PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): When an Autism Diagnosis Comes in Adulthood, NPR In The Popular Press: A Q&A with the Scientist Who Helped Create the "Cortex in a Dish" System, Scientific American Mental Health: There’s an App for That, Nature News Why Make-Believe Play is an Important Part of Childhood Development, The Conversation Flagship Brain Project Releases Neuro-Computing Tools, Nature News This is What Happens to Your Brain on No Sleep, Time Magazine Erasing Memories, The Neuroethics Blog How We See Words, The Guardian What is Brain Plasticity and Why is it so Important?, The Conversation SJ Watson: Art, Identity and the World's Most Famous Amnesiac, The Guardian Can We Trust Robots to Make Moral Decisions?, Quartz A $2 Billion Chip to Accelerate Artificial Intelligence, MIT Technology Review Invading the Brain to Understand, Repair Cognition, Science Daily How Your Brain Picks the Right Word: The 'Cat' and 'Dog' Battle, BBC News Neuroscience: Listening in on Yourself, Nature Magazine Zapping Your Skull Could Alleviate Virtual-Reality Motion Sickness, MIT Technology Blog Metaphors That Make Us Feel Clean and Dirty, Literally, Wall Street Journal The Problem with Perfect Posture, Scientific American Science Can Help Explain Why Too Little Sleep Makes Us so Emotional, Quartz The Rogue Immune Cells That Wreck the Brain, MIT Technology Review In the Academic Literature: Stimulation of the Ventral Tegmental Area Increased Nociceptive Thresholds and Decreased Spinal Dorsal Horn Neuronal Activity in Rat, Experimental Brain Research Computations of Uncertainty Mediate Acute Stress Responses in Humans, Nature Communications Behavioral Contagion During Learning about Another Agent’s Risk-Preferences Acts on the Neural Representation of Decision-Risk, PNAS What Does Recent Neuroscience Tell Us About Criminal Responsibility?, Journal of Law and the Biosciences Neuroscience Cannot Answer These Questions: A Response to G. And R. Murrow's Essay Hypothesizing a Link Between Dehumanization, Human Rights Abuses and Public Policy, Journal of Law and the Biosciences Inherited Proclivity: When Should Neurogenetics Mitigate Moral Culpability for Purposes of Sentencing?, Journal of Law and the Biosciences

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