Features

• Circuit Training

  Computer games for mental workouts

  Kaspar Mossman   | June 1, 2006  |

• Crossing the Barrier

  To treat neurological illnesses, researchers are learning how to smuggle drugs past the shield that guards the brain against infection

  Grit Vollmer   | June 1, 2006  |

• Bitter Could Be Better

  New additives might fool the brain into thinking that bitter foods and medicines do not really taste that bad

  Stefanie Reinberger   | June 1, 2006  |

• Seeing in Black and White

  Why it's not so cut-and-dried

  Alan Gilchrist   | June 1, 2006  |

• Burned Out

  Your job is extremely fulfilling. It is also extremely demanding--and you feel overwhelmed. You are not alone

  Ulrich Kraft   | June 1, 2006  |

• Beyond the Neuron Doctrine

  New experiments are settling a century-long debate between two camps over how neurons communicate. The surprise: both sides are right

  R. Douglas Fields   | June 1, 2006  |

• Inside the Mind of a Savant

  Kim Peek--the inspiration for Rain Main--possesses one of the most extraordinary memories ever recorded. Until we can explain his abilities, we cannot pretend to understand human cognition

  Darold A. Treffert and Daniel D. Christensen   | June 1, 2006  |

• My Date with a Robot

  Japanese researcher Hiroshi Ishiguro has created the world's most attractive android. But is she ready for dating?

  Robert Epstein   | June 1, 2006  |

• Controlling Epilepsy

  One woman's journey through diagnosis and treatment shows how far we have come in using surgery to defuse seizures

  Christian Hoppe   | June 1, 2006  | 2