Rebuilding Memories Makes Them Stick
Even after his death, the famous amnesic H. M. is revolutionizing our understanding of how memory works and how we maintain it as we age
Features
What Does the Hippocampus Do?
New findings on people with a damaged hippocampus suggest a bold rethinking of the way we map the brain
How Dads Influence Teens' Happiness
The influence of fathers on their teenage children has long been overlooked. Now researchers are finding surprising ways in which dads make a difference
Build Your Own Family
Not all families have two deeply committed parents. For everyone else, here are the essentials for raising kids right
Designing Cameras That Work Like Eyes
To improve photography, engineers are designing cameras that behave more like eyes
Best Illusions of the Year
Take a visual journey through seven prizewinning illusions
Departments
Stem Cell Therapy Could Transform Parkinson's
Readers Respond to "Speak for Yourself"
Is Meditation Overrated?
My Brain Made Me Pull the Trigger
Sing Your Way to Fitness
Synesthesia Helps Explain Mysterious Spelunker's Illusion
How to Be a Better Negotiator
May/June 2014 Scientific American MIND News Ticker
- From the Editor
The Science of Memory
- Head Lines
Music and Language, Intertwined
Many Animals Can Think Abstractly
Bees Have Small Brains But Big Ideas
Orangutans Share Their Future Plans with Others
Spoilers Can Make a Joke Funnier
Lasers That Detect Neurological Disease
Medical Marijuana: How the Evidence Stacks Up
Music Helps Kids Read
Music Lessons Combat Poverty's Effect on the Brain
Ambient Music Eases Pain
Memories of Meth Can Be Deleted
5 Ways to Meddle with Memory
How Blind People Detect Light
- Illusions
Illusions That Play Hide-and-Seek with Perception
- Perspectives
Can Acupuncture Curb Killer Immune Reactions?
- Consciousness Redux
Consciousness Might Emerge from a Data Broadcast
- Reviews and Recommendations
MIND Reviews: Mindwise
MIND Reviews: It's a Jungle in There
MIND Reviews: Inheritance
Books Roundup: Creating Convictions
- Ask the Brains
I Have Asperger's, and My Mum Says My Brain Works Differently. How So?
- Head Games
Head Games
- Mind in Pictures
How Sleep Protects the Brain
- Facts and Fictions in Mental Health
The Truth about Shock Therapy
