PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): Where Is The Brain In The Human Brain Project? Nature News In The Popular Press: Could Deep-Brain Stimulation Fortify Soldiers’ Minds? Scientific American Brain-to-Brain Communication Is Finally Possible. It's Just Very Clunky, Vox Woman of 24 Found to Have No Cerebellum in Her Brain, NewScientist Deep-Brain Stimulation — Entering the Era of Human Neural-Network Modulation, NEJM Perpective Cyranoids: Stanley Milgram's Creepiest Experiment, Neuroskeptic This Is Your Brain. This Is Your Brain On Music, NPREd Google Glass, Now In Tune With Your Emotions, NewScientist A Brief History of Psychedelic Psychiatry, The Guardian: Neurophilosophy Your Fingertips Perform Brain-Like Calculations, D-Brief Blog Being In Control Makes You More Persistent, Brain Scans Show, TIME How The Brain Finds What It's Looking For, Science Daily People's Belief in Free Will Is Lower When They Need to Urinate or Desire Sex, BPS Research Digest Wild Teenage Behavior Linked to Rapid Cognitive Change in the Brain, The Guardian Do Subliminal Messages Actually Work? Vox How Caffeine Evolved to Help Plants Survive and Help People Wake Up, NY Times Curing Blindness: Vision Quest, Nature News In the Academic Literature:   Benzodiazepine Use and Risk of Alzheimer's Disease: Case-Control Study, The BMJ Neuroanatomy Predicts Individual Risk Attitudes, Journal of Neuroscience Clarifying the Role of Neural Networks in Complex Hallucinatory Phenomena, Journal of Neuroscience Music Enrichment Programs Improve the Neural Encoding of Speech in At-Risk Children, Journal of Neuroscience ABO Blood Type, Factor VIII, and Incident Cognitive Impairment in the REGARDS Cohort, Neurology Reactions to Media Violence: It’s in the Brain of the Beholder, PLOS One

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