Health
Heavy Metal Headbanging Rare Risk Revealed
Headbanging can cause pain or even whiplash. But a 50-year-old Motörhead fan developed a more serious condition, bleeding in the brain that required surgical repair, after headbanging at a concert...
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Mind & Brain
Scientific Heretic Rupert Sheldrake on Morphic Fields, Psychic Dogs and Other Mysteries
For decades, I’ve been only dimly aware of Rupert Sheldrake as a renegade British biologist who argues that telepathy and other paranormal phenomena (sometimes lumped under the term psi) should be taken more seriously by the scientific establishment...
Mind & Brain
New Clues to Just How Much the Adult Brain Can Change
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...
Mind & Brain
New Drug Targets Promise to Treat Jet Lag
Molecular clues may reveal how to instantly reset the brain's clock
Mind & Brain
Memory-Saving Devices Snag $37.5 Million in Federal Funds
Implants to restore brain function lost to injury and disease win support from a defense agency
Neuroscience
When Arousal Is Agony
Sexual dysfunction can emerge when certain nerves start misfiring. Are SSRIs partially to blame?
Mind & Brain
How to Protect Yourself against Bad Self-Help
Dangers lurk within the U.S.'s $12-billion self-help industry. Here is how to spot the warning signs
Mind & Brain
What's So Funny?: The Science of Humor
Cognitive neuroscientist Scott Weems talks about his book HA!: The Science of When We Laugh and Why
Mind & Brain
Sugar May Harm Brain Health
High levels of blood glucose are linked to memory impairments
Mind & Brain
Rhythm Is Heard Best in the Bass
Better detection by the brain could explain why low-pitched notes carry the beat across musical cultures
Health
Fear and Anxiety May Shorten Dogs' Lifespan
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.
Mind & Brain
Red Objects Strangely Feel Cooler to the Touch Than Blue Ones
A study reverses our usual expectations about sensation and colors, with a twist
Mind & Brain
Genetic Mutation May Lead to Autism Subtype
CHD8, a gene that regulates the structure of DNA, is the closest thing so far to an “autism gene”
Mind & Brain
A Sense of Time Requires a Sense of Space
Our brain may not be able to conceptualize time without a proper understanding of space
Neuroscience
Multitask at Your Own Risk
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...
Mind & Brain
How the Brain Ignores Distractions
Paying attention requires more than focus
The Sciences
Jell-O Brains and DNA: High School Students Launch Innovative STEM Program
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...
Mind & Brain
Imagination Institute to Study How the Mind Conjures
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...
Mind & Brain
Protective Gene Staves Off Dementia
Activating the gene with drugs such as lithium could prevent or slow cognitive decline
Technology
“Neuro Scout” Gets into Batters’ Heads to Rate Hitters
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
