PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): A Neuroscientist Says There’s a Powerful Benefit to Exercise that is Rarely Discussed, Quartz In The Popular Press: Suicide of the Ceasefire Babies, Mosaic The US Military Wants a Chip to Translate Your Brain Activity into Binary Code, Gizmodo A Neural Response to “Trigger” Stimuli in PTSD?, Discover Magazine Head Transplant Carried Out on Monkey, Claims Maverick Surgeon, New Scientist Childhood Poverty Linked to Brain Changes Related to Depression, Medical News Today Dissolvable Devices Keep Tabs on the Brain, Discover Magazine Humans Aren’t the Only Species That Trusts, Quartz GoPro for Mouse Brains Records Neural Circuits in Real Time, Gizmodo Bird Brains: Smarter Than We Thought, New York Times Integration without Reduction: What the Philosophy of Empathy Can Learn From Mirror Neurons, The Neuroethics Blog Call for Proposals, Center for Cognition and Neuroethics F.T.C.’s Lumosity Penalty Doesn’t End Brain Training Debate, New York Times For Teenagers, Adult-Sized Opioid Addiction Treatment Doesn't Fit, NPR The Brain Science behind Britain’s New Parenting Classes, The Washington Post In the Academic Literature: Why I Tense Up When You Watch Me: Inferior Parietal Cortex Mediates an Audience’s Influence on Motor Performance, Scientific Reports COMT and OPRM1 Genotype Associations with Daily Knee Pain Variability and Activity Induced Pain, Scandinavian Journal of Pain Acceptance in Theory but not Practice – Chinese Medical Providers’ Perception of Brain Death, Neuroethics Cocaine Elicits Autophagic Cytotoxicity via a Nitric Oxide-GAPDH Signaling Cascade, PNAS The Primate Amygdala in Social Perception – Insights from Electrophysiological Recordings and Stimulation, Trends in Neurosciences Nanoconnectomic upper bound on the variability of synaptic plasticity, eLIFE

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