Monday, April 30, 2007  Brains, brains, and more brains!  Slate
has an exciting week-long exploration on the latest developments
and implications in neuroscience. William Saletan lists the five
biggest neuroscience developments of the year, including:  1.
The arrival of mind reading. (Scientists in Germany used pattern
recognition software to predict decisions with accuracy rate of
71 percent of the time)  2. The neural alteration of morality.
(Six people with damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex
were presented with moral dilemmas and were found to be two to
three times more willing to kill than people without brain
damage)  3. The medicalization of sexual orientation. (Research
suggests brain biology is involved.)  4. The discovery of
vegetative consciousness (Brain scan of PVS patients where shown
to light up when given a mental task to visualize)  5. The
progress of artificial intelligence.  To read more on Brains!,
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