedback that confirms reward expectation triggers auditory cortex activity, Journal of Neurophysiology  From Early Sensory Specialization to Later Perceptual Generalization: Dynamic Temporal Progression in Perceiving Individual Threats, The Journal of Neuroscience  Indirection and symbol-like processing in the prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia, PNAS Robust Changes in Reward Circuitry During Reward Loss in Current and Former Cocaine Users During Performance of a Monetary Incentive Delay Task, Biological Psychiatry  Incidental sounds of locomotion in animal cognition, Animal Cognition  The Effects of Caffeine on Sleep and Maturational Markers in the Rat, PLoS One

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