Features

• Listening with Your Eyes

  To perceive the world as a whole, our five senses have to team up in the brain--and in some cases, they actually seem to fuse with one another

  Christoph Kayser   | April 1, 2007  |

• The Myth of the Teen Brain

  We blame teen turmoilon immature brains. But did the brains cause the turmoil, or did the turmoil shape the brains?

  Robert Epstein   | April 1, 2007  |

• Addicted to Food?

  What drives people, against their better judgment, to eat more food than they need? Scientists look to the brain for answers

  Oliver Grimm   | April 1, 2007  |

• A Personal Obsession

  What drives stalkers to pursue their victims?

  Isabel Wondrak and Jens Hoffmann   | April 1, 2007  |

• Lithium's Healing Power

  For half a century, lithium salts have saved thousands from the potentially lethal grip of bipolar disorder. Surprising new findings now hint that these salts may also offer hope as treatments for neurological ailments from Alzheimer's disease to stroke

  Jochen Paulus   | April 1, 2007  |

• Freeing a Locked-In Mind

  Vegetative patients may soon be able to communicate with the outside world

  Karen Schrock   | April 1, 2007  | 2

• Chips in Your Head

  Damaged or diseased brains could soon get a boost from implanted prosthetics

  Frank W. Ohl and Henning Scheich   | April 1, 2007  |

• Through a Glass, Darkly

  A distorted body image is symptomatic of nearly all eating disorders. Correcting this mental reflection can help sufferers recover

  Christian Eggers and Verena Liebers   | April 1, 2007  | 1

• The Pain Gate

  A rare disorder brings insights into the nature of pain

  David Dobbs   | April 1, 2007  |