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

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

Freud returns? Like a bad dream.

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

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

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

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

A forecast of the major problems scientists need to solve

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

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