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New Study Reveals Why Some People Are More Creative Than Others, The Conversation   The new science of animal cognition is forcing countries to overhaul their laws, Quartz The tricks propagandists use to beat science, MIT Technology Review Cocktail of Brain Chemicals May Be a Key to What Makes Us Human, Scientific American Staying awake: the surprisingly effective way to treat depression, Mosaic People Struggling With Addiction Need Help. Does Forcing Them Into Treatment Work?, Slate Young Women Are Using A.D.H.D. Drugs in Greater Numbers, C.D.C. Reports, New York Times Nursing Home Re-Creates Communist East Germany For Dementia Patients, NPR When a mom feels depressed, her baby’s cells might feel it too, The Conversation Neuroethics Women to Watch, The Neuroethics Blog Science has a gambling problem, Nature Scientists say brain implant may be the key to beating addiction, NBC News The brain science that could help explain sexual harassment, Quartz   Predicting Public Corruption with Neural Networks: An Analysis of Spanish Provinces, Social Indicators Research The impact of using an upper-limb prosthesis on the perception of real and illusory weight differences, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Would you be willing to zap your child's brain? Public perspectives on parental responsibilities and the ethics of enhancing children with transcranial direct current stimulation, AJOB Empirical Bioethics Decreases in Psychological Well-Being Among American Adolescents After 2012 and Links to Screen Time During the Rise of Smartphone Technology, Emotion

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.

 

"Predicting Violent Behavior: What Can Neuroscience Add?"

Recently posted on SSRN:  "Predicting Violent Behavior: What Can Neuroscience Add?" 

PETER IMREY, Case Western Reserve University - Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University - Cleveland Clinic Dept. of Quantitative Health Sciences/JJN3

VALERIE F. REYNA, Cornell University

MARCUS RAICHLE, Washington University School of Medicine

DAVID L. FAIGMAN, University of California Hastings College of the Law

JOSHUA BUCKHOLTZ, Harvard University

The ability to accurately predict violence and other forms of serious antisocial behavior would provide important societal benefits, and there is substantial enthusiasm for the potential predictive accuracy of neuroimaging techniques. Here, we review the current status of violence prediction using actuarial and clinical methods, and assess the current state of neuroprediction. We then outline several questions that need to be addressed by future studies of neuroprediction if neuroimaging and other neuroscientific markers are to be successfully translated into public policy.

PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

A New Mind-Body Problem, The Hastings Center   New Study Reveals Why Some People Are More Creative Than Others, The Conversation A Popular Algorithm Is No Better at Predicting Crimes Than Random People, The Atlantic You've Got Brain Mail, Flash Forward Neurodevelopmental Disability on TV: Neuroethics and Season 1 of ABC’s Speechless, The Neuroethics Blog Why You Can't Stop Mid-Action, Even When You Know It's a Bad Idea, Life Hacker Brain Cells Share Information With Virus-Like Capsules, The Atlantic Do Animals Have Their Own Culture?, The Atlantic Why Willpower is Overrated, Vox News Memory Gene Goes Viral, NIH Dogs Can't Speak Human. Here's the Tech That Could Change That, NBC News The Brain’s Marauder’s Map, Scientific American Eight Artworks Inspired by Mental Health Problems, The Guardian Given Medicine, the Patients Got Better. They Remained in Shackles Anyway, The New York Times New AI System Predicts How Long Patients Will Live With Startling Accuracy, Gizmodo Britain Appoints ‘Minister for Loneliness’ to Tackle Social Isolation, NBC News   The Ethical Relevance of the Unconscious, Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine From Healthcare to Warfare and Reverse: How Should We Regulate Dual-Use Neurotechnology?, Neuron Predicting Violent Behavior: What Can Neuroscience Add?, Trends in Cognitive Sciences Persistent Neuronal Activity in Human Prefrontal Cortex Links Perception and Action, Nature Human Behavior Spatiotemporal, Metabolic, and Therapeutic Characterization of Altered Functional Connectivity in Major Depressive Disorder, Human Brain Mapping Local Inhibition of PERK Enhances Memory and Reverses Age-Related Deterioration of Cognitive and Neuronal Properties, 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.

 

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Most Personality Quizzes Are Junk Science. I Found One That Isn’t, FiveThiryEight   A New Mind-Body Problem, The Hastings Center Dolphins Show Self-Recognition Earlier Than Children, The New York Times How to See a Memory, Nature Magazine Your Tweets Could Show If You Need Help for Bipolar Disorder, MIT Technology Review Dog Days: Has Neuroscience Revealed the Inner Lives of Animals?, The Neuroethics Blog A Field Guide to Deception, MIT Technology Review Brain Cap Gives Scientists a Better Look at Brain Behavior, Johns Hopkins Hub Researchers Have Stumbled Upon an Old Drug that Might Treat Alzheimer’s, Quartz A Memory Shortcut, With a Little Help From Friends, The Incidental Economist Brain Surgery in 3-D: Coming Soon to the Operating Theater, The New York Times Debunking Phrenology with 21st Century Methods, Discovery Magazine Google and Others Are Building AI Systems, MIT Technology Review   Studying and modifying brain function with non-invasive brain stimulation, Nature Neuroscience The ethical relevance of the unconscious, Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine Trapping of Syntaxin1a in Presynaptic Nanoclusters by a Clinically Relevant General Anesthetic, Cell Reports Strength in numbers from integrated single-cell neuroscience, Nature Biotechnology Subthalamic nucleus detects unnatural android movement, Scientific Reports

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.

 

"Legal Ownership Is Psychological: Evidence from Young Children"

Recently posted on SSRN:  "Legal Ownership Is Psychological: Evidence from Young Children"

ORI FRIEDMAN, University of Waterloo - Department of Psychology

MADISON PESOWSKI, University of Waterloo - Department of Psychology

BRANDON W. GOULDING, University of Waterloo - Department of Psychology

We suggest that the psychology of ownership encompasses much more than "feelings of ownership", and includes much of "legal" ownership. To make our case, we review ownership in young children. We review findings showing that young children are aware of the ownership status of objects and of people’s ownership rights, which are both parts of "legal ownership" and have little to do with feelings of ownership. We also review findings showing that young children use ownership to understand other people, and consider ownership when predicting how others will act, anticipating how they feel, and inferring their preferences. Because these ways of understanding others are basic psychological activities, these findings again suggest that aspects of "legal" ownership are psychological.

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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)

The Power of Negative Thinking, The Atlantic   Could a Zap to the Brain Derail Destructive Impulses?, NPR Mice Learn to Avoid the Rat Race, Nature The Human Brain’s Bandwidth for Visual Images is Severely Limited, AEON Brain Lesions, Criminal Behavior Linked to Moral Decision-Making Network, Science Daily Neuroscience Has a Lot to Learn from Buddhism, The Atlantic Ketamine Relieved Suicidal Thoughts Within Hours in Hospital Study, Gizmodo Mind-Controlling Parasites Find a Home in the Lab, Discover Magazine Secrets of a “Zombie” Fungus Revealed, Discover Magazine An Electrical Brain Switch Shuts Off Food Cravings, Scientific American Can Math Predict What You’ll Do Next?, The Conversation A Small Electrical Jolt to the Right Brain Region at Just the Right Time Derails Impulsive Behavior, SCOPE, Stanford Medicine The Neuroethics Blog Series on Black Mirror: White Christmas, The Neuroethics Blog America Experiences More Pain than Other Countries, The Atlantic   A Commitment to Open Source in Neuroscience, Neuron Narp Mediates Antidepressant-Like Effects of Electroconvulsive Seizures, Neuropsychopharmacology Should Neurotechnological Treatments Offered to Offenders Always Be in Their Best Interests?, Journal of Medical Ethics Advances in Neuroscience Imply that Harmful Experiments in Dogs are Unethical, Journal of Medical Ethics Direct Electrical Stimulation of the Amygdala Enhances Declarative Memory in Humans, PNAS Tramadol Effects on Physical Performance and Sustained Attention During a 20-min Indoor Cycling Time-Trial: A Randomised Controlled Trial, Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport

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.