PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): How Meditation Changes the Brain and Body, NY Times Well Blog In The Popular Press: A Brazil Woman’s Plastic Surgery Turned Her into a Kleptomaniac, Quartz Modern Milgram Experiment Sheds Light on Power of Authority, Nature News The Mind’s Biology, The Washington Post Why is Breaking Bad Habits Hard? Our Brains Are Biased by Past Rewards, Johns Hopkins HUB Watch: A Cyborg Rat Could Point the Way to a Post-AI Future, Quartz How Sleep Can Heal Our Brains, PBS A Plea for “Slow Science” and Philosophical Patience in Neuroethics, The Neuroethics Blog What Happens to Your Brain When You’re Pregnant – Clumsiness, Food Cravings, and Moodiness?, The Conversation The Myth of “Mind-Altering Parasite” Toxoplasma Gondii?, Discover Magazine This Exhilarating Virtual Reality Film is Designed to Make Viewers More Empathetic, Quartz I Controlled an RC Car with My Mind and it Was Amazing, Gizmodo Neuroscientists Have Found a Basis for the ‘I Was Just Following Orders’ Excuse, Quartz Scientists Use Light to Alter Memories of Cokehead Mice, Gizmodo Stanford Neurologist Ponders Her Interest in the Human Brain, Stanford Medicine's Scope In the Academic Literature: Third-Party Punishment as a Costly Signal of Trustworthiness, Nature Letter Lost in Transportation: Information Measures and Cognitive Limits in Multilayer Navigation, Science Advances Coherence between Rat Sensorimotor System and Hippocampus is Enhanced during Tactile Discrimination, PLOS Biology Coercion Changes the Sense of Agency in the Human Brain, Current Biology Neuroethics: The Pursuit of Transforming Medical Ethics in Scientific Ethics, Biological Research Illuminating Next-Generation Brain Therapies, Nature Neuroscience An Attentional Bias for LEGO® People Using a Change Detection Task: Are LEGO® People Animate?, Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology

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