PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): Lumosity: a "personal trainer for your brain"?, The Neuroethics Blog In The Popular Press: Foul Weather Begets Foul Moods Online, National Public Radio Shots Blog Do Brain Workouts Work? Science Isn't Sure, New York Times Well Blog The '60s Are Gone, But Psychedelic Research Trip Continues, National Public Radio Exploring the mind in a bunker, The Guardian I am My Conscious Experience, Neuroethics at the Core What Happens in the Brain When Blind People Learn to See With Sound, Wired At last, a promising alternative to antipsychotics for schizophrenia, The Guardian Scientists unlock mystery of out-of-body experiences (aka astral trips), Sploid A Concussion Monitor to Measure Hard Knocks, New York Times Well Blog A burst of orange light wakes up our 'circadian eye', New Scientist  Inherited Alzheimer's damage greater decades before symptoms appear, Science Daily CLB: Podcast Series with Hank Greely, Stanford Talks Brain cell regeneration may alleviate symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, Medical Xpress Strange But True: Music Doesn't Make Some People Happy, National Public Radio Shots Blog Smokers' brains biased against negative images of smoking, Science Daily What’s the evidence for the power of reason to change minds?, Mind Hacks To drink or not to drink: Decision-making center of brain identified, Science Daily The Science of Older and Wiser, New York Times New Test Predicts Alzheimer's at Lease Three Years in Advance, Gizmodo Webcast: brain science and social responsibility. Join the conversation, Neuroethics at the Core Hot on the trail of consciousness in brain and machine, New Scientist  The next stage of neuroenhancement? Transcranial direct current stimulation, The Neuroethics Blog Elephants recognize the voices of their enemies, Nature News Generation jitters: are we addicted to caffeine?, The Guardian Memories Can Go Astray When We Step Outside Our Bodies, National Public Radio Shots Blog Report Says Medication Use Is Rising for Adults With Attention Disorder, New York Times From the Academic Literature: Human C-Tactile Afferents Are Tuned to the Temperature of a Skin-Stroking Caress, The Journal of Neuroscience  The Adaptive Trade-Off between Detection and Discrimination in Cortical Representations and Behavior, Neuron Photic memory for executive brain responses, PNAS Visual Cortex Extrastriate Body-Selective Area Activation in Congenitally Blind People “Seeing” by Using Sounds, Current Biology  Chimpanzees empathize with group mates and humans, but not with baboons or unfamiliar chimpanzees, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Biological Sciences Humans Optimize Decision-Making by Delaying Decision Onset, PLoS One Genetic modifiers of cognitive maintenance among older adults, Human Brain Mapping Life context of pharmacological academic performance enhancement among university students – a qualitative approach, BMC Medical Ethics Disparities in deep brain stimulation surgery among insured elders with Parkinson disease, Neurology

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