PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

How Network Neuroscience Is Creating a New Era of Mind Control, MIT Technology Review   Alcoholism Research: A Virus Could Manipulate Neurons to Reduce the Desire to Drink, The Conversation Paralysed People Inhabit Distant Robot Bodies with Thought Alone, New Scientist Electrotherapy: Shock Value, Nature Magazine Mice Fall for Rubber Hand Illusion Just Like Us, New Scientist Teen Wakes Up From Coma Speaking Fluent Spanish: ‘It Was Weird’, Time Magazine AI Can Learn from Data Without Ever Having Access to it, Quartz People with Autism May See Motion Faster, Scientific American Google’s Neural Networks Invent Their Own Encryption, New Scientist Zombethics 2016: (In)visible Disabilities and Troubling Normality, The Neuroethics Blog AI is Not Out to Get Us, Scientific American Who’s Accountable When An Algorithm Makes A Bad Decision?, FiveThirtyEight Can Mental Illness Be Prevented in the Womb?, NPR A Gene That Could Help Explain Why Lithium Stabilizes Mood, The Atlantic Why Our ‘Procrastinating’ Brains Still Outperform Computers, Discover Magazine Does Effect Size Matter for fMRI?, Discover Magazine How One Season of Football Affects a Child’s Brain, Time Magazine   The Brain Adapts to Dishonesty, Nature Neuroscience Universality in Human Cortical Folding in Health and Disease, PNAS Evidence for Superior Neurobiological and Behavioral Inhibitory Control Abilities in Non-Offending as Compared to Offending Pedophiles, Human Brain Mapping Automatic Speech Recognition from Neural Signals: A Focused Review, Frontiers in Neuroscience Structural Integrity between Executive Control and Reward Regions of the Brain Predicts Body Fat Percentage in Chronic Dieters, Journal Cognitive Neuroscience Chromosome Conformation Elucidates Regulatory Relationships in Developing Human brain, Nature Magazine

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