PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): How Wintry Weather Affects Emotions, Scientific American In The Popular Press Computer science: The learning machines, Nature Hyping Artificial Intelligence, Yet Again, The New Yorker Beyond human: How I became a cyborg, BBC Future The Brain, in Exquisite Detail, New York Times Diving Deep into the Brain, Psychology Today: Dog's Best Friend Blog A Pill That Lets Adults Learn Perfect Pitch as Easily as Kids, Gizmodo Forgetting It All, New York Times Opinion Pages  Forget artificial intelligence. It's artificial idiocy we need to worry about, The Guardian  This pill could give your brain the learning powers of a 7-year-old, The Week Chimps Choose Friends Like Themselves, Says Study, Scientific American The Teacher Who Forgot How To Read, Neuroskeptic  10 of Sci-Fi's Most Memorable Humans With Programmable Brains, Wired Underwire How Being Heavy or Lean Shapes Our View of Exercise, New York Times Well Blog The pull for lobotomy, Mind Hacks Can neuroscience improve education?, Wellcome Trust  Breast cancer impersonates neurons to invade the brain, New Scientist  Autism and Well-Being, The Neuroethics Blog You Can’t Take It With You, but You Still Want More, New York Times Emospark is an emotionally-aware AI console for the home, Wired For Depression Treatment, Meditation Might Rival Medication, Forbes A New Method to Measure Consciousness Proposed, Scientific American Professor Probes Psychedelic Drugs for a Cure to Nicotine Addiction, Washingtonian  A Search for Self in a Brain Scan, New York Times  From the Academic Literature: Distracted Driving and Risk of Road Crashes among Novice and Experienced Drivers, New England Journal of Medicine What Is the Role of Brain Stimulation Therapies in the Treatment of Depression?, Current Psychiatry Reports Pathological gambling in Parkinson's disease. A comprehensive review, Parkinsonism & Related Disorders  Short- and Long-Term Effects of a Novel on Connectivity in the Brain, Brain Connectivity  Friends or Foes: Infants Use Shared Evaluations to Infer Others’ Social Relationships, Journal of Experimental Psychology  Dynamic microglial alterations underlie stress-induced depressive-like behavior and suppressed neurogenesis, Molecular Psychiatry  Hypothalamic Dysfunction of the Thrombospondin Receptor α2δ-1 Underlies the Overeating and Obesity Triggered by Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Deficiency, The Journal of Neuroscience  Amygdala Inputs to the Ventral Hippocampus Bidirectionally Modulate Social Behavior, The Journal of Neuroscience  Restraint Stress Alters Nociceptin/Orphanin FQ and CRF Systems in the Rat Central Amygdala: Significance for Anxiety-Like Behaviors, The Journal of Neuroscience

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