SA Mind

Experts discuss tips and tricks to let loose your inner ingenuity

Split-brain patients—whose two hemispheres are separated surgically—provide fascinating clues to how a unitary sense of consciousness emerges from the furious activity of billions of brain cells

Life's experiences add molecular switches to the genes that control our brain activity, affecting how susceptible we are to depression, anxiety and drug addiction

Molecules that expose our genes may also revive our recollections and our ability to learn

How to get relief from the insatiable need to scratch

Anorexia may represent a profound psychiatric disorder that spawns an addiction to deprivation

Homosexual behavior is common in nature, and it plays an important role in survival

What makes you so smart? Might be your lizard brain