PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): If You Want to Meet That Deadline, Play a Trick on Your Mind, New York Times In The Popular Press: The Woman Who Sees Like A Bat, Nature Audio I Tried A Brain-Altering Wearable That Allows Users To Change Their Moods On Demand, Quartz Subliminal Perception: Just How Fast Is The Brain?, Discover Monkeys Seem To Recognize Their Reflections, Nature News Ethical Issues in Neurosurgery: A Special Issue of Virtual Mentor, The Neuroethics Blog Blown-Up Brains Reveal Nanoscale Details, Nature News The Tragic History of Surgery for Schizophrenia, Discover Can Pigs Empathize?, Scientific American Why Pygmies Aren't Scared By The 'Psycho' Theme, NPR Goats and Soda Blog Invisibilia: NPR's Fascinating New Podcast About The Mysteries Inside Our Heads, Vox A Short History of Mental Illness In Art, The Guardian Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, But Science Can Help, NPR Shots Blog Bored ... And Brilliant? A Challenge To Disconnect From Your Phone, NPR All Tech Considered Blog Neuroprosthetics For Paralysis: Biocompatible, Flexible Implant Slips Into The Spinal Cord, ScienceDaily What’s The Truth About “TruBrain”?, Discover How The Sense of Taste Has Shaped Who We Are, Scientific American What You 'Like' On Facebook Gives Away Your Personality, NewScientist You Can Make People Trust You With This Scent, Study Says, TIME   In the Academic Literature: Free Will Skepticism: Current Arguments and Future Directions, Neuroethics Tryptophan Promotes Charitable Donating, Frontiers in Psychology The Effect Of Audio Therapy To Treat Postoperative Pain In Children Undergoing Major Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Pediatric Surgery                New Human-Specific Brain Landmark: The Depth Asymmetry Of Superior Temporal Sulcus, PNAS Computer-Based Personality Judgments Are More Accurate Than Those Made By Humans, PNAS Medial Prefrontal Cortex Reacts To Unfairness If This Damages The Self: A tDCS Study, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience The Extended iSelf: The Impact of iPhone Separation on Cognition, Emotion, and Physiology, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication You Turn Me Cold: Evidence for Temperature Contagion, PLoS One Long Working Hours And Alcohol Use: Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis Of Published Studies And Unpublished Individual Participant Data, BMJ   Events/Calls For Abstracts: Call for Abstracts (Deadline - January 20, 2015): The Work of Cognition and Neuroethics in Science Fiction. Center for Cognition and Neuroethics, University of Michigan-Flint Call for Abstracts (Deadline - March 31, 2015): Neuroetherapeutics and Psychosurgery Conference. Center for Cognition and Neuroethics, University of Michigan-Flint Summer Seminar/CFP (Deadline March 1, 2015): Mirror Neurons, Empathy and Autism. Center for Cognition and Neuroethics, University of Michigan-Flint

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