Popular neuroscience books have made much in recent years of the possibility that the adult brain is capable of restoring lost function or even enhancing cognition through sustained mental or physical activities...
Molecular clues may reveal how to instantly reset the brain's clock
Implants to restore brain function lost to injury and disease win support from a defense agency
Sexual dysfunction can emerge when certain nerves start misfiring. Are SSRIs partially to blame?
Dangers lurk within the U.S.'s $12-billion self-help industry. Here is how to spot the warning signs
Cognitive neuroscientist Scott Weems talks about his book HA!: The Science of When We Laugh and Why
High levels of blood glucose are linked to memory impairments
Better detection by the brain could explain why low-pitched notes carry the beat across musical cultures
For some, it happens in the bathroom. For others, it's the living room. All across America, as fireworks go off on July 4th, many dogs experience varying degrees of fear and stress.
A study reverses our usual expectations about sensation and colors, with a twist
CHD8, a gene that regulates the structure of DNA, is the closest thing so far to an “autism gene”
Our brain may not be able to conceptualize time without a proper understanding of space
Editor’s note: Brain Basics from Scientific American Mind is a series of short video primers on the brain and how we feel, think and act. Below is a synopsis of the eighth video in the series written by a guest on this blog, Roni Jacobson, a science journalist based in New York City...
Paying attention requires more than focus
The following guest post is by Roy Rinberg, a graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va. and an incoming freshman at New York University. He is co-founder of Project Building Excitement for Science and Technology (BEST), an afterschool program for junior high school students...
One of humanity’s most precious resources is imagination. Our ability to overcome the constraints of the present environment and travel to distant places and hopeful futures all in the mind is a skill that is hugely neglected in today’s society...
Activating the gene with drugs such as lithium could prevent or slow cognitive decline
Columbia University start-up Neuroscout is developing a tool that would allow baseball and other sports teams to evaluate talent by examining players’ brain waves
Philosophers have debated for years whether we deliberately make each of the many decisions we make every day, or if our brain does it for us, on autopilot.
You can read the study itself here, plus a very comprehensive discussion of reactions to the study here. 1. If you intend to publish your research in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, you are expected to have conducted that research with the appropriate ethical oversight...
