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How Real-Time Brain Scanning Could Alleviate Pain

New imaging methods allow people to observe their brain activity in real-time. This technology could help combat brain-based disorders and improve learning

An Internal Sedative Could Help Treat Troubled Slumber

New insights into the relentless exhaustion suffered by people with a rare disorder may help treat several sleep conditions

Faulty Sleep Mechanism Might Cause Trauma to Linger

Traumatic memories persist when our nighttime memory-erasing process fails

What's Next for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine?

Scientists Decipher the Healing Powers of Placebos

Scientists are dissecting the placebo effect in hopes of deploying its active ingredients as treatments

Rewiring a Damaged Spinal Cord [Video]

New treatments leverage “neuroplasticity,” the nervous system’s innate ability to repair itself

Mirror Neurons Can Reflect Hatred

Mirror neurons distinguish between those we like and those we do not

Internal Clocks Tell Roosters It's Crow Time

Circadian rhythms tell fowl to crow at dawn, even if the birds can't see the sun come up. Sophie Bushwick reports

Neuroscience in Fiction: Nexus (Mankind Gets an Upgrade)

Serotonin Receptors Offer Clues to New Antidepressants

Long-sought specificity on the shapes of serotonin binding sites could aid in the discovery of new drugs to combat depression as well as in the study of consciousness

Old Drugs Find New Life as Brain Treatments

Olive Oil Fills Better Than Other Fats

Trial subjects who ate olive oil versus other kinds of fats felt fuller and had higher blood levels of serotonin. Christopher Intagliata reports

Let's Get Physical: The Psychology of Effective Workout Music

New research clarifies why music and exercise make such a good team, and how to create an optimal workout playlist

Neuroscience in Fiction: Exhalation , by Ted Chiang

, via Wikimedia Commons"] By Florian Thillmann (de:Benutzer:Flothi) (own work / selbst fotografiert) [CC-BY-SA-2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5) “ Once the preparations were complete, I was able to place each of my hands on a nest of knobs and levers and control a pair of manipulators situated behind my head, and use the periscope to see what they worked on...

Brain Researchers Can Detect Who We Are Thinking About

FMRI scans of volunteers' media prefrontal cortexes revealed unique brain activity patterns associated with individual characters or personalities as subjects thought about them

Split-Brain Patients Reveal Brain's Flexibility

MIND Reviews: The Brain Supremacy

Books and recommendations from Scientific American MIND

Placebos Work Better for Nice People

Agreeable personalities produce more of the brain's natural painkillers

Grotesque Mummy Head Reveals Advanced Medieval Science

Doctors in medieval Europe weren't as idle as it may seem, as a new analysis of the oldest-known preserved human dissection in Europe reveals

What’s Wrong with the Brain Activity Map Proposal

With the president suggesting a multibillion-dollar neuroscience effort, a leading neuroscientist explains the deep conceptual problems with plans to record all the brain's neurons