PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): Stop Trusting Yourself, New York Times Sunday Review In The Popular Press The Older Mind May Just Be a Fuller Mind, New York Times Secrets of the Brain, National Geographic Nowhere to Go: Mentally Ill Youth in Crisis, 60 Minutes Video: Patricia Churchland on the Colbert Report, Colbert Nation Postmortem of famous brain explains why its owner couldn't learn, Nature News Scientists Map What Your Brain Looks Like On English, TIME Video: Expanding the 'neuro', Neuroethics at the Core Video: Are We Our Brains?: A Short Journey Through Emotions, Neuroethics at the Core Video: Brains, Minds and Institutions, Neuroethics at the Core Caffeine: Destroyer and Enhancer of Memory?, Fast Company  A Brain Basis for Musical Hallucinations?, Discover Magazine Animate, inanimate, and social: How the brain categorizes information, Science Daily DDT: Pesticide linked to Alzheimer's, BBC News Health Impaired hearing linked to accelerated brain tissue loss in older adults, JHU Hub Scratch a mirror image of your itch to bring relief, New Scientist  The Transformative Power Of Play And Its Link To Creativity, Forbes New brain-scanning technique shows when and where the brain processes visual information, Science Daily  Neuroscience: Joined-up thinking, Nature Books and Arts Study Suggests that Hallucinogens May Promote Drug-Resistant Behavior, Fox 42 News From the Academic Literature: An electroconvulsive therapy procedure impairs reconsolidation of episodic memories in humans, Nature Neuroscience  Flies and humans share a motion estimation strategy that exploits natural scene statistics, Nature Neuroscience  Post-study caffeine administration enhances memory consolidation in humans, Nature Neuroscience  The Development of Children's Prelife Reasoning: Evidence From Two Cultures, Child Development Naturalistic Follow-up of Youths Treated for Pediatric Anxiety Disorders, JAMA Psychiatry  Structural Maturation and Brain Activity Predict Future Working Memory Capacity during Childhood Development, The Journal of Neuroscience  A Novel Role for Brain Interleukin-6: Facilitation of Cognitive Flexibility in Rat Orbitofrontal Cortex, The Journal of Neuroscience  Motor Costs and the Coordination of the Two Arms, The Journal of Neuroscience

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