Departments

• Helping Stroke Victims by Harnessing Signals from Half of the Brain
• Paying for Pleasure
• Baby in the Brain
• A Magnetic Boost
• Competing Clocks
• Mother's Milk
• Even Better than a Personal Best
• The Brain Region Responsible for that Word on the Tip of your Tongue
• Sweeter Than Cocaine
• A Brighter Tune
• Sounding Out Dyslexia
• Viewing Cartoons Reveals Cultural Differences
• In Your Face
• Eye Movements Shed Light on Our Sense of Humor
• Brain Injury's Toll

Letters to the Editors

• Could deja vu be explained by grid cells?

• Mind Reviews Books, Movies and More

• Why Things Cost $19.95

• Calendar: April / May 2008

• Once a Sex Offender, Always a Sex Offender? Maybe not.

• Into Thin Air: Mountain Climbing Kills Brain Cells

• Transparently Obvious

• Great Expectations

 

Features

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
By Susana Martinez-Conde

A Face in the Crowd
Is our remarkable ability to recognize human faces hardwired in the brain or a result of lots of practice?
By Nina Bublitz

Imagined Ugliness
Some people are convinced that they are hideously deformed because of an obscure or nonexistent physical "flaw"
By Susanne Rytina

New Weapons Against Cocaine Addiction
Drug therapies show promise in the battle against addictive stimulants
By Peter Sergo

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
By S. Alexander Haslam, Jessica Salvatore, Thomas Kessler and Stephen D. Reicher

Infected with Insanity: Could Microbes Cause Mental Illness?
Viruses or bacteria may be at the root of schizophrenia and other disorders
By Melinda Wenner

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
By Siri Carpenter

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
By Martin Portner