PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): Scientists Say They Need Philosophers to Continue Their Research, i09 In The Popular Press: The Divide Over Involuntary Mental Health Treatment, National Public Radio Can the Nervous System Be Hacked?, New York Times Depressed mice have excitable neurons, Nature News The Myth of Einstein's Brain?, Neuroskeptic  All Circuits Are Busy, New York Times Bioethics Commission Addresses Approaches to Ethics Integration in Neuroscience Research, Bioethics.gov Military Plans To Test Brain Implants To Fight Mental Disorders, National Public Radio The Blind Woman Who Sees Rain, But Not Her Daughter's Smile, National Public Radio Expert workshop on cognitive enhancement device regulation: Are there ‘two worlds’ of devices?, Practical Ethics US Supreme Court strikes IQ cutoff for death penalty cases, Nature News Blog A review of The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand Enhance, and Empower the Mind, The Neuroethics Blog Brain tweak could let you pop a pill to stop seizures, New Scientist  Three Questions with the Man Leading Baidu’s New AI Effort, MIT Technology Review Cynical? You may be hurting your brain health, Science Daily Porn May Be Bad for Your Brain, Study Suggests, TIME Obama Hosts Summit on Sports-Related Concussions, Kaiser Health News Google unveils design for its own self-driving car, New Scientist  Gregg Caruso and Neil Levy, Philosophy TV From the Academic Literature: Minds, motherboards, and money: futurism and realism in the neuroethics of BCI technologies, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience  Explaining the alluring influence of neuroscience information on scientific reasoning, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition  Large-scale genomics unveils the genetic architecture of psychiatric disorders, Nature Neuroscience  The Rising Tide of tDCS in the Media and Academic Literature, Neuron

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