PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Get A Six Pack With Neuroscience: Modius, A Head-Worn Gadget That Helps You Burn Fat (Review), Forbes   Brain researchers in uproar over NIH clinical-trials policy, Nature News Are There Optical Communication Channels in Our Brains? MIT Technology Review Is There a "Female" Brain? Scientific American Computer knows how much pain you are in by studying your face, New Scientist The Neuroethics Blog Series on Black Mirror: White Bear, The Neuroethics Blog  Being Bored at Work Is Actually a Good Thing, Research Says, TIME: Money Nature videos help to calm inmates in solitary confinement, Nature News Don’t Trust Animal Characters to Teach Your Kids Morals, Discover: Inkfish It took these monkeys just 13 years to learn how to crack nuts, New Scientist The Link Between Animal Abuse and Murder, The Atlantic Seeing is believing (unfortunately): A project designed to study visually induced fear, SCOPE by Stanford Medicine Some blind people use bat-like echolocation, Discover: Seriously, Science? Stop pretending you really know what AI is and read this instead, Quartz  Visit the Center for Neuroscience & Society to learn, develop and carry out your research!​ Center for Neuroscience & Society, University of Pennsylvania   Neuroethics: Anticipating the future, Oxford University Press Short-term language switching training tunes the neural correlates of cognitive control in bilingual language production, Human Brain Mapping  Laughter as a Neurochemical Mechanism Aimed at Reinforcing Social Bonds: Integrating Evidence from Opioidergic Activity and Brain Stimulation, The Journal of Neuroscience A Kantian ethics approach to moral bioenhancement, Bioethics Neuroscience: From embryo mutation to adult degeneration, Nature

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