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• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Why Do Top Athletes Suddenly Develop “the Yips”—a Tendency to Choke under Pressure?

  May 18, 2013  | 5

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Can We Control Our Thoughts? Why Do Thoughts Pop into My Head as I'm Trying to Fall Asleep?

  Apr 6, 2013  | 21

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Can Training to Become Ambidextrous Improve Brain Function?

  Mar 24, 2013  | 30

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Does Photographic Memory Exist?

  Dec 30, 2012  | 26

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  As I Get Older, Why Does My Memory for Names Seem to Deteriorate?

  Dec 1, 2012  | 13

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Why Is it Impossible to Stop Thinking, to Render the Mind a Complete Blank?

  Dec 1, 2012  | 39

• Scientific American Mind |  More Science

  Why do children generally forget all their memories from before the age of three or four?

  Sep 29, 2012  | 24

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Can You Make a Sociopath—Either Through Brain Injury or Other Types of Trauma?

  Sep 1, 2012  | 21

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Is a Bad Mood Contagious?

  Jul 11, 2012  | 4

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Why Does Exercise Make Us Feel Good?

  Jun 24, 2012  | 6

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  How Do Painkillers Buffer against Social Rejection?

  Jeannine Stamatakis, an instructor at various colleges in the San Francisco Bay Area, answers

  By Jeannine Stamatakis   | Apr 23, 2012  | 4

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Is It True That Left-Handed People Are Smarter Than Right-Handed People?

  Chris McManus, professor of psychology and medical education at University College London, responds

  By Chris McManus   | Apr 14, 2012  | 21

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  What Are the Structural Differences in the Brain between Animals That Are Self-Aware (Humans, Apes) and Other Vertebrates?

  Robert O. Duncan, a behavioral scientist at York College, the City University of New York, responds

  By Robert O. Duncan   | Mar 25, 2012  | 25

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Is It Possible to Use More of Our Brains?

  Barry Gordon, professor of neurology and cognitive science at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, replies

  By Barry Gordon   | Mar 3, 2012  | 21

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  How Do Our Thoughts Influence Our Physical Sensations?

  Jeannine Stamatakis, an instructor at several colleges in the San Francisco Bay Area, explains

  By Jeannine Stamatakis   | Feb 11, 2012  | 13

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Is There a Difference between the Brain of an Atheist and the Brain of a Religious Person?

  Andrew Newberg, director of research at the Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University and Hospital in Philadelphia, responds

  By Andrew Newberg   | Jan 16, 2012  | 53

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Are We Biologically Inclined to Couple for Life?

  Jeannine Callea Stamatakis, who is an instructor at ­several colleges in the San Francisco Bay Area, ­responds

  By Jeannine Callea Stamatakis   | Nov 21, 2011  | 27

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  How Does Our Brain Learn New Information?

  Heidi Johansen-Berg, a neuroscientist at the University of Oxford, responds

  By Heidi Johansen-Berg   | Nov 8, 2011  

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  How much can the brain recover from years of excessive alcohol consumption?

  Richard Ridderinkhof, professor of neurocognitive development and aging at the University of Amsterdam, answers

  By Richard Ridderinkhof   | Oct 8, 2011  | 9

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Where are the images and ideas from dreams located in the brain, and is there any way to capture them?

  Mark A. W. Andrews, director and professor of physiology at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine at Seton Hill University in Greensburg, Pa., replies

  By Mark A. W. Andrews   | Sep 17, 2011  | 4

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  What happens in the brain when we experience a panic attack?

  By Paul Li   | Jul 3, 2011  | 10

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Why Did the Absence of the Corpus Callosum in Kim Peek's Brain Increase His Memory Capacity?

  By Jeannine Stamatakis   | Jul 1, 2011  | 10

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Why Do Memories of Vivid Dreams Disappear Soon After Waking Up?

  By Ernest Hartmann   | Jun 3, 2011  | 14

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Why can most people remember a color, but only a few can remember pitch?

  By Robert O. Duncan   | Apr 25, 2011  | 4

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  When do human beings start to dream?

  By Paul Li   | Apr 5, 2011  | 5

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