Embrace Your Inner Eccentric
How a desire to stand out from the crowd shapes behavior and creative thinking
Features
From Contretemps to Creativity
For some people, hardship can trigger creative growth
How to Plan for Your Future Self
Getting to know yourself—and your future self—can put you on a path toward contentment
Is Your Brain Lying to You?
How the brain leads us to believe false truths
Calming a Child's Mind
New techniques help kids develop healthy behaviors and lasting resilience
New Therapy Helps Children Wallop Their Worries
Children can overcome intense anxiety by being encouraged to do just what they fear most
Parent Training Can Improve Kids' Behavior
An interactive parent-training programcan stamp out behavior problemsin kids—and abuse from parents
Departments
March/April Scientific American MIND News Ticker
New Strategies to Calm a Child's Mind
Can ADHD Be Prevented?
Is Depression Just Bad Chemistry?
- Letters
Readers Respond to "Unconscious Bias"
- Head Lines
Brain Differences Help Explain Eating Disorders
Sex Hormone Lessens Snacking
Food Tastes Bland While Multitasking
Are You Afraid of Holes?
Eye-Tracking Software That Detects Mental States
Should Children Take Antipsychotic Drugs?
What You Need to Know about Flame Retardants
How Risky, Really, Is That Chemical?
Yoga Lowers Inmates' Aggression and Anxiety
How Yoga Changes the Brain
How Science Mimics Faith
Zapping the Brain Increases Art's Appeal
New Drugs May Transform Down Syndrome
People Are More Moral in the Morning
How to Be a Better Son or Daughter
- Illusions
How 1 Scientist Cracked the Brain's Visual Code
- Perspectives
Criminals Need Mental Health Care
Why Greed Begets More Greed
- Reviews and Recommendations
MIND Reviews: Moral Tribes
MIND Reviews: My Age of Anxiety
MIND Reviews: The Origin of Ideas
MIND Reviews: The Truth about Trust
MIND Books Roundup: Free Will
- Ask the Brains
Can Heart Surgery Change a Person's Personality?
What Causes the Brain to Have Slow Processing Speed, and How Can the Rate Be Improved?
- Head Games
Head Games - March/April 2014
- Mind in Pictures
Do Zombies Exist?
