Fitness
A New Connection between the Gut and Brain
A surprising way that diet leads risks of stroke and cognitive impairment
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Neuroscience
Your Brain Sees Ambiguous Language as a Type of Illusion
‘The Chicken is Ready to Eat’ has two meanings. A new study shows how your neurons decide.
Neuroscience
Do Brain Waves Conduct Neural Activity Like a Symphony?
A dispute at a big neuroscience meeting erupts over whether the field needs new thinking about the way clusters of neurons process information
Neuroscience
How Brain Injuries Deprive People of a Sense of Free Will
Studies of patients with unusual neurological conditions reveal brain networks that contribute to feelings of agency
Biology
Does Turkey Really Make You Sleepy?
The drowsiness we experience after a hearty Thanksgiving meal is usually blamed on the amino acid tryptophan, which turkey supposedly has an extra helping of. Or does it? Scientific American editor Ferris Jabr investigates...
Neuroscience
With Brain Implants, Scientists Aim to Translate Thoughts into Speech
Experts increasingly think a system that could help paralyzed patients is within reach
Neuroscience
Reprogrammed Stem Cells Implanted into Patient with Parkinson’s Disease
A man in his 50s is the first of seven patients to receive the experimental therapy
Neuroscience
Why Don’t We Forget How to Ride a Bike?
The way memories are anchored in the brain plays a role, neuropsychologist Boris Suchan explains
Policy
How History Forgot the Woman Who Defined Autism
Grunya Sukhareva characterized autism nearly two decades before Austrian doctors Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger
Neuroscience
Neuroscientists Make a Case against Solitary Confinement
Prolonged social isolation can do severe, long-lasting damage to the brain
Neuroscience
Deep-Brain Recordings May Show Where Unhappiness Lives
New recordings of electrical activity in the brain help reveal the underpinnings of bad moods
Cognition
You Really Can Learn in Your Sleep
Experimental techniques demonstrate how to strengthen memories when our brains are off-line
Biotech
New Atlas Used to ID Brain Parts for Plans and Actions
A detailed picture of cell types in some areas of the mouse cortex is put to the test
Neuroscience
Falling Walls: Social Relationships as a Spatial Problem
The hippocampus appears to keep track of social dynamics just as it tracks us moving physically through real spaces
Neuroscience
Neuroscience Discovers Power of “Lesion Network Mapping”
A new technique is reviving the century-old study of brain lesions and revealing surprising things about neurological disorders like Parkinson’s disease
What Psychedelic Research Can and Cannot Tell Us about Consciousness
A recent Scientific American blog post misconstrues and oversimplifies the research
Cognition
“Stress Hormone” Cortisol Linked to Early Toll on Thinking Ability
Brain changes, visible on scans, are also associated with Alzheimer’s precursors
Neuroscience
When Sex and Gender Collide
Studies of transgender kids are revealing fascinating insights about gender in the brain
Neuroscience
What Makes Human Brain Cells Unique?
New findings reveal distinctive electrical properties of human neurons that may give us a boost in computing power
Neuroscience
Tinder for Cheetahs; and an Unusual Blindness
Scientific American assistant news editor, Tanya Lewis, and collections editor, Andrea Gawrylewski, host a new podcast that takes a deeper look at short articles from the Advances news section of the magazine...
