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To Diagnose Mental Illness, Read the Brain

Rather than relying on symptoms, scientists are developing a “brain circuits first” approach to mental health. 

How a Messy Kitchen Might Ruin Your Diet

In a chaotic environment people who do not feel in control tend to overeat

Optogenetics Lights Up Therapeutic Neuroscience

Enhanced by emerging wireless microchips, technique could offer new routes to treatment for conditions like Parkinson’s and depression

Smartphones Won't Make Your Kids Dumb--We Think

Are screens a sinister trap or magical portal for children as young as 18 months? 

How Alcohol Ravages the Teen Brain

Lizard Stripes May Mess Up Predators' Timing

A lizard's stripes may make them look like they’re moving slower than they really are, confusing predators that tend to aim at the head but may wind up with the tail.    ...

Ultrasound Implant Safely Opens Blood–Brain Barrier

New method could help anticancer drugs reach brain tumors 

Where Will All the New Neuroscientists Go?

Leaders in the field highlight the need for new career paths to accommodate a flood of PhDs

Games for Better Brains [Video]

Action video games in which a player is called on to shoot zombies may provide greater cognitive benefits than do explicit brain-training methods

Bird Brains Have as Many Neurons as Some Primates

Densely packed brain cells help birds achieve surprisingly complex cognition in a tiny head space

Readers Respond to "In Search of the Optimal Brain Diet" and More

Letters about Scientific American Mind’s March/April 2016

The Amazing Teen Brain

A mismatch in the maturation of brain networks leaves adolescents open to risky behavior but also allows for leaps in cognition and adaptability

Brain Tune-Up from Action Video Game Play

Shooting zombies and repelling aliens can lead to lasting improvement in mental skills

Serious Brain Benefits from Computer Games

A preview by our editor in chief of the July 2016 issue of Scientific American

Neuroscientists Discover a New Way to Cross the Blood–Brain Barrier

The harmless virus could deliver medicine throughout the brain

Banking against Alzheimer’s

Research has provided a host of clues to age-proofing our brains and making them more resistant to dementia

From the Editor: Of Sound Mind and Body

Inside the July/August 2016 issue of Scientific American Mind

A New Look at Vision

A critical new discovery redefines the primary organizing principle of the visual cortex, and explains much of the illusory perception when we see light and dark stimuli

Obscure Disease May Offer Backdoor to New Treatments for Alzheimer's and Other Killers

Progressive supranuclear palsy has become a test bed for therapies aimed at the tau protein thought to be behind many devastating neurodegenerative disorders

The Science of Football: Which Positions Take the Hardest Hits?

University of Michigan researchers measure the intensity and number of impacts, along with their distribution over the players' bodies