PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): It's Okay If 'My Brain Made Me Do It': People's Intuitions About Free Will and Neuroscientific Prediction, Cognition In The Popular Press: BRAIN Initiative Bets on Wearable Scanners, Laser-Controlled Cells, NPR Shots Blog Can Animals or Computers Have Metacognition?, Scientific American Mind Baby Used in Notorious Fear Experiment is Lost No More, New Scientist Health Blog More Groups Join Project on the Brain, New York Times The Benefits of 'Binocularity', The New York Times Neuroscientists Use Morphed Images of Hollywood Celebrities to Reveal How Neurons Make Up Your Mind, Science Daily Chimps With Tools: Wild Ape Culture Caught on Camera, BBC News A Doctor Unlocks Mysteries of the Brain by Talking and Watching, NPR Shots Blog Is Your Brain Male or Female?, BBC News How Exercise May Protect Against Depression, New York Times Well Blog How Physical Exercise Protects the Brain from Stress-Induced Depression, Science Daily Neuroethics and the Emory Tibet Science Initiative, Neuroethics Blog Bad News for "Intelligence-Genes", Oxford Practical Ethics Blog Make Tough Tasks Seem Easier By Zapping the Brain, New Scientist Health Predicting Future Course of Psychotic Illness, Science Daily In the Academic Literature: BRAIN Gain: A Mixture of Focus and Innovation is the Way Forward for Big Neuroscience, Nature The Impact of Mind-Body Awareness Training on the Early Learning of a Brain-Computer Interface, Technology Consorting with Big Science, Nature Neuroscience Feelings Without Memory in Alzheimer Disease, Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology Reversal of Cognitive Decline: A Novel Therapeutic Program, Aging Regulation of Alternative VEGF-A mRNA Splicing Is A Therapeutic Target for Analgesia, Neurobiology of Disease                        Deep Brain Stimulation of the Nucleus Accumbens and Its Usefulness in Severe Opioid Addiction, Molecular Psychiatry                                                                                   Will There Ever Be a Drug With No or Negligible Side Effects? Evidence from Neuroscience, Neuroethics                   Promises, Promises for Neuroscience and Law, Current Biology    Stem Cells and Religion, Stem Cells Translational Medicine

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