Brain Trainers: A Workout for the Mind
Put your cortex through its paces with these software games
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Finding Connections: How Do the Parts of the Brain Interact?
A novel brain-imaging technique uncovers the structural connections underlying personality, behavior and disease
Do Blind People Suffer from Seasonal Depression?
Circadian and vision neuroscientist Russell G. Foster answers
Brain Cooling Answers Questions about Bird Behavior
Cooling down parts of bird brains reveals clues about motor behaviors
White Matter Matters
Although scientists have long regarded the brain's white matter as passive infrastructure, new work shows that it actively affects learning and mental illness
The Other Half of the Brain
Mounting evidence suggests that glial cells, overlooked for half a century, may be nearly as critical to thinking and learning as neurons are
Keeping the Mad Cows at Bay
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
Lithium and Mania
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...
Regaining Consciousness: One Patient’s Story [Video]
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
Readers Respond to the April 2019 Issue
Letters to the editor from the April 2019 issue of Scientific American
Head Games
Match wits with the Mensa puzzlers
How the Brain Purges Bad Memories
A brain circuit has been isolated that allows us to forget fear, suggesting a treatment target for anxiety disorders
