PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): Strong Legs Contribute to a Healthier Brain in Old Age, Study Finds, The Guardian In The Popular Press: Can You Think Yourself Into A Different Person?, Mosaic The Science Behind Why People Fear Refugees, Vox Judges Are Using Brain Science to Help Babies Caught in the Court System, Quartz Frontal Brain Wrinkle Linked to Hallucinations, BBC News Our Robotic Children: The Ethics of Creating Intelligent Life, MIT Technology Review A Genetic Map Hints at What Makes A Brain Human, NPR The Brain Has a Blind Spot for ‘Unknown Unknowns’, Discover Magazine Cultural Differences Determine When Kids Learn to Play Fair, Nature News Meta-Neuroscience: Studying the Brains of Neuroscientists, Discover Magazine Could Implantable LEDs Relieve Your Pain?, MIT Technology Review Better Sleep May Be the Key to Treating Depression, Anxiety and Schizophrenia, Quartz Discovery of Long-Sought Biological Compass Claimed, Nature News Experimenter Movie Takes Shock Tactics to New Level, BBC News The Machine-Vision Algorithm for Analyzing Children’s Drawings, MIT Technology Review The US Government is Working on Making Implantable Memory Chips so We Don’t Forget Anything Ever Again, Quartz New Brain Institute Plans to Refocus Third World’s Attention on Dementia as ‘Societal Issue’, Kaiser Health News The Neuroscience of Social Media: An Unofficial History, The Neurocritic Smart Drugs, WHYY Unsupervised, Mobile and Wireless Brain–Computer Interfaces on the Horizon, Scientific American A Moment That Changed Me – When I Stopped Hearing the Voices in My Head, The Guardian In the Academic Literature: Individual Differences in Premotor Brain Systems Underlie Behavioral Apathy, Cerebral Cortex Relaxed Genetic Control of Cortical Organization in Human Brains Compared with Chimpanzees, PNAS Optogenetic Stimulation of Neuronal Repair, Current Biology Auditory Sequence Processing Reveals Evolutionarily Conserved Regions of Frontal Cortex in Macaques and Humans, Nature Communications Electric Field Modulation of Semiconductor Quantum Dot Photoluminescence: Insights Into the Design of Robust Voltage-Sensitive Cellular Imaging Probes, NanoLetters

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