PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): Dogs Are People, Too, New York Times In The Popular Press Evolution and Bad Boyfriends, New York Times Sunday Review  How We'll Command the Future With Our Thoughts, Gizmodo Important New Theory Explains Where Old Memories, Scientific American Existential Neuroscience: a field in search of meaning, The Neurocritic  Gearing Up for New Currents in Sports Enhancement, The Neuroethics Blog Finally, a Way to Read Minds, Time Health & Family  US Military PsyOps video appears online, Mind Hacks Everyday Jet Lag, New York Times Well Blog Electroceuticals and Mind Control, Practical Ethics The Future of Prosthetics Could Be This Brain-Controlled Bionic Leg, Wired Ketamine-like drug lifts depression without the trip, New Scientist  New Brain Disease Test Could Force NFL to Address Its Concussion Epidemic, Wired Science  Why Good-Looking People Like Kissing More, Time Healthland Apes comfort each other 'like humans', BBC News Human gestures 'understood by elephants', BBC News Science  Why Your Brain Needs More Downtime, Scientific American New Brain Disease Test Could Force NFL to Address Its Concussion Epidemic, Wired  Birth Gets the Brain Ready to Sense the World, Science Daily Scientists Identify Brain Region That Helps Us Tell Up From Down; Could Aid In Dizziness Treatments, Huffington Post A Bridge Between Western Science and Eastern Faith, New York Times Ouch! In the Brain, Social Rejection Feels Like Physical Pain, Discover Magazine The Crux Blog Neurons Fire Backward in Sleep, Scientific American A tour through isolation, Mind Hacks Monkey feels touch with prosthetic hand, New Scientist  Chimp calls suggest language evolved from a song, New Scientist From the Academic Literature: Publication trends in neuroimaging of minimally conscious states, PeerJ Working Memory Differences Between Children Living in Rural and Urban Poverty, Journal of Cognition and Development  Tarasoff Duties after Newtown, Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics Reward-based hypertension control by a synthetic brain–dopamine interface, PNAS Restoring the sense of touch with a prosthetic hand through a brain interface, PNAS A Drosophila model of closed head traumatic brain injury, PNAS Witnessing hateful people in pain modulates brain activity in regions associated with physical pain and reward, Frontiers in Psychology Numerical processing in the human parietal cortex during experimental and natural conditions, Nature Communications

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