PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

The Real Reason Some People Become Addicted to Drugs, The Conversation   My Sudden Synaesthesia: How I Went Blind and Started Hearing Colours, Mosaic Science Scientists Somehow Just Discovered a New System of Vessels in Our Brains, The Atlantic We Almost Gave Up On Building Artificial Brains, Discover Magazine Brains, 3:AM Magazine Who Is Rachael? Blade Runner and Personal Identity, Iai News Blade Runner’s Chillingly Prescient Vision of the Future, The Conversation Does Modern Neuroscience Really Help Us Understand Behavior?, Massive The Neuroethics Blog Series on Black Mirror: San Junipero, The Neuroethics Blog Toward an Imagination Science, Scientific American Little-Known Drug Keeps Climbers’ Minds Sharp at High Altitude, New Scientist How to Dump Someone the Humane Way, The Washington Post Acupuncture Works by ‘Re-Wiring’ the Brain, Evidence Suggests, Discover Magazine “I’d Choose Friends by the Flavor of Their Names”: The Rare Trait That Lets People Taste Sounds, Quartz   Inside the Moonshot Effort to Finally Figure Out the Brain, MIT Technology Review   Short Term Changes in the Proteome of Human Cerebral Organoids Induced by 5-MeO-DMT, Scientific Reports The Dopaminergic Reward System Underpins Gender Differences in Social Preferences, Nature Human Behavior Distal Axotomy Enhances Retrograde Presynaptic Excitability onto Injured Pyramidal Neurons via Trans-Synaptic Signaling, Nature Communications Disruption and Rescue of Interareal Theta Phase Coupling and Adaptive Behavior, PNAS Bilateral extracephalic transcranial direct current stimulation improves endurance performance in healthy individuals, Brain Stimulation

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