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

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