Departments

• How Does the Brain Form Sentences?
• Avoiding Sugar Key to Ending Senior Moments
• How Conflicts Escalate: Overreacting to Perceived Slights
• Finding Connections: How Do the Parts of the Brain Interact?
• A Wiring Diagram in the Brain for Depression
• Athletic Ability May Lie in a Single Gene
• Hierarchies among Equals--Origins of Pecking Orders
• Head Lines: I Know That Nose
• Brain Cooling Answers Questions about Bird Behavior
• Bird Naps: How Migratory Flyers Catch Up on Sleep

Readers Respond on Procrastination--And More...

• Does Postpartum Depression Serve an Evolutionary Purpose?
• Do Blind People Suffer from Seasonal Depression?

• MIND Reviews: Out of Our Heads, by Alva Noë
• MIND Reviews: The Linguists
• MIND Reviews: Beyond Rain Main--Autism in Film
• MIND Reviews: Why We Make Mistakes, by Joseph T. Hallinan

• Illusions in Motion: The Power of Symmetry

• Defense Mechanisms: Neuroscience Meets Psychoanalysis

• Calendar: Mind events in April and May

• Explaining Fiscal Foolishness--Psychology and the Economy

• All Together Now: The Universal Appeal of Moving in Unison

• How to Fight Road Rage

• Laughter as Medicine-- and Other Stories from MIND

 

Features

How Humor Makes You Friendlier, Sexier
Seeing the bright side of life may strengthen the psyche, ease pain and tighten social bonds
By Steve Ayan

The Roots of Problem Personalities
Scientists are peering into the brains of people with borderline personality disorder and finding clues to the roots of this disabling illness
By Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg

Knowing Your Chances: What Health Stats Really Mean
Learn how to put aside unjustified fears and hopes and how to weigh your real risk of illness--or likelihood of recovery
By Gerd Gigerenzer, Wolfgang Gaissmaier, Elke Kurz-Milcke, Lisa M. Schwartz and Steven Woloshin

Learn to Think Better: Tips from a Savant
You may never have the memory of Rain Man, but you can still get tips for improving your cognitive performance from this extraordinary thinker
By Jonah Lehrer

How Room Designs Affect Your Work and Mood
Brain research can help us craft spaces that relax, inspire, awaken, comfort and heal
By Emily Anthes

Brain Trainers: A Workout for the Mind
Put your cortex through its paces with these software games
By Kaspar Mossman