PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): Brain Training Doesn’t Make You Smarter, Scientific American In The Popular Press: Special K, a Hallucinogen, Raises Hopes and Concerns as a Treatment for Depression, New York Times A Crowd Of Scientists Finds A Better Way To Predict Seizures, NPR Shots Blog Is Personality Unique to Humans?, BBC News Why Your Brain Loves Procrastination, Vox Voices in the Dark: An Audio Story, Mosaic What the Science of Memory Can Tell Us About the UVA Rape Story, Vox This Is How Twitter Uncovers Mental Illness Trends, Tech Times Social Pain, Physical Pain: Different After All?, Discover vOICe: The Soundscape Headsets That Allow Blind People To ‘See’ The World, The Guardian Toward Cracking the Code of How Brains Work, Machines Like Us This Artificial Skin Can Feel Pressure, Heat and Dampness, Gizmodo An Overview of Neurointerventions and the Law: Regulating Human Capacity (Lawyers, Neuroscientists, Philosophers, and Psychologists in Conversation), Neuroethics Blog Personality Affects Maths-Enhancing Brain-Zap Method, NewScientist A Mood-Changing Headset, Thync, That Uses Electrodes to Perk You Up, The Guardian Too Simple Minds: Debunking Myths About the Human Brain, NewScientist Artificial Intelligence is Here—and it’s Nothing to Fear (Yet), Quartz In the Academic Literature: Dopamine Receptors Differentially Enhance Rule Coding in Primate Prefrontal Cortex Neurons, Neuron Place Cells in the Hippocampus: Eleven Maps for Eleven Rooms, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Development and Preliminary Evaluation of a Novel Low Cost VR-Based Upper Limb Stroke Rehabilitation Platform Using Wii Technology, Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology                Hebbian and Neuromodulatory Mechanisms Interact to Trigger Associative Memory Formation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Submillisecond Unmasked Subliminal Visual Stimuli Evoke Electrical Brain Responses, Human Brain Mapping Smoking and the Developing Brain: Altered White Matter Microstructure in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Healthy Controls, Human Brain Mapping

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