PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Americans Wary of Using Chip Implants to Boost Brain Power for the Healthy, Pew Research Center    Google Builds a Robotic Hive-Mind Kindergarten, MIT Technology Review The Strange, Rare Medical Condition that Leads People to Insist They Don’t Actually Exist, Quartz Brain Game Claims Fail A Big Scientific Test, NPR: Shots This Scientist Is Trying To Unravel What Sugar Does To The Brain, NPR: The Salt Can Electricity Stimulate Your Brain To Work Faster? Discover Magazine Guilty or Not Guilty: Policy Considerations for Using Neuroimaging as Evidence in Courts, The Neuroethics Blog The Stain of the Spotless Mind: Policy Recommendations for Memory Erasure, The Neuroethics Blog Doll Therapy May Help Calm People With Dementia, But It Has Critics, NPR: Shots Embedded Beings: How We Blended Our Minds with Our Devices, Aeon Neuroimaging in Predicting and Detecting Neurodegenerative Diseases and Mental Disorders, The Neuroethics Blog   Neurolegislation: How U.S. Legislators are Using Brain Science, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology Spermidine Suppresses Age-Associated Memory Impairment by Preventing Adverse Increase of Presynaptic Active Zone Size and Release, PLoS Biology

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