PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): Do psychiatrists think everyone is crazy?, Aeon Magazine In The Popular Press: A balanced look at brain scanning, Mind Hacks How your brain makes moral judgments, CNN Why Selfies Sometimes Look Weird to Their Subjects, The Atlantic Norms & Neurons (Amanda Pustilnik), Neuroethics & Law Blog Autism and looking preferences: The ethics of pre-symptomatic detection, The Neuroethics Blog Brain-Buzzing Thinking Cap Can Make You Smarter or Dumber, Gizmodo Brain Changes Suggest Autism Starts In The Womb, NPR Shots Blog The Connection Between Spring and Suicide, The Weather Channel The Scientific Quest to Prove Bisexuality Exists, New York Times Therapists' Apps Aim To Help With Mental Health Issues, National Public Radio Shots Blog At Airports, a Misplaced Faith in Body Language, New York Times Non-academic young people take brain stimulants more frequently than students, Science Daily Last Chance Saloon (part 4): Brain scans, cliches and complexity, Mosaic Science  Can what you eat affect your mental health? New research links diet and the mind, The Washington Post Dolphin whistle instantly translated by computer, New Scientist Face-blind people can learn to tell similar shapes apart, Nature News From the Academic Literature: Deep brain stimulation for the treatment of addiction: basic and clinical studies and potential mechanisms of action, Psychopharmacology  Role of Conditioning and Verbal Suggestion in Placebo and Nocebo Effects on Itch, PLoS One Neuroimaging: Beginning to Appreciate Its Complexities, The Hastings Center Report Brain Images, Babies, and Bathwater: Critiquing Critiques of Functional Neuroimaging, The Hastings Center Report Elucidating the Severity of Preclinical Traumatic Brain Injury Models: A Role for Functional Assessment?, Neurosurgery Visual space is compressed in prefrontal cortex before eye movements, Nature Letter

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