PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): At last, a promising alternative to antipsychotics for schizophrenia, The Guardian In The Popular Press: Protein May Hold the Key to Who Gets Alzheimer’s, New York Times Do psychiatrists think everyone is crazy?, Aeon Magazine Neuroscience: Tuning the brain, Nature News Electric brain stimulation rouses some people from a minimally conscious or vegetative state, The Washington Post Spray can happy pills, Mind Hacks Brain-mapping projects to join forces, Nature News Insomniac flies and the brain’s sleep switch, Wellcome Trust Blog Doing Feminist Science/Feminists Doing Science: An interview with Dr. Sari van Anders, Founder of Gap Junction Science Part I, The Neuroethics Blog Doing Feminist Science/Feminists Doing Science: An interview with Dr. Sari van Anders, Founder of Gap Junction Science Part II, The Neuroethics Blog Strongest evidence yet of two distinct human cognitive systems, Science Daily The robot tricks to bridge the uncanny valley, New Scientist  Stress Makes Women More Empathetic, Men More Self-Centered, Time Forgetting Is An Actively Controlled Process In The Brain, Popular Science  Neuroscience 'used and abused' in child rearing policy, Science Daily Study: Freud Was Wrong About Repressed Memories, Time Lost sleep leads to loss of brain cells, study suggests, BBC News The Science of 'Paying It Forward', New York Times Emotion detectors could make driving safer, Science Daily Flies That Do Calculus With Their Wings, New York Times Frozen nightmares, Mind Hacks How Biotech Could Make Life in Prison a Living Hell, Gizmodo The amazing durability of infant memory: Three-year-olds show recognition of a person they met once at age one, BPS Research Digest From the Academic Literature: REST and stress resistance in ageing and Alzheimer’s disease, Nature The Metastable Brain, Neuron The regulation of cognitive enhancement devices: extending the medical model, Journal of Law and the Biosciences  Enhancing Moral Conformity and Enhancing Moral Worth, Neuroethics Neural Correlates of Personal Space Intrusion, The Journal of Neuroscience  The Good, the Bad, and the Just: Justice Sensitivity Predicts Neural Response during Moral Evaluation of Actions Performed by Others, The Journal of Neuroscience  Freedom and moral enhancement, Journal of Medical Ethics Headaches and Neuroimaging: High Utilization and Costs Despite Guidelines, JAMA Internal Medicine Views of Addiction Neuroscientists and Clinicians on the Clinical Impact of a ‘Brain Disease Model of Addiction’, Neuroethics Is stress affecting our ability to tune into others? Evidence for gender differences in the effects of stress on self-other distinction, Psychoneuroendocrinology Using memories to motivate future behaviour: An experimental exercise intervention, Memory Aversion to Happiness Across Cultures: A Review of Where and Why People are Averse to Happiness, Journal of Happiness Studies

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