Features

• The Power to Persuade

  How masters of "supersuasion" can change your mind

  Kevin Dutton   | March 1, 2010  | 20

• A Sensory Fix for Problems in School

  Certain learning disabilities are linked to problems of perception, when the brain misinterprets sensory input. Targeted exercises can help correct these difficulties

  Burkhart Fischer   | March 1, 2010  | 4

• The Pluses of Getting It Wrong

  New research makes the case for difficult tests in schools and suggests an unusual technique that anyone can use to learn

  Henry L. Roediger III and Bridgid Finn   | March 1, 2010  | 5

• Busting Big Myths in Popular Psychology

  Pop psych lore is a bewildering mix of fact and fallacy. Here we shatter some widely held misconceptions about the mind and human behavior

  Scott O. Lilienfeld , Steven Jay Lynn , John Ruscio and Barry L. Beyerstein   | March 1, 2010  | 8

• The Brain and the Written Word

  A cognitive neuroscientist explains his quest to understand how reading works in the mind—and how the brain is changed by education and culture

  Gareth Cook   | March 1, 2010  | 1

• New Hope for Battling Brain Cancer

  Studies suggest that stem cells sustain deadly tumors in the brain—and that aiming at these insidious culprits could lead to a cure

  Gregory Foltz   | March 1, 2010  | 3

• Are You Mentally Healthy?

  Here's a new screening tool that might set your mind at ease—or get you chatting with a therapist

  Robert Epstein   | March 1, 2010  | 13