PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): Evolution and Bad Boyfriends, New York Times Sunday Review  In The Popular Press Perceiving Is Believing, PLoS Blogs Memory Modification, Emotions, and Social “Collective” Memory I (by Greg Caramenico), Neuroethics & Law Blog Tibetan monastics and a neuroscientist: Some lessons learned and others taught, The Neuroethics Blog Brain decoding: Reading minds, Nature News  Men Walk Slower When They’re In Love, Time Health & Family Neuroscience wrongs will make a right, New Scientist  Infants' maths skills predict their potential, Nature News The Selfish Reasons Behind Why We Give, Time Health & Family Mini Brains and Human–Mouse Hybrids Could Reveal the Brain’s Wiring Diagram, Scientific American Pesticide makes invading ants suicidally aggressive, Nature News Howard Dully on recovery from 'ice-pick' lobotomy, BBC News  A Map of How Personality Types Vary Across the United States, Gizmodo IBM unveils computer fed by 'electronic blood', BBC News Extra gene makes mice manic, Nature A Point of View: Will machines ever be able to think?, BBC News Magazine What is the Uncanny Valley?, Scientific American With Addiction, Breaking A Habit Means Resisting A Reflex, National Public Radio Famous "Trolley Problem" Exposes Moral Instincts, Scientific American Monkeys 'take turns in conversation', BBC News Jeepers Creepers! Why Dark Rides Scare the Pants Off Us, Collectors Weekly When Playing Video Games Means Sitting On Life's Sidelines, National Public Radio The Science of Sin, Scientific American From the Academic Literature: Sleep Drives Metabolite Clearance from the Adult Brain, Science  The world can look better: enhancing beauty experience with brain stimulation, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience  Divided We Stand: Three Psychological Regions of the United States and Their Political, Economic, Social, and Health Correlates, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Alpha 2B Adrenoceptor Genotype Moderates Effect of Reboxetine on Negative Emotional Memory Bias in Healthy Volunteers, The Journal of Neuroscience  A Scaffold for Efficiency in the Human Brain, Journal of Neuroscience

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