PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): His Brain, Her Brain, Science In The Popular Press: A Better Way to Screen Airport Passengers, With Psychology, Discover Brains of People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Offer Clues About Disorder, New York Times Well Blog Why Have Our Brains Started to Shrink?, Scientific American The Secret to a Successful Thanksgiving: Free Will, Scientific American Can Brain Science Be Dangerous?, New York Times Brain's Dementia Weak Spot Identified, BBC News New Gene Studies Suggest There Are Hundreds of Kinds of Autism, Wired A Mouse Experiment Suggests How We Might One Day Sleep Off Toxic Memories, Scientific American Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy Exists, and We’re Terrible at Dealing With It, The Incidental Economist Blind From Birth, But Able To Use Sound To 'See' Faces, NPR Shots Blog Prosopagnosia – a Common Problem, Commonly Overlooked, Wellcome Trust Blog Illustration From 1881 Resolves Century-Old Brain Controversy, SCOPE How Does the Brain React to Virtual Reality? Completely Different Pattern of Activity in Brain, ScienceDaily Babies Remember Nothing but a Good Time, Study Says, ScienceDaily Man’s Headaches Due to Tapeworm Living in his Brain for Four Years, The Guardian Drug and Alcohol Abuse Among Physicians: How Concerned Should We Be?, The Neuroethics Blog US Regulators Move on Thought-Controlled Prosthetics, Nature News In the Academic Literature: Reversal of Cortical Information Flow During Visual Imagery as Compared to Visual Perception, NeuroImage Mind Matters: Placebo Enhances Reward Learning in Parkinson's Disease, Nature Neuroscience Grammatical Analysis as a Distributed Neurobiological Function, Human Brain Mapping                Follow the Liar: The Effects of Adult Lies on Children's Honesty, Developmental Science Imaging Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction in Football Players, JAMA Neurology Selective Conversion of Fibroblasts into Peripheral Sensory Neurons, Nature Neuroscience NOS1AP, A Protein Implicated in Schizophrenia, Controls Radial Migration of Cortical Neurons, Biological Psychiatry Cerebellar Plasticity and Motor Learning Deficits in a Copy-Number Variation Mouse Model of Autism, Nature Communications

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