Features

• Picture This

  How does the brain create images in our minds?

  Thomas Grüter   | February 1, 2006  |

• Do Gays Have a Choice?

  Science offers a clear and surprising answer to a controversial question

  Robert Epstein   | February 1, 2006  |

• Combating Stress in Iraq

  Psychologists on the battlefield are helping soldiers stay mentally fit during long and frightful tours of duty

  Bret A. Moore and Greg M. Reger   | February 1, 2006  |

• One Person, One Neuron?

  Nerve cells devoted to recognizing Halle Berry or Bill Clinton? Absurd. That's what most neuroscientists thought¿¿--until recently

  Katja Gaschler   | February 1, 2006  |

• Science Probes Spirituality

  What happens in the brain to create a sense of peace during meditation? And could drugs tap those mechanisms without us focusing inward for hours?

  Jamie Talan   | February 1, 2006  | 1

• Freud Returns

  Neuroscientists are finding that their biological descriptions of the brain may fit together best when integrated by psychological theories Freud sketched a century ago

  Mark Solms   | February 1, 2006  |

• Train Your Brain

  Mental exercises with neurofeedback may ease symptoms of attention-deficit disorder, epilepsy and depression--and even boost cognition in healthy brains

  Ulrich Kraft   | February 1, 2006  | 3

• Mindful of Symbols

  On the way to learning that one thing can represent another, young children often conflate the real item and its symbol. These errors show how difficult it is to start thinking symbolically

  Judy S. DeLoache   | February 1, 2006  | 1

• Mastery of Emotions

  Joseph E. LeDoux discovered how fear arises. Now he is showing that the biology of emotions is what gives life meaning

  David Dobbs   | February 1, 2006  |

• Do Animals Have Feelings?

  Animal lovers insist their fellow creatures experience joy, sympathy, fear and grief, but scientifically, it is hard to say

  Klaus Wilhelm   | February 1, 2006  |

• Fighting Parkinson's

  Konrad Schmidt and Wolfgang Oertel   | February 1, 2006  |