PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): Below the Surface: How Our Unconscious Rules Our Lives, Scientific American In The Popular Press Ski Helmet Use Isn’t Reducing Brain Injuries, New York Times    Editing Your Life's Stories Can Create Happier Endings, National Public Radio Shots Blog Medicare to Cover More Mental Health Costs, New York Times Health ButtonMasher: AI takes on humans to create video game, New Scientist  Navigating Our World Like Birds and Bees, New York Times Well Blog The Science of Chocolate, YouTube How Wintry Weather Affects Emotions, Scientific American Thought-controlled robotics acting as prosthetic limbs, Albuquerque Journal  The most accurate psychopaths in cinema, Mind Hacks Where Emotions Hit You, Visualized, Gizmodo Vitamin E Slows Decline of Some Alzheimer’s Patients in Study, New York Times New Old Age Blog Try mixed reality, where the virtual and real collide, New Scientist  Is Consciousness Universal?, Scientific American Testosterone makes male canaries sing more, but not better, UPI From the Academic Literature:   Affective and inflammatory responses among orchestra musicians in performance situation, Brian, Behavior, and Immunity  Associations Between Serum Cholesterol Levels and Cerebral Amyloidosis, JAMA Neurology  Associations Between Serum Cholesterol Levels and Cerebral Amyloidosis, JAMA Neurology  Better Get Back to Work: A Role for Motor Beta Desynchronization in Incentive Motivation, The Journal of Neuroscience  Changing the Spatial Scope of Attention Alters Patterns of Neural Gain in Human Cortex, The Journal of Neuroscience  Nicotine exploits a COPI-mediated process for chaperone-mediated up-regulation of its receptors, Journal of General Physiology  Head trauma and in vivo measures of amyloid and neurodegeneration in a population-based study, Neurology  Subthalamic stimulation modulates self-estimation of patients with Parkinson’s disease and induces risk-seeking behaviour, Neuroscience

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