Here at Scientific American, we develop lots of infographics about the brain. From classic neural pathway diagrams, depictions of medical breakthroughs, and maps of the brain’s genetic activity, there are as many solutions for visualizing the brain as there are questions about how it works...
New genome sequencing recommendation will enable patients to opt out of testing
// 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.
Despite what some critics say, brain imaging holds plenty of promise for real solutions to treating mental disorders
The first detailed maps of what our genes are doing inside our brains show how very different we are from mice and challenge a long-held theory of how our gray matter works
Scientists are charting the paths of individual neurons as well as the activity of individual genes
Based on humans' ability to discriminate between various close odors, researchers calculate that the average person can distinguish at least a trillion smells. Cynthia Graber reports
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One of the tragedies of aging is the slow but steady decline in memory. Phone numbers slipping your mind? Forgetting crucial items on your grocery list?
Long-term recordings of neural activity may help researchers understand the roots of depression and OCD
Researchers aim to detect Alzheimer symptoms long before they appear by tweaking an existing medical tool to sleuth out misfolded proteins linked with the illness
How the brain leads us to believe false truths
The U.S. BRAIN Initiative and European Human Brain Project research programs will begin collaborating later this year
Forty seconds before round two, and I'm lying on my back trying to breathe. Pain all through me. Deep breath. Let it go. I won't be able to lift my shoulder tomorrow, it won't heal for over a year, but now it pulses, alive, and I feel the air vibrating around me, the stadium shaking [...]..
People may use trust in science as others use religious faith to cope with life's uncertainties
Eating disorders may arise from faulty reward responses in the brain
The National Institute of Mental Health will no longer fund research aiming to relieve symptoms without probing underlying causes
Oxytocin reduces pleasure eating without interfering with normal hunger
Functional MRI of the listening brain found that different regions become active when listening to different types of music and instrumental versus vocals. Allie Wilkinson reports
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It takes more mutations to trigger autism in women than in men, which may explain why men are four times more likely to have the disorder
The NFL not only publicly denied evidence that long-term brain damage could result from concussions suffered by its players, but worked to undercut it
