Departments

• Jumping Neural DNA Key to Brain Plasticity?
• Mixed Impressions: How We Judge Others on Multiple Levels
• More Than Just a Bad Dream--A Nightmare's Impact on the Waking Brain
• The Neural Advantage of Speaking 2 Languages
• Are Our Brains Wired for Categorization?
• Should Parents Spank Their Kids?
• Immune Response May Worsen Alzheimer's
• Head Lines: Handwriting Reveals Liars
• Fetal Recall?--Memory in Utero
• Bringing Science Policies to Clinical Psychology
• Eye Movement May Be Key to Retrieve Unconscious Memories

Readers Respond to "The Social Cure"--And More...

• How does background noise affect our concentration?
• How are memories saved?

• MIND Reviews: The United States of Tara
• MIND Reviews: The Human Brain Book
• MIND Reviews: Doctoring the Mind
• MIND Reviews: In Search of Memory

• A Moving Experience: Illusions That Trick the Brain

• Reviving Consciousness in Injured Brains

• How Birth Order Affects Your Personality

• Calendar: MIND events in January and February

• Why Science Tells Us Not to Rely on Eyewitness Accounts

• I Learned It at the Movies--Hollywood as a Teacher

• How Science Can Help You Fall (and Stay) in Love

 

Features

Depression's Evolutionary Roots
Perhaps depression is not a malfunction but a mental adaptation that focuses the mind to better solve complex problems
By Paul W. Andrews and J. Anderson Thomson Jr.

Fall in Love and Stay That Way
Nothing is more fulfilling than being in a successful love relationship. Yet we leave our love lives entirely to chance. Maybe we don't have to anymore
By Robert Epstein

The Happy Couple: Secrets to a Long Marriage
The key to keeping the magic alive in a marriage, experts say, is finding ways to promote the positive
By Suzann Pileggi

Are Social Networks Messing with Your Head?
Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and their cousins have evolved from college fad to global ubiquity in seven short years. Whether they are good for our mental health is another matter
By David DiSalvo

Brain-Training Software to Improve Your Driving Skills
Could computer software based on cognitive science improve older drivers' skills?
By Kaspar Mossman

Daring to Die: The Psychology of Suicide
Wanting to die is not enough to trigger suicide. To end their own lives, humans need the guts and the means to carry out their plans
By Karen Springen