PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

New Alzheimer's Test Can Predict Age When Disease Will Appear, The Guardian    This Paralyzed Man Is Using a Neuroprosthetic to Move His Arm for the First Time in Years, MIT Technology Review Childhood Exposure To Lead Can Blunt IQ For Decades, Study Suggests, NPR: Shots Should a human-pig chimera be treated as a person? Quartz What Gave Some Primates Bigger Brains? A Fruit-Filled Diet, NPR: The Salt A New Direction for Artificial Intelligence? MIT Technology Review Why dissecting the brain only gives us half its story, The Guardian Keep talking to yourself—it’s doing wonders for your brain, Quartz Yuval Harari on why humans won’t dominate Earth in 300 years, Vox  Gut check: Researchers develop measures to capture moral judgments and empathy, The Conversation Putting bigger brains down to our social nature is half baked, New Scientist  Elon Musk Seen Targeting Human-Computer Link In New Venture, NPR: The Two-Way Elon Musk Is Wrong to Think He Can Save the World By Boosting Our Brains, Gizmodo Why Addiction Narratives Matter, The Neuroethics Blog Being sleep deprived at work is as bad as being drunk, Quartz   Remote Navigation of Turtle by Controlling Instinct Behavior via Human Brain-computer Interface, Journal of Bionic Engineering Selective Entrainment of Theta Oscillations in the Dorsal Stream Causally Enhances Auditory Working Memory Performance, Neuron Neuroscience Needs Behavior: Correcting a Reductionist Bias, Neuron Predicting the Knowledge-Recklessness Distinction in the Human Brain, Proceedings of the National Academies of Science  Delta-frequency stimulation of cerebellar projections can compensate for schizophrenia-related medial frontal dysfunction, Molecular Psychology  Hippocampal awake replay in fear memory retrieval, Nature Neuroscience

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