PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Scientists just found another worrying link between sugar and depression, Quartz    Watching children learn how to lie The Conversation Model hallucinations Aeon How Smartphones Are Making Kids Unhappy NPR The First-Ever Brain-Controlled VR Game Gives You the Power of Telekinesis The Download Why the human brain can do the maths The Guardian Learning to Learn: You, Too, Can Rewire Your Brain New York Times Can This Drug Cure Performance Anxiety? The Atlantic Researchers are studying psychopathic chimps to better understand the human variety BPS Research Digest First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News MIT Technology Review Uncovering the Secrets of a Trustworthy Face Scientific American The Neuroethics Blog Series on Black Mirror: The Entire History of You The Neuroethics Blog Lag In Brain Donation Hampers Understanding Of Dementia In Blacks Kaiser Health News  Scientists found more evidence that we can learn during sleep Quartz “Alexa, Understand Me” MIT technology Review Video Games Can Either Grow Or Shrink Part of Your Brain, Depending on How You Play, Quartz How Machine Learning Is Helping Neuroscientists Crack Our Neural Code MIT Technology Review   Female Brains Are More Active? Discover Possible Anti-Aging Brain Therapy Shows Promise in Mice Scientific American What Self-Talk Reveals about the Brain Scientific American The evolution of cognitive mechanisms in response to cultural innovations PNAS Fronto-parietal structural connectivity in childhood predicts development of functional connectivity and reasoning ability: a large-scale longitudinal investigation The Journal of Neuroscience Functional MRI neurofeedback training on connectivity between two regions induces long-lasting changes in intrinsic functional network Frontiers Gender-Based Cerebral Perfusion Differences in 46,034 Functional Neuroimaging Scans IOS Press How to map the circuits that define us Nature  The complete connectome of a learning and memory centre in an insect brain Nature

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