Brain Trainers: A Workout for the Mind
Put your cortex through its paces with these software games
Put your cortex through its paces with these software games
A novel brain-imaging technique uncovers the structural connections underlying personality, behavior and disease
Circadian and vision neuroscientist Russell G. Foster answers
Cooling down parts of bird brains reveals clues about motor behaviors
Although scientists have long regarded the brain's white matter as passive infrastructure, new work shows that it actively affects learning and mental illness
Mounting evidence suggests that glial cells, overlooked for half a century, may be nearly as critical to thinking and learning as neurons are
Veterinarian Linda A. Detwiler helps to ensure that a fatal brain disease that can afflict humans doesn't appear in U.S. cattle. It can be a thankless task
How is it that salts of lithium have a beneficial effect on people in a pathologically manic state? Clues to the answer may be found in the ways the lithium ion moves through the membranes of cells...
After a new brain-scanning approach revealed that a seemingly vegetative young woman was actually conscious, she started down the road to a partial recovery
Letters to the editor from the April 2019 issue of Scientific American
Match wits with the Mensa puzzlers
A brain circuit has been isolated that allows us to forget fear, suggesting a treatment target for anxiety disorders
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