PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Treating Depression is Guesswork. Psychiatrists Are Beginning to Crack the Code, Vox   Melding Mind and Machine: How Close Are We?, The Conversation A 'Hot Zone' In The Brain May Reveal When, And Even What, We Dream, NPR The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI, MIT Technology Review What Is It Like to Regain a Sense of Touch, Only to Lose It Again?, The Atlantic The Landscape of Neuroscience 2006 – 2015, Discover Magazine VR and PTSD: Healing from Trauma by Confronting Fears in Virtual Reality Environments, The Neuroethics Blog Dogs Don’t Process Language With Their Left Brains, After All, Discover Magazine Birth Control Causes Depression? Not So Fast, The Incidental Economist People on Ecstasy Feel Loved-Up Because MDMA Boosts Trust, New Scientist “Love Drugs” Will Soon Be a Reality. but Should We Take Them?, Quartz Can a Difficult Childhood Enhance Cognition?, The Atlantic How A.I. Will Redefine Human Intelligence, The Atlantic Moving Beyond “the Brain’s GPS” to Understand Navigation, SCOPE Blog, Stanford University Maximizers vs. Minimizers: The Personality Trait that May Guide Your Medical Decisions – and Costs, The Conversation Philosophers of Knowledge, Your Time Has Come, New Scientist   Increasing Honesty in Humans with Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, PNAS Optical Control of Pain in Vivo With a Photoactive mGlu5 Receptor Negative Allosteric Modulator, eLife Neuroanatomical Correlates of Forgiving Unintentional Harms, Scientific Reports Abnormal Wiring of CCK+ Basket Cells Disrupts Spatial Information Coding, Nature Neuroscience

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