PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): Gut Bacteria Might Guide The Workings Of Our Minds, National Public Radio Shots Blog In The Popular Press Immunology: The pursuit of happiness, Nature News Just Neurons?, The Neuroethics Blog New Tools Light Up the Intricacies of the Brain, Science  Caffeine compared: from coke and coffee to aspirin and chocolate, The Guardian How to Erase Bad Memories, Scientific American The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath, Smithsonian  How Oxytocin Makes Men (Almost) Monogamous, Time Health Getting to the Bottom of a Digital Lollipop, New York Times Bits Blog This drug could make a huge dent in heroin addiction. So why isn’t it used more?, Washington Post Online Data Trove Exposes Our Cognitive Quirks, Scientific American The Neuroscience of Everyday Life, Neuroskeptic  Waiting for pain can cause more dread than pain itself, New Scientist  Creativity, Madness and Drugs, Scientific American Head Movement Is Bad News For Neuroscience (Again), Discover Magazine Research On Video Games And Mental Health, The Diane Rehm Show Self-Cutters May Be Seeking Pain Relief, Scientific American Your Brain Has 2 Clocks, Scientific American Experimental Airport Acoustics Make Travelers Want to Shop More, Gizmodo Meat, Egg, Dairy Nutrient Essential for Brain Development, Science Daily Thyme to touch, The Economist  From the Academic Literature: Beyond Blind Optimism and Unfounded Fears: Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment Resistant Depression, Neuroethics  Health, Happiness and Human Enhancement—Dealing with Unexpected Effects of Deep Brain Stimulation, Neuroethics  Deep Brain Stimulation in Children: Parental Authority Versus Shared Decision-Making, Neuroethics  Mutations in the Gabrb1 gene promote alcohol consumption through increased tonic inhibition, Nature Communications  Functional centrality of amygdala, striatum and hypothalamus in a “small-world” network underlying joy: An fMRI study with music, Human Brain Mapping Methoxetamine (MXE) – A Phenomenological Study of Experiences Induced by a “Legal High” from the Internet, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs  Do television and electronic games predict children’s psychosocial adjustment? Longitudinal research using the UK Millennium Cohort Study, Archives of Disease in Childhood What's better for me? Fundamental role for lateral habenula in promoting subjective decision biases, Nature Neuroscience A new type of microglia gene targeting shows TAK1 to be pivotal in CNS autoimmune inflammation, Nature Neuroscience  Oxytocin enhances brain reward system responses in men viewing the face of their female partner, PNAS

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