Departments

• Headlines: Nice Doctors Heal You Faster, and More
• Mental Maps Reveal the Brain's Plug-and-Play Plasticity
• Cell Phone Psychology: Personal Training by Phone
• Risk-Taking Teens Have More Mature Brains
• Monitoring Live Brains Reveals Plasticity
• Is Multitasking Limited by a Mental Bottleneck?
• Ability to Guess Others' Thoughts Tied to Language Proficiency
• Pollution's Toll on the Brain
• How You Learn More from Success Than Failure
• Does Vitamin D Improve Brain Function?
• Does Morning Sickness Mean Smart Kids?

Readers Respond on "Do Parents Matter?"--And More...

• Ask the Brains: Are our Brains Constantly Making Subconscious Calculations?
• Ask the Brains: Why Do We Have Trouble Facing Our Credit Cards the "Right" Way?

• MIND Reviews: Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals
• MIND Reviews: Shaken: Journey into the Mind of a Parkinson's Patient
• MIND Reviews: The Human Spark
• MIND Reviews: Brainy Gifts

• Illusions: The Mona Lisa and Abraham Lincoln

• Foreign Afflictions: Mental Disorders across Country Borders

• The Will to Power--Is "Free Will" All in Your Head?

• Calendar: MIND events in November and December

• The Color of Sin--Why the Good Guys Wear White

• Dangerous Liaisons: How to Deal with a Drama Queen

• Smart Set: Exploring Intelligence in the Brain

 

Features

What Does a Smart Brain Look Like?: Inner Views Show How We Think
A new neuroscience of intelligence is revealing that not all brains work in the same way
By Richard J. Haier

Rational and Irrational Thought: The Thinking That IQ Tests Miss
We assume intelligence and rationality go together. But we shouldn't be surprised when smart people do foolish things.
By Keith E. Stanovich

True Love: How to Find It
Combing through your social network is the most fruitful—and most common—way of finding the love of your life
By Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler

Why We Worry
Chronic worrying stems from a craving for control. But the more we fret, the less our bodies are able to cope with stress
By Victoria Stern

Alzheimer's Update: New Insight May Speed Therapies
New technologies for spotting Alzheimer's disease are poised to unravel its cause and speed progress toward effective treatments
By Joel N. Shurkin

Secrets of How Meditation Works
New research reveals the cell mechanisms underlying a meditative state
By Peter B. Reiner