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5 Ways to Treat Chronic Pain

Several options exist for managing persistent aches, ranging from straightforward lifestyle changes to major surgery

Why We Need to Abandon the Disease-Model of Mental Health Care

The idea that our more distressing emotions such as grief and anger can best be understood as symptoms of physical illnesses is pervasive and seductive.

Learning About Your Family's Elevated Alzheimer's Risk—As Early As Age Eight

A Colombian university is providing regular workshops on brain basics and genetics to grade schoolers from families who face a high risk of developing Alzheimer's in the prime of life from a rare genetic mutation...

Biological Clocks Operate on Many Scales

Whether they're counting minutes, months or years, biological clocks help to keep our brains and bodies running on schedule

Depression Could Finally Get as Much Biomedical Attention as Cancer

Research into depression has struggled whereas studies of cancer have thrived. The balance could be shifting

Light-Sensitive Neurons Reveal the Brain's Secrets

By engineering brain cells to switch on or off in response to light, scientists are unlocking the mysteries of the mind and crafting new remedies for brain disorders

What Impact Will Emerging Technologies Have on Geopolitics?

The World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council meetings are going on this week in Dubai. More than 1000 experts (including Scientific American editor-in-chief Mariette DiChristina) have gathered to discuss big world problems such as climate change, poverty, water shortages, energy and innovation...

Resources to Help Your Child with ADHD Flourish

In my prior post (“The Creative Gifts of ADHD“), I argued that there are a heck of a lot of creative possibilities that remain dormant in children with ADHD due to the way we treat such children in an educational context...

"Vaping" Brain May Hold Clues to Smoking Addiction

British scientists say they have found the best way yet to analyze the effects of smoking on the brain -- by taking functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans of people while they puff on e-cigarettes...

This Robot Messes with Your Brain Until You Feel a “Ghostly Presence”

Scientists are now one step closer to understanding the biology behind visual and auditory hallucinations

10 Big Ideas in 10 Years of Brain Science

Scientific American MIND reflects on the major discoveries of the past decade that have transformed how we think about the brain

How the Brain Creates a Chronology of Consciousness

Several brain structures contribute to “mind time,” organizing our experiences into chronologies of remembered events

To Feel Meaningful Is To Feel Immortal

Imagine when our ancestors first started to look up at the stars and question their place in the universe. Why are we here? Are we alone? What happens to us when we die?

The Brain Upgrades We Covet Most

Technology is shaping our thinking about mental abilities and their improvement

Neuroscientists Break into the Brain to Expose Its Workings

The brain is a dazzlingly complex web of somewhere around 100 billion neurons, each of which communicates with others through thousands of connections.

Mental Leaps Cued by Memory’s Ripples

The same mental processes that organize memories may also coordinate how we make decisions

Next-Gen Sequencers Link 100-Plus Genes to Autism

Two new studies demonstrate the promise and pitfalls of the industrial-scale gene-processing technologies that define the meaning of the much-ballyhooed Big Data.

We Can Now Send Thoughts Directly between Brains

The dawn of human brain-to-brain communication has arrived

Searching for Signs of Consciousness

Brain Stimulation May Alleviate Severe Depression, but Full Recovery Takes Time

This blog is the last in a series of guest posts on technology and the brain to celebrate Scientific American Mind’s 10-year anniversary.