PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

The Messy Biological Basis of Culture, Nature   Sedate a Plant, and It Seems to Lose Consciousness. Is It Conscious?, New York Times Will We Ever Be Able to Upload a Mind to a New Body?, Gizmodo 100,000 happy moments, MIT Technology Review Risky Antipsychotic Drugs Still Overprescribed In Nursing Homes, NPR The wilder shores of brain boosting, Nature Spinning for the win: Repetition helps Olympians stay oriented, even as they complete complex spins and flips, Johns Hopkins Hub A Brain Implant Improved Memory, Scientists Report, New York Times Planes don’t flap their wings: does AI work like a brain?, AEON A Tiny Pulse Of Electricity Can Help The Brain Form Lasting Memories, NPR Your friends’ brains process the world the same way as you, Quartz Natural painkiller nasal spray could replace addictive opioids, trial indicates, The Guardian How to control a machine using your mind, BBC People with depression are more likely to say certain words, Quartz What happens to your body and brain when you watch football, NBC News More efficient machine learning could upend the AI paradigm, MIT Technology Review Why Don't Babies Smile from Birth?, Scientific American   The limited prosocial effects of meditation: A systematic review and meta-analysis, Scientific Reports HappyDB: A Corpus of 100,000 Crowdsourced Happy Moments, Publicly available Modulating emotion perception – Opposing effects of inhibitory and excitatory prefrontal cortex stimulation, Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging Striatal neurons directly converted from Huntington’s disease patient fibroblasts recapitulate age-associated disease phenotypes, Nature Neuroscience

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