Fit Body, Fit Mind? Your Workout Makes You Smarter
How can you stay sharp into old age? It is not just a matter of winning the genetic lottery. What you do can make a difference
Features
Why Music Moves Us
New research explains music's power over human emotions and its benefits to our mental and physical well-being
Do ADHD Drugs Take a Toll on the Brain?
Research hints that hidden risks might accompany long-term use of the medicines that treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
Can You Be Too Perfect?
Striving to be faultless can foster failure—or drive success—depending on the type of perfectionist you are
A Patchwork Mind: How Your Parents' Genes Shape Your Brain
We each have two parents, but their genetic contributions to what makes us us are uneven. New research shows we are an amalgam of influences from mom and dad
Do Parents Matter?
A researcher argues that peers are much more important than parents, that psychologists underestimate the power of genetics, and that we have a lot to learn from Asian classrooms
Departments
- From the Editor
Pump Your Brain—And Other Stories from MIND
- Letters
Letters to the Editors, July/August 2009
- Head Lines
Close Call Counts: Neuroscience of Gambling Addictions
Genetic Overlap
Don't Talk It Out
Monkey Education
Do Brain Trainer Games and Software Work?
Head Lines: Practice Removes Prejudice
Neuron Cannibalism: Hungry Male Cells Consume Their Own Proteins
Pride: Deadly Sin or Social Lubricant?
The Load of Lying: Testing for Truth
Alternative Ideas about Alzheimer's
Popularity is In Your Genes
Observing Others' Self-Control Can Sap Your Own
Coffee Breakdown: Is There a Link between Caffeine and Hallucinations?
Shaking Hands--Neuroscience of Tremors
How Fructose Impairs the Memory
How Monkeys Teach Tool Use
- Illusions
Seeing in Stereo: Illusions of Depth
- Perspectives
What Your Choice of Words Says about Your Personality
- Consciousness Redux
A "Complex" Theory of Consciousness
- Reviews and Recommendations
MIND Reviews: July/August 2009
- Ask the Brains
Are certain genders or body types better at the art of persuasion?
- Head Games
Head Games
- Mind in Pictures
Mind In Pictures
- Calendar
SciAm Mind Calendar: July/August 2009
- We're Only Human
Try a Little Powerlessness—Pitfalls of Self-Control
- Facts and Fictions in Mental Health
What Do We Know about Tourette's?
