PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): A Brazil Woman’s Plastic Surgery Turned Her into a Kleptomaniac, Quartz In The Popular Press: Monkeys Drive Wheelchairs Using Only Their Thoughts, Science Daily The Surprising Ways the Body Works with the Brain to Shape Our Sense of Self, Quartz Brain Power, Nature Magazine The Incredible Power of Ignoring Everything, The Washington Post Neurostimulation: Bright Sparks, Nature Magazine Man Moves Individual Fingers on Prosthetic Arm Using Only His Thoughts, Johns Hopkins Hub No, Scientists Have Not Created a Matrix-Like Interface that Instantly Uploads Data to Your Brain, Gizmodo The Art that Shows What Goes on Deep in the Human Brain, BBC News The Important Psychological Benefit of Believing in Free Will, Quartz A Neurologist Thinks Ted Cruz’s Face Makes it Impossible to Vote for Him, Quartz Learning a New Sport May Be Good for the Brain, New York Times   €1m Brain Prize Awarded to Three British Neuroscientists, Wellcome Trust Blog Sitting Here in My Safe European Home: How Neuroscientific Research Can Help Shape EU Policy During the Syrian Refugee Crisis, Neuroethics Blog Injectable Brain Implants Talk to Single Neurons, Scientific American Fossilized Nervous System is Oldest, Most Detailed Ever Found, Discover Magazine Neuroscience Says These Five Rituals Will Help Your Brain Stay in Peak Condition, Quartz Cognitive Health, Nature Magazine Perspective: Time to Expand the Mind, Nature Magazine Could You Hack Your Brain To Get More Motivated?, NPR Wiring the Altruistic Brain, Science Magazine The Brain’s Functional Network Architecture Reveals Human Motives, Science Magazine In the Academic Literature: Disrupted Intrinsic Connectivity among Default, Dorsal Attention, and Frontoparietal Control Networks in Individuals with Chronic Traumatic Brain Injury, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society Translational Control by Eif2α Phosphorylation Regulates Vulnerability to the Synaptic and Behavioral Effects of Cocaine, eLife Dopamine Regulates Aversive Contextual Learning and Associated In Vivo Synaptic Plasticity in the Hippocampus, Cell Reports Age-Related Changes in Amygdala–Frontal Connectivity During Emotional Face Processing from Childhood into Young Adulthood, Human Brain Mapping Anodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Boosts Synaptic Plasticity and Memory in Mice via Epigenetic Regulation of Bdnf Expression, Scientific Reports

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