PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): My Brain Made Me Do It: Will Neuroscience Change the Way We Punish Criminals? The Conversation US In The Popular Press: Smartphones Won’t Make Your Kids Dumb. We Think., Mosaic Why People Try Repulsive Things, Scientific American Why it's Wrong to Call Addiction a Disease, The Guardian We Behave a Lot More Badly Than We Remember, The Conversation Study Reveals What Happens in the Brains of Men and Women When They Cooperate, SCOPE, Stanford Medicine Creating a Window Into a Fly’s Brain, New York Times Stem Cell Brain Injections Let People Walk Again After Stroke, New Scientist Genetic Test Predicts Your Success in Life, But Not Happiness, New Scientist Neuroethics Activities under the NIH BRAIN Initiative, NIH Request for Information (RFI): Guidance for Opportunities in Neuroethics (NIH BRAIN Initiative), NIH A Neuroscientist Tackles 'Why Diets Make Us Fat', NPR Scientists Believe the Natural Next Step in Our Evolution is to Become Cyborgs, Quartz A Life Inspired by an Unexpected Genius, Quanta Magazine Separating Science Fiction from Science Fact in Memory Research, Scientific American Long-Term Marijuana Use Changes Brain's Reward Circuit, Science Daily Species-Wide Gene Editing, Applauded and Feared, Gets a Push, New York Times In the Academic Literature: On Cuteness: Unlocking the Parental Brain and Beyond, Trends in Cognitive Sciences Correlation Detection as a General Mechanism for Multisensory Integration, Nature Communications Self-Perception Beyond the Body: the Role of Past Agency, Psychological Research An E3-Ligase-Based Method for Ablating Inhibitory Synapses, Nature Methods Discrimination of Human Faces by Archerfish (Toxotes Chatareus), Scientific Reports

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