PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

External brain stimulation goes deep, Nature News   Neuroscience hasn’t been weaponized – it’s been a tool of war from the start, The Conversation A Dose of a Hallucinogen From a ‘Magic Mushroom,’ and Then Lasting Peace, NY Times If Animals Have Rights, Should Robots? The New Yorker This scientific quest to find “missing” memories is changing the way we think about the brain, Vox Zap! Magnet Study Offers Fresh Insights Into How Memory Works, NPR Shots Blog Do These Genes Make Me Lonely? Inside Higher Ed AI Songsmith Cranks Out Surprisingly Catchy Tunes, MIT Technology Review Experimental treatments aim to prevent brain damage in babies, Nature News "American Horror Story" in Real Life: Understanding Racialized Views of Mental Illness and Stigma, The Neuroethics Blog AI learns to predict the future by watching 2 million videos, New Scientist Failed Alzheimer’s trial does not kill leading theory of disease, Nature News We may be able to tap into our memories from infancy, New Scientist Super-Recognizers Lurk among Us, Scientific American Head Transplant Patient Will Use Virtual Reality to Smooth Transition to New Body, Smithsonian Magazine Brain stimulation guides people through an invisible maze, New Scientist   Fully Implanted Brain–Computer Interface in a Locked-In Patient with ALS, New England Journal of Medicine Increased Sleep Depth in Developing Neural Networks: New Insights from Sleep Restriction in Children, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Reward, salience, and attentional networks are activated by religious experience in devout Mormons, Social Neuroscience Impressions Based on a Portrait Predict, 1-Month Later, Impressions Following a Live Interaction, Social Psychology & Personality Science Predicting “When” in Discourse Engages the Human Dorsal Auditory Stream: An fMRI Study Using Naturalistic Stories, The Journal of Neuroscience The slippery slope of dishonesty, Nature Neuroscience

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