Mind & Brain
Dyslexia Can Deliver Benefits
With reading difficulties can come other cognitive strengths
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Beef from Former Mad Cow Epicenter Could Hit U.S. Shelves This Year
After nearly 16 years, the U.S. has agreed to import beef from Ireland—the first European country to get the go-ahead since the epidemic of mad cow disease swept the continent In the 1980s and 1990s...
Health
Get the New Skinny on Dietary Fat
What is the new consensus on whether fat is good or bad for you?
Blood Test Tells How Long Concussion Symptoms Will Last
The Sunday after Thanksgiving last year proved tragic for family and friends of 22-year-old Kosta Karageorge. The defensive tackle for the Ohio State Buckeyes was found dead that day after apparently shooting himself in the head...
Mind & Brain
Coffee and Tea May Protect the Brain
Daily drinkers have lower rates of depression and cognitive decline
Neurology
Bio Bigwigs Go after Drugs for Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and ALS
Lists of the biggest challenges in brain science often start—or end—with consciousness. “End” because consciousness is considered so overwhelming a hack that it merits coming last on the list—the ultimate challenge...
Mind & Brain
Autism Risk Linked to Particulate Air Pollution
Children whose mothers were exposed to high levels of fine particulate pollution in late pregnancy have up to twice the risk of developing autism as children of mothers breathing cleaner air, scientists reported...
Google's Top Searches of 2014
Americans looked to Google for information on Ebola, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and the actor Robin Williams’s suicide this year—all of which ranked among the hottest search terms of 2014...
Mind & Brain
Blood Test Forecasts Concussion Severity
Levels of a protein fragment in the blood paralleled how long head injuries benched hockey players. Ingrid Wickelgren reports
Mind & Brain
Exercise Counteracts Genetic Risk for Alzheimer's
Regular physical activity may correct the brain's metabolism to stave off dementia
Mind & Brain
Electric Brain Therapies Improve Their Aim
Noninvasive fields zap specific areas
Health
Diabetes Prevention in Midlife Helps Protect Aging Brain
People with type 2 diabetes in middle age had greater cognitive impairment in the following decades than did their nondiabetic counterparts. Dina Fine Maron reports
Technology
Intel Upgrades Stephen Hawking's Portal to the World
Movie audiences who went to theaters this fall to see The Theory of Everything got a glimpse of the challenges physicist Stephen Hawking has overcome to deliver his groundbreaking insights into the nature of black holes, space and time...
Sex and Suicide: Why Do More Men than Women Kill Themselves?
How far is it from being to nothingness? I hope it's a journey you never decide to take, but wherever death by firearm is the most common method of suicide, it's about half an inch.
One Last Goodbye: The Strange Case of Terminal Lucidity
I'm as sworn to radical rationalism as the next neo-Darwinian materialist. That said, over the years I've had to "quarantine," for lack of a better word, a few anomalous personal experiences that have stubbornly defied my own logical understanding of them...
Mind & Brain
Mouse Experiment Suggests We Might Sleep Off Toxic Memories
One area of brain science that has drawn intense interest in recent years is the study of what psychologists call reconsolidation—a ponderous technical term that, once translated, means giving yourself a second chance...
Concussion Culture: How to Protect Young Athletes
In May of 2012, former NFL linebacker Junior Seau took his own life by shooting himself in the chest. Seau was dealing with depression, mood swings and insomnia.
Mind & Brain
How Doctors Determine the Moment of Death [Excerpt]
The definition of death is hazy but important for medical decisions, explains Harvard neurologist Allan Ropper in the new book Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole
Mind & Brain
Introducing The Psychology Podcast with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman
It’s my great pleasure to introduce The Psychology Podcast with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman, where we give you insights into the mind, brain, behavior and creativity.
Battle of the `Staches Raises Money for Men's Health
People who donate money or fundraise for a cause are often silent heroes. However, unlike many fundraising efforts, it's readily apparent who's participating in one that's currently taking the nation by its facial hair...
