PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): Neuroscientists in court, Nature Reviews Neuroscience  In The Popular Press The Art and Science of Recognizing Yourself, Wellcome Trust Studying How The Blind Perceive Race, National Public Radio Code Switch Fewer Drugs Being Prescribed to Treat Mental Illness Among Kids, Time Health & Family Why does the human brain create false memories?, BBC News I’ll Have What She’s Thinking, New York Times Sunday Review Autism and the Communication of 'Risk', The Neuroethics Blog Are We Hard-Wired for War?, New York Times Sunday Review  Why Brain Surgeons Want Help From A Maggot-Like Robot, National Public Radio The effect of diminished belief in free will, Mind Hacks How the Freaky Octopus Can Help us Understand the Human Brain, Wired  Can Your Brain Be Hacked?, Gizmodo The Shocking Truth of the Notorious Milgram Obedience Experiments, The Crux A war of biases, Mind Hacks Ballet Dancers' Brains Adapt to Stop Them Getting in a Spin, Science Daily Ah, There’s Nothing Like New Baby Smell, New York Times Well Blog Scientists Have Figured Out How to Turn Off Hunger, Gizmodo Brain scans of porn addicts: what's wrong with this picture?, The Guardian Putting Time in Perspective, Huffington Post College 7 Mind-Blowing Artifacts That Reveal the Strange Beauty of Brains, Gizmodo Can a drug make you tell the truth?, BBC News What Do Babies Really Know?, Scientific American From the Academic Literature: Neurotrophic factor expression in expandable cell populations from brain samples in living patients with Parkinson's disease, The FASEB Journal Functional evaluation of autism-associated mutations in NHE9, Nature Communications  Information Sharing in the Brain Indexes Consciousness in Noncommunicative Patients, Current Biology Maternal status regulates cortical responses to the body odor of newborns, Frontiers in Psychology Nicotine is more addictive, not more cognitively therapeutic in a neurodevelopmental model of schizophrenia produced by neonatal ventral hippocampal lesions, Addiction Biology

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