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This is your brain on architecture City Lab   Why people have out-of-body experiences, The Atlantic Social-media messages are becoming more complex, and nobody knows why, MIT Technology Review Neuroscience offers insights into the opioid epidemic, Bloomberg View CTE found in 99% of studied brains from deceased NFL players, CNN The algorithm that makes preschoolers obsessed with YouTube, The Atlantic Mice show signs of mental disorder after brains injected with cells from schizophrenic humans, STAT Indian musician plays guitar as doctors perform brain surgery, Reuters  Grounding ethics from below: CRISPR-cas9 and genetic modification, The Neuroethics Blog  The emerging science of computational psychiatry, MIT Technology Review Here’s a clever demonstration of how we simulate the mental experiences of story characters, The British Psychological Society Research Digest  At Johns Hopkins, clergy try mind-altering drugs for scientific research, The Washington Post Uber, but for happiness, The Atlantic   Clinicopathological evaluation of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in players of American football, JAMA   Neuromorphic computing with nanoscale spintronic oscillators, Nature Arid1b haploinsufficient mice reveal neuropsychiatric phenotypes and reversible causes of growth impairment, eLife Improved memory for information learnt before alcohol use in social drinkers tested in a naturalistic setting, Nature Scientific Reports Is overimitation a uniquely human phenomenon? Insights from human children as compared to bonobos, Child Development

Subscribe to our mailing list The Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS) is a collaborative effort of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Johns Hopkins Brain Sciences Institute . The goal of PEBS is to ensure that research in brain science proceeds with an informed understanding of ethical issues, and that philosophical and empirical analyses of the advances in brain research proceed with an informed understanding of the science.

 

IRCM Postdoc Position

Details here, including the following description:

OPPORTUNITY
We are seeking a postdoctoral fellow, or possibly a very strong
graduate student, to lead empirical and conceptual research on free
will which includes the examination of people’s beliefs in free will
as well as the implications of such beliefs (e.g., for stigmatization,
health-related behaviour, or moral decisions). The fellow will work
at the Neuroethics research unit (www.ircm.qc.ca/neuroethics/en/)
in partnership with the University of Cologne.

Our project aims to contribute, from a pragmatist standpoint, to a
better understanding of beliefs in free will in the context of ethics
theory and practice. This entails bridging different disciplinary
approaches using conceptual, quantitative, and qualitative methods.
Outcomes of this project would include, among others, a review
paper detailing the state of knowledge about belief in free will
and its implications and empirical papers based on experimental
quantitative research. This position is funded by a grant from the
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. This
is a 12-month position with possible renewal.

PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Doodling is scientifically proven to boost brain activity Quartz   This Is Your Brain on Architecture City Lab An Ancient Cure for Alzheimer’s? The New York Times  Pain leads to empathy and self-preservation: should we make robots ‘feel’ it? Aeon    Brain Activity during Sleep Can Predict When Someone Is Dreaming Scientific American Is Neuroscience Under powered? “Power Failure” Revisited Discover Being Generous Really Does Make You Happier Time  Please Prove You’re Not a Robot The New York Times Why do human beings speak so many languages? The Conversation Artificial Intelligence Experts Respond to Elon Musk’s Dire Warning for U.S. Governors Discover Stressful experiences can age brain 'by years', Alzheimer's experts hear The Guardian When Is Speech Violence? The New York Times How Twitter Fuels Anxiety The Atlantic Revising the Ethical Framework for Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant Depression The Neuroethics Blog Why Are Dogs So Friendly? The Answer May Be in 2 Genes The New York Times Psychopaths have feelings: can they learn how to use them? Aeon    Integrating Models of Neurologic and Psychiatric Disease JAMA Neurology Temporal dynamics of neurogenomic plasticity in response to social interactions in male threespined sticklebacks Plos Genetics The right way to kiss: directionality bias in head-turning during kissing Nature Infant Gut Microbiome Associated with Cognitive Development Biological Psychiatry  Bilingual Baby: Foreign Language Intervention in Madrid's Infant Education Centers Mind, Brain, an Education Empowerment As Replacement for the Three Laws of Robotics Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Subscribe to our mailing list The Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS) is a collaborative effort of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Johns Hopkins Brain Sciences Institute . The goal of PEBS is to ensure that research in brain science proceeds with an informed understanding of ethical issues, and that philosophical and empirical analyses of the advances in brain research proceed with an informed understanding of the science.

 

PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Mental Privacy in the Age of Big Data, Neuroethics Blog   How poverty affects the brain, Nature Religious leaders get high on magic mushrooms ingredient – for science, The Guardian  Political Neuroscience: “Growth Mindsets” and Disability, Discover  Diagnostic dilemmas: When potentially transient preexisting diagnoses confer chronic harm, The Neuroethics Blog The weird power of the placebo effect, explained, Vox U.S. to Fund Advanced Brain-Computer Interfaces, MIT Technology Review Study: Lumosity brain-training didn't boost thinking skills, United Press International Fight or flight? How our brain decides our response to danger, The Guardian  People are hacking antidepressant doses to avoid withdrawal, New Scientist Doodling is scientifically proven to boost brain activity, Quartz Why Some Mice Seem to Make Bad Parents, Scientific American When is stress good for you? Aeon If You’ve Ever Seen a Ghost, Science May Explain Why, Mental Floss                                   The “Electrosensitive” Brain, Discovery Visit the Center for Neuroscience & Society to learn, develop and carry out your research!​ Center for Neuroscience & Society, University of Pennsylvania   Memory-enhancing drug reverses effects of traumatic brain injury in mice, Science The Encephalophone: A Novel Musical Biofeedback Device using Conscious Control of Electroencephalogram (EEG), Frontiers A neural link between generosity and happiness, Nature Communications Complementary contributions of basolateral amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex to value learning under uncertainty, eLife High-Speed and Scalable Whole-Brain Imaging in Rodents and Primates, Science Direct No Effect of Commercial Cognitive Training on Neural Activity During Decision-Making, The Journal of Neuroscience

Subscribe to our mailing list The Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS) is a collaborative effort of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Johns Hopkins Brain Sciences Institute . The goal of PEBS is to ensure that research in brain science proceeds with an informed understanding of ethical issues, and that philosophical and empirical analyses of the advances in brain research proceed with an informed understanding of the science.