PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): There’s No Such Thing as Free Will, The Atlantic In The Popular Press: My Brain Made Me Do It: Will Neuroscience Change the Way We Punish Criminals? The Conversation US Scientists Can Figure Out What Kind of Movie You're Watching by Studying Your Breath, Quartz I Was Really Bad at Sports in High School. This New Study Helps Me Understand Why, Vox News Memory, Obesity, and Free Will, The Neuroethics Blog Brain Scans Probe the Limits of Consciousness, Discover Magazine Tasty and Easy to Take, a New ADHD Drug Alarms Some Psychiatrists, STAT A Guy Trained a Machine to 'Watch' Blade Runner. Then Things Got Seriously Sci-Fi, Vox Culture Do Big Brains Make for Smart Animals?, New York Times Is Intelligence Hereditary?, Scientific American Overcoming the Shame of a Suicide Attempt, New York Times Teenage Brain on Social Media, Science Daily The Brain’s Janitor, Inside Higher Ed Yoga May Be Good for the Brain, New York Times In the Academic Literature: Concomitant Caffeine Increases Binge Consumption of Ethanol in Adolescent and Adult Mice, But Produces Additive Motor Stimulation Only in Adolescent Animals, Alcoholism - Clinical & Experimental Research Critical Role for the Mediodorsal Thalamus in Permitting Rapid Reward-Guided Updating in Stochastic Reward Environments, eLife Disrupted Habenula Function in Major Depression, Molecular Psychiatry Ventral Pallidum Neurons Encode Incentive Value and Promote Cue-Elicited Instrumental Actions, Neuron Neuronal Hyperactivity Disturbs ATP Microgradients, Impairs Microglial Motility, and Reduces Phagocytic Receptor Expression Triggering Apoptosis/Microglial Phagocytosis Uncoupling, PLOS Biology

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