PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): Baby Used in Notorious Fear Experiment is Lost No More, New Scientist Health Blog In The Popular Press: Bionic Arm Restores Sense of Feeling, BBC News An Underwear Fetish Brain?, Discover Nobel Prize in Medicine Is Awarded to Three Who Discovered Brain’s ‘Inner GPS’, New York Times Family of ‘Brain-Dead’ California Girl Seeks to Have Her Declared Alive Again, The Guardian Seeing Neurological Patients As Characters, Not Case Studies, NPR I Am Dolphin Proves Your Mother Wrong, Technology Tell UCI Awarded $8 Million for Creation of Brain Cell Database, LA Times Research Shows Dogs Are Much Smarter Than We Think, Vox How Exercise Can Boost Young Brains, New York Times Well Blog 5 Myths About the Human Brain Debunked, Vox Can Neuroscience Discuss Religion?, Neuroethics Blog Cerebellum's Growth Spurt Turned Monkeys into Humans, NewScientist Why Saying is Believing - The Science of Self-Talk, NPR Shots Blog MRI Technique Detects Evidence of Cognitive Decline Before Symptoms Appear, Science Daily Computer Mind Meld Gives Voice to Man After A Stroke, NewScientist In the Academic Literature: Marmosets are Stars of Japan's Ambitious Brain Project, Nature Buttressing Regulation of Cognitive Enhancement Devices with Principles of Harm Reduction, Journal of Law and the Biosciences A Neural Interface Provides Long-Term Stable Natural Touch Perception, Science Translational Medicine States of Curiosity Modulate Hippocampus-Dependent Learning via the Dopaminergic Circuit, Neuron Manipulating Item Proportion and Deception Reveals Crucial Dissociation Between Behavioral, Autonomic, and Neural Indices of Concealed Information, Human Brain Mapping Public Attitudes Toward Cognitive Enchancement, Neuroethics                        Patterns of Brain Activation When Mothers View Their Own Child and Dog: An fMRI Study, PLoS One                                                                                   Differential Associations of Early Callous-Unemotional, Oppositional, and ADHD Behaviors: Multiple Domains Within Early-Starting Conduct Problems?, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry                   Regional Diversity and Developmental Dynamics of the AMPA-Receptor Proteome in the Mammalian Brain, Neuron

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