PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): News Feature: The Neuroscience of Poverty, PNAS In The Popular Press: Responsibility: Revis(ion)ing Brains Via Cognitive Enhancement, The Neuroethics Blog My 'Smart Drugs' Nightmare, BBC News The Terrible Beauty of Brain Surgery, New York Times Cortisol Levels in Children's Hair May Reveal Future Mental Health Risk, The Guardian We're Thinking About ADHD All Wrong, Says A Top Pediatrician, NPR A Simple Computer Test Shows the Limitations of Our Free Will, Gizmodo The Incredible Thing We Do During Conversations, The Atlantic Creative People’s Brains Really Do Work Differently, Quartz Lack Of Deep Sleep May Set The Stage for Alzheimer's, NPR A Virus Linked to Shrinking Newborns’ Brains is Spreading Rapidly Beyond Brazil, Quartz Researchers Find Lapses in Hospitals' Policies for Determining Brain Death, NPR Programs Expand Schizophrenic Patients’ Role in Their Own Care, New York Times Revolutionary Neuroscience Technique Slated for Human Clinical Trials, Scientific American Forgot Something Again? It's Probably Just Normal Aging, NPR   One Reason the ‘Learning Styles’ Myth Persists, New York Magazine Can Psychology Be an Empirical Science?, Discover Magazine Seeking the Gears of Our Inner Clock, New York Times Lumosity to Pay $2 Million to Settle FTC Deceptive Advertising Charges for Its “Brain Training” Program, Federal Trade Commission Is "Emotion Training" the Next Brain Training? Let's Hope Not, Gizmodo Neuroplasticity in Blindness: What It Tells Us about the Mechanisms Of Blindness, NIH - OBSSR Turns Out Monkey Bars and Kickball Might Be Good for the Brain, NPR In the Academic Literature: Prefrontal Cortical Regulation of Brainwide Circuit Dynamics and Reward-Related Behavior, Science Magazine In Vivo Genome Editing Improves Muscle Function in a Mouse Model of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Science Magazine Whole-Agent Selectivity within the Macaque Face-Processing System, PNAS Discontinuity of Cortical Gradients Reflects Sensory Impairment, PNAS Surprise! Dopamine Signals Mix Action, Value and Error, Nature

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