Features

• New Weapons Against Cocaine Addiction

  Drug therapies show promise in the battle against addictive stimulants

  Peter Sergo   | April 1, 2008  | 3

• Subconscious Sight

  People with "blindsight" can correctly deduce the visual features of objects they cannot see. Such visual intuition can even exceed what is possible with normal vision

  Susana Martinez-Conde   | April 1, 2008  | 3

• Imagined Ugliness

  Some people are convinced that they are hideously deformed because of an obscure or nonexistent physical "flaw"

  Susanne Rytina   | April 1, 2008  | 1

• A Face in the Crowd

  Is our remarkable ability to recognize human faces hardwired in the brain or a result of lots of practice?

  Nina Bublitz   | April 1, 2008  | 1

• How Stereotyping Yourself Contributes to Your Success (or Failure)

  People's performance on intellectual and athletic tasks is shaped by awareness of stereotypes about the groups to which they belong. New research explains why— and how we can break free from the expectations of others

  S. Alexander Haslam , Jessica Salvatore , Thomas Kessler and Stephen D. Reicher   | April 1, 2008  | 23

• Infected with Insanity: Could Microbes Cause Mental Illness?

  Viruses or bacteria may be at the root of schizophrenia and other disorders

  Melinda Wenner   | April 1, 2008  | 40

• Buried Prejudice: The Bigot in Your Brain

  Deep within our subconscious, all of us harbor biases that we consciously abhor. And the worst part is: we act on them

  Siri Carpenter   | April 1, 2008  | 43

• The Orgasmic Mind: The Neurological Roots of Sexual Pleasure

  Achieving sexual climax requires a complex conspiracy of sensory and psychological signals—and the eventual silencing of critical brain areas

  Martin Portner   | April 1, 2008  | 20