Big Answers from Little People
In infants, Elizabeth Spelke finds fundamental insights into how men and women think
Stories by David Dobbs
Soldiers' Stress: What Doctors Get Wrong about PTSD
A growing number of experts insist that the concept of post-traumatic stress disorder is itself disordered and that soldiers are suffering as a result
MIND Reviews: December 2008/January 2009
Reviews and recommendations from the December 2008/January 2009 issue of Scientific American MIND
MIND Reviews: June/July 2008
Reviews and recommendations from the June/July 2008 issue of Scientific American MIND
The Green Space Cure: The Psychological Value of Biodiversity
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Mind Matters
where top researchers in neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry explain and discuss the findings and theories driving their fields.
Not-so-deliberate: The decisive power of what you don't know you know
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where top researchers in neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry explain and discuss the findings and theories driving their fields.
Dog tails as tell-tales: Or how a dog solves the mind-body problem and shows us to be monkeys
_____________________ Dog Tails as Tell-Tales: The Evolution of Brain-Hemisphere Specialization Peter F. MacNeilageUniversity of Texas at AustinA dog earns its reputation as best friend in part because it wags its tail in joy at the sight of its owner...
Attention! How your brain manages its need to heed
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where top researchers in neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry explain and discuss the findings and theories driving their fields.
Can nurture save you from your own genes? Genes, environment and depression
Welcome to Mind Matterswhere top researchers in neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry explain and discuss the findings and theories driving their fields.
Eric Kandel: From Mind to Brain and Back Again
Awarded the Nobel Prize for work 40 years ago that revealed memory's most basic mechanisms, this psychiatrist-turned-neuroscientist is still working his discipline's cutting edge
