Mindfulness Can Improve Your Attention and Health
A focus on the present, dubbed “mindfulness,” can make you happier and healthier. Training to deepen your immersion in the moment works by improving attention
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Scientists Decipher the Healing Powers of Placebos
Scientists are dissecting the placebo effect in hopes of deploying its active ingredients as treatments
Enhancing the Brain's Flexibility Could Unseat Addiction
Restoring the brain's flexibility may help addicts act on their desire to quit
Warped Sense of Time Heightens Temptations
Impulsivity arises from a tendency to want small imminent rewards more than big future benefits. How can we correct our skewed values to care for our future selves?
How Real-Time Brain Scanning Could Alleviate Pain
New imaging methods allow people to observe their brain activity in real-time. This technology could help combat brain-based disorders and improve learning
Urban Living Raises the Risk of Emotional Disorders
Mounting evidence shows how city living can harm our mental health
Social Therapies for Schizophrenia Show Promise
Treating the less well-recognized social aspects of schizophrenia could help patients lead fuller, more productive lives
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- From the Editor
Sharpen Your Powers of Attention
- Letters
Readers Respond to “The Science of Genius"
- Head Lines
Myth of Family Meals in Parent-Child Bonding Gets Debunked
To Predict Success in Children, Look Beyond Willpower
Placebos Work Better for Nice People
Clumps of Neurons Help Scientists Study Gut Disorders
TV Romance Can Affect Real-Life Marriage
Velvet Improves Older Adults' Well-Being
Mirror Neurons Can Reflect Hatred
Old Drugs Find New Life as Brain Treatments
An Internal Sedative Could Help Treat Troubled Slumber
Don't Sleep It Off
Faulty Sleep Mechanism Might Cause Trauma to Linger
Magnetic Brain Stimulation Could Ease Pain
Rational Thought Can Override a Generous Intuition
How to Be a Better Driver
Empathy in Negotiations Can Both Help and Hinder
Is Cocoa the Brain Drug of the Future?
Chromosome Caps Offer Clues to Aging
- Illusions
Artists Play With Light and Shadows to Trick the Eye
- Perspectives
To Drink or Not to Drink
- Consciousness Redux
New Technique Seeks to Measure Consciousness
- Reviews and Recommendations
MIND Reviews: Mastermind
MIND Reviews: The Brain Supremacy
MIND Reviews: Love 2.0
MIND Reviews: Why Humans Like to Cry
MIND Reviews: Books Roundup
- Ask the Brains
Can Training to Become Ambidextrous Improve Brain Function?
Can We Control Our Thoughts? Why Do Thoughts Pop into My Head as I'm Trying to Fall Asleep?
- Head Games
Head Games
- Mind in Pictures
Split-Brain Patients Reveal Brain's Flexibility
- Facts and Fictions in Mental Health
Is Divorce Bad for Children?
