PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Experts Excited by Brain 'Wonder-Drug', BBC News   Science Has Outgrown the Human Mind and its Limited Capacities, Aeon Chemo Scrambled My Brain, NPR Shots Blog Aaron Hernandez’s Brain to Be Released for CTE Study, NBC News Technology Could Allow Facebook Users to Type 100 Words Per Minute—Using Only Their Thoughts, Hopkins University Bulletin New Research Suggests Your Ability to Forgive—or Not—is Actually Biological, Quartz In a Neuro-Techno Future, Human Rights Laws Will Need to be Revisited, Science Daily The Brain Can Distinguish between Real and Fake Laughter, Scientific American People are Scared of Artificial Intelligence for All the Wrong Reasons, Quartz Raising Good Robots, Aeon Sugary Drinks Tied to Accelerated Brain Aging, The New York Times The Simple Reason Exercise Enhances Your Brain, Time Magazine 'Minibrains' In a Dish Shed a Little Light on Autism and Epilepsy, NPR Shots Facebook Launches "Moon Shot" Effort to Decode Speech Direct from the Brain, Scientific American   Threats to Neurosurgical Patients Posed by the Personal Identity Debate, Neuroethics Direct Brain Stimulation Modulates Encoding States and Memory Performance in Humans, Current Biology Dopamine Transients are Sufficient and Necessary for Acquisition of Model-Based Associations, Nature Neuroscience Neural Mechanisms for Integrating Consecutive and Interleaved Natural Events, Human Brain Mapping Deep Creations: Intellectual Property and the Automata, Frontiers in Digital Humanities Sequence Learning Modulates Neural Responses and Oscillatory Coupling in Human and Monkey Auditory Cortex, PLOS Biology

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