Features

• Brain Food

  Food fuels the mind as well as the body. Paying attention to what—and when—we eat can maximize our mental prowess

  Ingrid Kiefer   | October 1, 2007  |

• Brain Stains: In Sheri's Words

  Supplementary web-only content to the "Brain Stains" feature

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• Brain Stains

  Traumatic therapies can have long-lasting effects on mental health

  Kelly Lambert and Scott O. Lilienfeld   | October 1, 2007  | 3

• Searching for God in the Brain

  Researchers are unearthing the roots of religious feeling in the neural commotion that accompanies the spiritual epiphanies of nuns, Buddhists and other people of faith

  David Biello   | October 1, 2007  | 23

• Feeding the Psyche

  Why do we crave chips or chocolate when we are upset or anxious? Scientists are explaining the myriad connections between food and mood

  Michael Macht   | October 1, 2007  |

• Skewed Vision

  Seeing things clearly, new evidence suggests, may be even harder than we thought

  Susana Martinez-Conde   | October 1, 2007  |

• Eric Kandel: From Mind to Brain and Back Again

  Awarded the Nobel Prize for work 40 years ago that revealed memory's most basic mechanisms, this psychiatrist-turned-neuroscientist is still working his discipline's cutting edge

  David Dobbs   | October 1, 2007  |

• Solving the IQ Puzzle

  The 20th century saw the Flynn effect—massive gains in IQ from one generation to another. Now Flynn explains why

  James R. Flynn   | October 1, 2007  | 1

• Tracking a Finer Madness

  Many believers in psychic phenomena are also inventive—a fact that may help bridge the gap between creative genius and clinical insanity

  Peter Brugger   | October 1, 2007  | 2

• Fantasy Therapy

  Steeping patients in computer-created virtual worlds can help heal a multitude of psychiatric ills, including phobias, eating disorders and implacable pain

  Nikolas Westerhoff   | October 1, 2007  |