Neuroscience
Experimental Device Suggests New Path to Rousing Coma Patients
Doctors appear to have jump-started the brain of a young patient by using ultrasound waves
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Neuroscience
Mind Aglow: Scientists Watch Thoughts Form in the Brain
A new technology shows real-time communication among neurons that promises to reveal brain activity in unprecedented detail
Cognition
Is That Picture Looking at Me?
Eye gaze is critically important to social primates such as humans. Maybe that is why illusions involving eyes are so compelling
Neuroscience
How a Curious Condition Solved a Neuroscientific Mystery
A stroke patient, neuroimaging—and Colombian guerrillas—helped settle a decades-long debate on how the brain understands words
Neuroscience
Why We Toss and Turn in an Unfamiliar Bed
Half the brain stays more alert the first night in a new location
Fitness
New Players in the Obesity Puzzle: The Brain’s Glial Cells
Discoveries about the roles they play in appetite and metabolism could unlock new strategies against obesity
Neuroscience
The Brain’s Face Recognition System Is Easy to Fool
The human brain is good at identifying faces, but illusions can fool our “face sense”
Neuroscience
Mind-Controlled Robo-Skeleton Enables Paraplegics to Regain Some Motion
Researchers were surprised when brain–machine interfaces resulted in paralyzed patients’ recovery of long-lost sensation and muscle control
Neuroscience
The Visual Tricks of the Color Red
The facts and fictions of crimson perception
Neuroscience
Olympic Gold May Depend on the Brain's Reward Chemical
A new study reveals that dopamine may help propel athletes into elite mode
Neurology
Athletes are Keeping Their Distance from a Genetic Test for Concussion Risks
Elite athletes aren’t jumping at the chance to get tested either
Biology
Watch a Wasp Take Control of a Cockroach’s Brain [Video]
A video captures the dark side of insect mind control
Cognition
How Does Exercise Benefit Cognition?
David R. Jacobs, a professor in the division of epidemiology and community health at the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota, and Na Zhu, a researcher in the same department, explain...
Neuroscience
Readers Respond to "The Mind of a Terrorist" and More
Letters about Scientific American Mind’s May/June 2016 issue
Neuroscience
Pain Is Controlled as Much by the Brain as by Sensation
Pain is an emotion
Neuroscience
New Imaging Technique Provides First Look at Gene Activity in the Living Human Brain
The innovative method, which appears to show gene activation, is a cousin of PET
Behavior
Work Smarter, Vote Wiser, Sleep Better
A look inside the new issue of Scientific American Mind
Neuroscience
MIT Challenges The New York Times over Book on Famous Brain Patient
200 neuroscientists from around the world are raising questions about an excerpt that published in the paper on Sunday
Biology
How a Wasp Turns Cockroaches into Zombies
A special chemical blend injected into the brains of cockroaches makes them pawns in the jewel wasp’s control—and perfect live food for its offspring
Cognition
Fearsome Halloween-Themed Illusions
Spooky illusions trick and treat your brain
