PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): Run Now, Remember More Later, Time In The Popular Press: The Moral: Aesop Knew Something About Crows, NY Times Paralysed men move again with spinal stimulation, BBC News Stress alters children's genomes, Nature News Why are scientists trying to map every single neuron in the brain?, Vox Is That Jesus in Your Toast?, New York Times Sunday Review It’s Time to Pay Attention to Sleep, the New Health Frontier, Time Gauging the Intelligence of Infants, New York Times Science  Can Color Blind People See More Colors When They Take Hallucinogenic Drugs?, Today I Found Out Inside the Mind of a Child With Autism, New York Times Well Blog Superhuman cyborg drummer plays his first live gig, New Scientist  DNA Nanobots Turn Cockroaches Into Living, 8-Bit Computers, Gizmodo Movies synchronize brains: Brain activity patterns show remarkable similarities across different people, Science Daily  Procrastination Is in Your Genes, Time The fourth state of matter: Consciousness, New Scientist  Bioengineer studying how the brain controls movement, Science Daily  From the Academic Literature: Conflicts of Interest in Recommendations to Use Computerized Neuropsychological Tests to Manage Concussion in Professional Football Codes, Neuroethics Public Understandings of Addiction: Where do Neurobiological Explanations Fit?, Neuroethics Leisure-time physical activity from mid- to late life, body mass index, and risk of dementia, Alzheimer's & Dementia Genetic Relations Among Procrastination, Impulsivity, and Goal Management Ability: Implications for the Evolutionary Origin of Procrastination, Psychological Science  Lesions of the Lateral Habenula Increase Voluntary Ethanol Consumption and Operant Self-Administration, Block Yohimbine-Induced Reinstatement of Ethanol Seeking, and Attenuate Ethanol-Induced Conditioned Taste Aversion, PLoS One

Subscribe to our mailing list The Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS) is a collaborative effort of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the  Johns Hopkins Brain Sciences Institute . The goal of PEBS is to ensure that research in brain science proceeds with an informed understanding of ethical issues, and that philosophical and empirical analyses of the advances in brain research proceed with an informed understanding of the science. With the PEBS Neuroethics News Roundup, we will present a weekly survey of the most pertinent a