PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): New Antidepressant: Rapid Agent Restores Pleasure-Seeking Ahead of Other Antidepressant Action, ScienceDaily Upcoming Event: International Neuroethics Society Annual Meeting Washington, D.C. November 13-14, 2014 In The Popular Press: Your Brain’s Response to Vile Images Says a Lot About Your Politics, Quartz An Easy Consciousness Test? Science What is Uniquely Human? A Report from The Social Brain Conference, The Neuroethics Blog This Brain Decoder Can Read the Words of Your Inner Monologue, Gizmodo Parasite-Schizophrenia Connection: One-Fifth of Schizophrenia Cases May Involve the Parasite T. Gondii, Science Daily Computer with Human-Like Learning Will Program Itself, NewScientist This Is Your Brain on Drugs, New York Times Scientists Implicate More Than 100 Genes In Causing Autism, NPR Shots Blog Curiosity: It Helps Us Learn, But Why?, NPR Ed Blog This is What Brain Cell Conversations Look Like, NewScientist Interesting Study on Deception, Neuroethics & Law Blog This Is Your Brain on Magic Mushrooms, Discover To Improve a Memory, Consider Chocolate, New York Times The Science of Charismatic Voices: How One Man Was Viewed as Authoritarian, then Benevolent, Science Daily Projecting a Robot's Intentions: New Spin on Virtual Reality Helps Engineers Read Robots' Minds, Science Daily EEG Test to Help Understand, Treat Schizophrenia, Science Daily Announcing… PLoS Neuroskeptic!, Discover Wearable Tech to Hack Your Brain, CNN Tech In the Academic Literature: Fairness Violations Elicit Greater Punishment on Behalf of Another than for Oneself, Nature Communications Prior Meditation Practice Modulates Performance and Strategy Use in Convergent- and Divergent-Thinking Problems, Mindfulness Relative Valuation of Pain in Human Orbitofrontal Cortex, The Journal of Neuroscience Big Data from Small Data: Data-Sharing in the 'Long Tail' of Neuroscience, Nature Neuroscience                Putting Big Data to Good Use in Neuroscience, Nature Neuroscience Nonpolitical Images Evoke Neural Predictors of Political Ideology, Current Biology Distributed Neural Representations of Logical Arguments in School-Age Children, Human Brain Mapping

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