PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

The Public Find Articles About Education More Convincing When They Contain Extraneous Neuroscience, The British Psychological Society's Research Digest   Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body, MIT Technology Review What's Wrong With Growing Blobs of Brain Tissue?, The Atlantic It’s Westworld. What’s Wrong With Cruelty to Robots?, The New York Times With €1.5 billion for artificial intelligence research, Europe pins hopes on ethics, Science Magazine We’re underestimating the mind-warping potential of fake video, Vox How images change our race bias, The Conversation We’re Good At Recognizing Distorted Faces, Discover Magazine Having an audience might make you perform better, study finds, HUB, Johns Hopkins Univ. Why genetics makes some people more vulnerable to opioid addiction – and protects others, The Conversation The Effects of Neuroscientific Framing on Legal Decision Making, The Neuroethics Blog Why It Seems as if Everyone Is Always Angry With You, The New York Times Memory-boosting brain implants are in the works. Would you get one?, NBC News Aneurysm strikes baseball pitcher, but why? A neurosurgeon explains the mysterious condition, The Conversation How Artificial Intelligence Could Increase the Risk of Nuclear War, Rand Corporation Human nature matters, AEON Is ‘friendly fire’ in the brain provoking Alzheimer’s disease?, Nature Magazine Why it’s so hard for doctors to understand your pain, The Conversation Visiting Scholars, Center for Neuroscience & Society, Univ. of Pennsylvania   The ethics of experimenting with human brain tissue, Nature Magazine Continued access to investigational brain implants, Nature Reviews Neuroscience Fear Memory Recall Potentiates Opiate Reward Sensitivity through Dissociable Dopamine D1 vs. D4 Receptor-Dependent Memory Mechanisms in the Prefrontal Cortex, Journal of Neuroscience Control of mechanical pain hypersensitivity in mice through ligand-targeted photoablation of TrkB-positive sensory neurons, Nature Communications Aging in the 21st Century: Using Neuroscience to Assess Competency in Guardianships, SSRN Identity change and informed consent, British Medical Journal

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