Features

• A Revealing Reflection

  Mirror neurons are providing stunning insights into everything from how we learn to walk to how we empathize with others

  David Dobbs   | April 1, 2006  |

• Electric Thoughts?

  The latest computer designs draw inspiration from human neural networks. But will machines ever really think?

  Yvonne Raley   | April 1, 2006  |

• Hunting for Answers

  A single mutation casts the death sentence of Huntington's disease. Researchers are pinning down how that mutation ruins neurons--knowledge that may suggest therapies

  Juergen Andrich and Joerg T. Epplen   | April 1, 2006  |

• Psychotherapy on Trial

  Empirically supported therapies seek to bring the power of research-proven techniques to the therapist's office. So why are they controversial?

  Hal Arkowitz and Scott O. Lilienfeld   | April 1, 2006  |

• Staying Sober

  Better understanding of how alcohol alters brain chemistry reveals mechanisms for beating dependency

  Andreas Heinz   | April 1, 2006  | 1

• Bird Brains? Hardly

  Parrots demonstrate impressive cognitive feats that rival the talents of chimps and dolphins

  Christine Scholtyssek   | April 1, 2006  | 1

• Essay: The New Science of Mind

  A forecast of the major problems scientists need to solve

  Eric R. Kandel   | April 1, 2006  | 2

• Freud Returns

  Neuroscientists are finding that their biological descriptions of the brain may fit together best when integrated by psychological theories that Freud sketched a century ago

  Mark Solms   | April 1, 2006  |

• Neurotic about Neurons

  Freud's theories sprang directly from neuroscience, until he began interrogating sexually frustrated women

  Steve Ayan   | April 1, 2006  |